I've been putting up with slow upload on my Olympus C2020Z digital camera for over a year, but when I got a 32Mb card it was painfully slow - like watching paint dry. So I finally bought a Jessops USB Smartmedia Card Reader and it's great.
The installation on a Windows 98 PC is simple, the ... Read review
Advantages: Upload Speed, Increased Battery Life Disadvantages: None
I've been putting up with slow upload on my Olympus C2020Z digital camera for over a year, but when I got a 32Mb card it was painfully slow - like watching paint dry. So I finally bought a Jessops USB Smartmedia Card Reader and it's great.
The installation on a Windows 98 PC is simple, the card comes with a CD with the appropriate drivers, and has bundled Piccolo thumbnail software for viewing and sending files to Jessops over the ... .../>
The USB Card reader is powered via the USB port, and comes with an extension cable which makes it easy to connect to a desktop PC. Once installed and with a Smartmedia card inserted, it appears as a new removable drive. Piccolo will automatically catalogue all your pictures on your PC, and a thumbnail viewer will launch. I close them down and just use Windows Explorer to move the files to my Hard Drive, the transfer speed is very quick, ... more
I've been putting up with slow upload on my Olympus C2020Z digital camera for over a year, but when I got a 32Mb card it was painfully slow - like watching paint dry. So I finally bought a Jessops USB Smartmedia Card Reader and it's great.
The installation on a Windows 98 PC is simple, the card comes with a CD with the appropriate drivers, and has bundled Piccolo thumbnail software for viewing and sending files to Jessops over the internet for printing, though I've not tried that service yet.
The USB Card reader is powered via the USB port, and comes with an extension cable which makes it easy to connect to a desktop PC. Once installed and with a Smartmedia card inserted, it appears as a new removable drive. Piccolo will automatically catalogue all your pictures on your PC, and a thumbnail viewer will launch. I close them down and just use Windows Explorer to move the files to my Hard Drive, the transfer speed is very quick, less than a couple of minutes for a full 32Mb card.
Because you're reading the card outside of the camera, the camera battery life is much better. I now get over 200 shots per charge of my NiMH AA batteries. You can also write pictures onto the smartmedia card as well as read them and you can delete the pictures on the card when you've uploaded.
Advantages: Fast, effecient and easy to use Disadvantages: none
Having owned a digital camera for 6 months I got heartily sick and tired of waiting for images to download through the serial port of my computer. I therefore decided to invest in a smart card reader from Jenoptik. I bought one direct from the web and paid £27 for a USB reader. It was one of the best investments I have made. Being USB it requires no power source and sits nicely on top of my monitor. The downloads speeds are almost instantaneous and ...
maccer01 21.12.2000
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Advantages: Super Fast Download Disadvantages: None
...a digital camera then a memory card reader may help you. You remove the card from your camera if it has removable media and insert into the card reader. You can buy USB or Parallel connecting raeders and for most opperating systems. They show up on your computer as a new drive letter and the one i have is a Card Port Swift Syncro and is great. It has 2 slots one for PCMCIA and one for Smart Media. Comapact Flash is read in the PCMCIA slot with han ...
Alexmouse 18.12.2000 (13.12.2000)
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