Thanks for the info. I just ordered one. I've been using a firewire card reader with my CF cards for quite a while. You're right. It's very fast. So I will want one when I go to SD cards as well. Plus, I could use a second one for work right now. Good buy on what sounds like a good product. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well I finally decided that I needed to speed up my memory card > downloading - especially with an eye toward a couple of jobs coming up > - so I decided to look into getting an IEEE1394 card reader. And with > the prospect of the new K10D and SD cards (grrrr...) in the near > future, a multi-format, or at least CF and SD, reader seemed the way > to go. Surprisingly enough, there aren't a lot of them around. > I ended up ordering an Addonics AESDMD2FW "Mini Digidrive". > It arrived yesterday and though I don't have another Firewire card > reader with which to compare it, I can certainly tell that it's much > faster than my current USB2 card reader. (Over twice as fast, which > leads me to suspect that my old card reader isn't operating at full > USB2 speed, but that's another story...) > > Here's the buy.com link for this item: > http://www.buy.com/prod/Addonics_Mini_Digidrive_7_In_1_Flash_Reader_Firewire_2_S > lots/q/loc/101/10341066.html > They aren't kidding when they say that this item sells out quickly: I > went through a lot of on line shops and couldn't find *any* that had > it when I originally ordered it. It was back-ordered about a week > before it shipped. > > -- > Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > 412-687-2835 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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