Downloading the raw files at GFM this spring took about 20 minutes per card, on
the mac
usb2. Nico lent me his firewire
card reader and that time went down to about 90 seconds.
I'm looking for one to.
<g>
Dave
> 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_Slots/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.
>
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