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Compact Flash card reader for the iPad. A Mini-review
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 1376319" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>Another update:</p><p></p><p>Sent the CF adapter back to Amazon yesterday. After having used it for a week in California, it turned out to be a huge disappointment. The main problem with it is that it works, then doesn't work. Then it works, and then doesn't work again. All this in one session. In other words, you hook it up and start the transfer. At first, things seem to be going fine and then out of nowhere, it disconnects its self. After a few seconds, it reconnects and you then have the option to either import all and skip duplicates, or choose the ones which didn't import the first time. </p><p></p><p>The problem with the first method, is that you likely skipped over some from the first batch, and this leaves you with having to manually select photos from god knows how many. To make things more clear, the import all feature wouldn't be such a bad thing, if not for the lack of flexibility of iCloud. As you all know, you don't have a choice of what you can keep or save in Photostream, which makes things a bit complicated and also wastes time and cloud space. </p><p></p><p>Besides all of that, this problem happened on a constant basis with this CF card adapter, and I found myself resorting to using the original iPad camera connection kit, hooking up my camera directly. I really didn't want to resort to doing this, but I was in the hotel, so charging my camera battery wasn't a problem. Were I on the go however, I'd be reluctant to use that method. </p><p></p><p>Furthermore, I have a feeling that utilizing photostream with this card, had something to do with the iPad winding up with 6.4 gigs of unwanted "other" data, which pretty much forced me to keep all of the NEF files on my CF cards. Luckily, I was shooting mostly jpegs (as an experiment, since the iPad is only 16 gigs). </p><p></p><p>So I guess that my suggestion would be to stay away from this particular CF card adapter, at least for the D300, anyway. I'm going to be ordering a different model, from <a href="http://store.micgadget.com/card-readers/280-ipad-2-cf-card-camera-connection-kit.html" target="_blank">Here</a></p><p></p><p>To be honest, I can't wait until I purchase a new camera with SD card capabilities. I'll likely relegate the D300 to studio work only, and get a very good new mirrorless system for street shooting and vacations. But with so many new mirrorless cameras on the horizon, it will be a bit until one proves to be solid in the market. </p><p></p><p>TA!</p><p></p><p>Doug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 1376319, member: 59143"] Another update: Sent the CF adapter back to Amazon yesterday. After having used it for a week in California, it turned out to be a huge disappointment. The main problem with it is that it works, then doesn't work. Then it works, and then doesn't work again. All this in one session. In other words, you hook it up and start the transfer. At first, things seem to be going fine and then out of nowhere, it disconnects its self. After a few seconds, it reconnects and you then have the option to either import all and skip duplicates, or choose the ones which didn't import the first time. The problem with the first method, is that you likely skipped over some from the first batch, and this leaves you with having to manually select photos from god knows how many. To make things more clear, the import all feature wouldn't be such a bad thing, if not for the lack of flexibility of iCloud. As you all know, you don't have a choice of what you can keep or save in Photostream, which makes things a bit complicated and also wastes time and cloud space. Besides all of that, this problem happened on a constant basis with this CF card adapter, and I found myself resorting to using the original iPad camera connection kit, hooking up my camera directly. I really didn't want to resort to doing this, but I was in the hotel, so charging my camera battery wasn't a problem. Were I on the go however, I'd be reluctant to use that method. Furthermore, I have a feeling that utilizing photostream with this card, had something to do with the iPad winding up with 6.4 gigs of unwanted "other" data, which pretty much forced me to keep all of the NEF files on my CF cards. Luckily, I was shooting mostly jpegs (as an experiment, since the iPad is only 16 gigs). So I guess that my suggestion would be to stay away from this particular CF card adapter, at least for the D300, anyway. I'm going to be ordering a different model, from [URL="http://store.micgadget.com/card-readers/280-ipad-2-cf-card-camera-connection-kit.html"]Here[/URL] To be honest, I can't wait until I purchase a new camera with SD card capabilities. I'll likely relegate the D300 to studio work only, and get a very good new mirrorless system for street shooting and vacations. But with so many new mirrorless cameras on the horizon, it will be a bit until one proves to be solid in the market. TA! Doug [/QUOTE]
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