Hi Godders, Are there any firewire 800 readers that you're aware of? Paul On Jul 11, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> Which iBook do you have? Not all of them have USB 2.0 ports. You can > find out by opening System Profiler, click on USB in the Hardware > section, and then look to see if you have anything with a USB High > Speed Bus attached. It should show 480 Mbits/sec. > > Even that doesn't necessarily mean you'll have fast throughput ... > readers are not all equal. Two of the supposedly-full-USB 2.0 card > readers I bought could not move data faster than 2.5Mbytes/second > (that's roughly [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The Sandisk Imagemate 12-in-1 moves > data from a Sandisk Ultra II CF card at roughly 7.5-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (call it roughly 60-65 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which means a full 1G card will > download in about 135 seconds. My Lexar CF FireWire 400 reader runs > about the same speed. > > Godfrey > > > On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
