xpatUSA wrote:
Dark slide wrote:
I've never used a card reader and not had a problem till yesterday with file transfer. The SD1M manual (p126) describes how to connect the supplied USB to a computer.
You might be missing the point of using a card-reader.
The less involved Sigma software is in transferring your precious image data from the camera to the computer the better - by which I mean the in-camera firmware and whatever version of SPP you're using.
But, if you really, really trust Sigma's programmers, by all means go ahead and the best of luck!
And then there's the fact that the card reads so slowly. In my USB 3 card reader a fast CF card is almost like having an external hard drive plugged into the computer. In the SD1 Merrill, the files come out of the CF card at less than 1/4 of the speed, like when I plug in my CF cards into my 15 year old USB 1 CF card reader. It's just so lethargic. I decided to do a test. Unfortunately I can't show you the results, because while I have plenty of old mini-USB cables (my oldest external hard drives, an old Canon camera, my rechargeable flashlight and rechargeable tail light for my bike, and my two old memory card readers use those), micro-USB cables (some of my old cell phones and battery chargers use those), and USB 3 cables (my new memory card reader, SD Quattro H, and external hard drives use those), I can't find one of those weird cables that Sigma decided to use for the SD1 Merrill. I think my Olympus point-and-shoot used one of those weird cables too. Why did they do that?!?
I'm going to be really happy when the day finally comes that every device has a USB-C plug and only requires a USB-C cable (phones, cameras, battery chargers, card readers, etc.).