On Friday, July 27, 2001 8:46 AM, Alan Kim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
-----Original Message-----
Just something to think about.....I would like to suggest an external reader
instead of downloading pics off the camera.
I used to shoot for a regional newspaper and we used card readers instead of
using the camera firewire port. I know it's all electronics but there was a
feeling that it would be less wear/tear on the camera if the card was
removed
and downloaded through a reader.
<SNIP>
-----Reply Message-----
It's amazing how perceptions differ. At least on the CoolPix, the CF card
cover is a neoprene molded flap. I would think just the opposite, the CF
card with its many (tiny) connector sockets and the CF reader with its many
(tiny) connector pins would seem to me to be at greater risk of damage than
the USB or FireWire connector. The repeated flexing of the rubber hinge
(opening and closing the CF card cover) on the camera and the constant
insertion/removal of the CF card (2 cycles per transfer) are bound to be
hard on the card and the camera. (The reader is cheap enough to not matter,
but the camera is expensive and the card holds irreplaceable images.)
Your newspaper must have bought expensive cameras, I haven't seen a consumer
camera with a FireWire port.
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