Transferring files from D60- direct from camera or from USB reader ?

Hi,

Has anyone benchmarked the USB read performance from the camera, when downloading pictures. I get about 0.24 Mbytes/sec with my Sandisk 256M CF card.

The USB interface ( at the camera) seems to be somewhat difficult to remove. I am wondering if it is better to just yank the CF card out, stick in a reader and access images that way.

BTW, at D60 resolutions, Canon should really have supported USB2.0. It would have made a huge difference in download times

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Srinivas Chennupaty KC7FSY

I haven't benchmarked mine, other than noting that it appeared to comparatively slow. I only used it once. Then, I noted that the cable wouldn't come out.

I've never seen this before on other USB cables, but the Canon cable has a button that locks it into the camera, and you have to push it firmly to release. See page 2-3 of your Canon Software manual for a picture. Nowhere did I see text pointing this out, and I didn't expect it.

Anyway, I always pop the CF card out of the camera and use a USB card reader (mine is by Kingston).

Srinivas Chennupaty said:

Hi,
Has anyone benchmarked the USB read performance from the camera,
when downloading pictures. I get about 0.24 Mbytes/sec with my
Sandisk 256M CF card.

The USB interface ( at the camera) seems to be somewhat difficult
to remove. I am wondering if it is better to just yank the CF card
out, stick in a reader and access images that way.

BTW, at D60 resolutions, Canon should really have supported USB2.0.
It would have made a huge difference in download times

--
Srinivas Chennupaty KC7FSY

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Srinivas

I always take the CF card out of the camera and put it into a Microtech firewire CF CARD READER. It transfers at an extremely high rate, 4 to 5 times faster than a USB CF card reader. This is the best solution so far as firewire is a very fast high speed port. I never transfer images form the camera as i found it is much to slow.

Critter1 said:

I've never seen this before on other USB cables, but the Canon
cable has a button that locks it into the camera, and you have to
push it firmly to release. See page 2-3 of your Canon Software
manual for a picture. Nowhere did I see text pointing this out,
and I didn't expect it.

Anyway, I always pop the CF card out of the camera and use a USB
card reader (mine is by Kingston).

Srinivas Chennupaty said:

Hi,
Has anyone benchmarked the USB read performance from the camera,
when downloading pictures. I get about 0.24 Mbytes/sec with my
Sandisk 256M CF card.

The USB interface ( at the camera) seems to be somewhat difficult
to remove. I am wondering if it is better to just yank the CF card
out, stick in a reader and access images that way.

BTW, at D60 resolutions, Canon should really have supported USB2.0.
It would have made a huge difference in download times

--
Srinivas Chennupaty KC7FSY

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Jim Allen