At those transfer rates, using an IPod would be very painful and not usable for me - I have events where the card needs to be used again in 10-15 minutes. My CompactDrive transfers a gigabyte in a few minutes. And it will transfer at least 10 gigabytes per battery charge.
Thanks for the report, it helps to know real world experiences with equipment. Seems the IPod would do in a pinch, but certainly not a day in - day out device. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, December 5, 2005, 10:41:55 PM, you wrote: JPS> As I just mentioned, I went to Kenya and Tanzania for a month... JPS> The gear that I brought with me was: JPS> Pentax *ist DS JPS> 2 1G SD cards JPS> Many AA rechargeables, 2 sets of disposable CRV3s JPS> A-50 f1.4 JPS> Tamron 70-300 JPS> 18-55 JPS> 30G iPod video JPS> The iPod worked well enough, but it has 2 fatal flaws JPS> 1 - the battery is only good for writing about 800MB.. and that takes JPS> about 30 minutes. Still, with car and universal chargers, and 2 SD JPS> cards, I could shoot all day and transfer to the iPod at night. JPS> 2 - you have to transfer an entire roll of photos, then immediately JPS> delete them from the card. The iPod isn't smart enough to know that it JPS> is already storing a photo. JPS> The damn thing scared the crap out of me on a few occaisions (when wall JPS> power was bad, temperature was high, or ?) by either crashing, claiming JPS> that _it_ held no photos, or claiming that the camera was empty. JPS> Resetting the iPod and/or allowing it to cool fixed the problem every JPS> time, but the first couple times this happened I was a little tense. JPS> I was concerned that the camera's battery would be run down by JPS> transferring directly from the camera to the iPod, but with AA JPS> rechargables, it wasn't really an issue. JPS> Would I recommend using an iPod for a similar trip? Maybe, but an JPS> external battery with a dock connector, camera connector or card reader JPS> would be preferable to the apple iPod Camera Connector. JPS> http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M9861G/A JPS> JP
