"Aughenbaugh, W" wrote:
> 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.
I would think the CoolPix series Nikons would be robust enough to handle
repeated removal and insertion of cards. But perhaps not at the abusive level
of newspaper usage.
Good point. Anyway, just wanted to add my 2-cents worth.
And I am not sure how fast downloading would be via the USB connection.
We were issued two DCS-520 camera bodies and lenses to go with them.
Two flashes, and bunch of other stuff. By the time they were done it cost close
to $40,000 for each photog. (There were two of us who got to be the guinea
pigs.)
The cameras were around $14,000 each - a year later, better ones were less then
half.
Yikes !
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