I tried the Media Reader and returned it. It took 25 minutes to read a
Lexar 512MB CF card for me and the battery in the iPod was all but
flat. Too slow for me and now that I am using 1 GB cards I don't think
the transfer would complete. I am happy to keep just my music
collection on the iPod.
The more I thought about it the more I think that specialized devices
are the best here. A combo player/image tank device usually is too big
and its controls to clunky to make a good music player. And if you drop
one because you are handling it constantly you not only lose the tunes
which have a backup at home, but you lose all the pictures you have
loaded onto it from your camera which are not backed up anywhere. I
want the device with my pictures nicely padded in the middle of my
carryon bag.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Jun 6, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Garth Wood wrote:
>
> When I went to Hawai'i in late March/early April I used an iPod with a
> Belkin CF Media Reader. *Very* compact, albeit slow: it takes the
> Belkin reader approx. 11.5 minutes to dump the contents of one 256
> MByte CF card to the iPod, during which time the iPod's HD is spinning
> constantly -- a real battery drainer! The iPod's batteries were only
> good for four to five 256 MByte CF cards before the iPod needed to be
> recharged, but even with RAW image capture, that still represented
> about 250 images you could safely capture, review on-camera and then
> save per day. That's a lot!
>
> And of course, we could use the iPod for other things, like carrying
> massive amounts of tunes which we could replay through the rental
> car's FM radio with a little $50.00 FM transmitter thingy which popped
> into the top of the iPod. All in all, a reasonably elegant setup.
> And your images survive the x-ray machines o' deth without your
> breaking into a sweat or making a scene at security checkpoints.
> Always a good thing, seeing as how there were an awful lot of earnest
> young men in the background of most airports, trigger fingers ready on
> automatic weapons.
>
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