Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2006-03-25-11:32:23 Douglas Herr: > I've made a few exposures (of the R8 I'm selling, looks like it's sold) and > I can review the pics on the DMR - but lacking a separate card reader how > do > I copy the files to the computer? My possibly-unhelpful answer is... get that separate card reader now. I've had so many problems with cameras and their plug-the-camera-in-to-the-computer modes and the weird, buggy special software often needed to control the transfers that I never even tried that route with my shinyish newish DMR. Stuffing the cards into an external reader works perfectly, as it has for Canons and an Epson. If you can find a reader for SD/MM cards with a firewire interface, especially if you have a Mac, go for that versus a USB 2.0 one, even though USB 2.0 may seem to be just as good or slightly better on paper. For some reason (intrinsic communication or driver overhead? driver maturity/tuning?) Firewire seems to be snappier and more reliable, in my completely anecdotal experience with Macs and external thingummies. -Jeff M