Digital cameras with USB memory

(spasmous) writes:

Is any manufacturer making a camera that stores data on standard USB
memory stick? That's be very handy, since you could detach it from the
camera and insert it in any computer. And maybe store other files on
it too.

I know sony has their own memory stick that you can use on Sony
laptops, but unless you're all in with Sony products, it's not
particularly useful.

Just buy a cheap media reader for the type of media your camera uses. Then you
can put it in the computer, and use it as a removable disk drive. I have used
my smartmedia cards to carry information this was in the past. In fact, if you
pry open some of the USB flash drives, you will see they are really a see that
they are a standard media (probably SD) and a media reader. With many cameras,
you can connect them directly to the computer and use them as USB mass storage
devices.

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org

(spasmous) writes:

Is any manufacturer making a camera that stores data on standard USB
memory stick? That's be very handy, since you could detach it from the
camera and insert it in any computer. And maybe store other files on
it too.

I know sony has their own memory stick that you can use on Sony
laptops, but unless you're all in with Sony products, it's not
particularly useful.

Just buy a cheap media reader for the type of media your camera uses. Then you
can put it in the computer, and use it as a removable disk drive. I have used
my smartmedia cards to carry information this was in the past. In fact, if you
pry open some of the USB flash drives, you will see they are really a see that
they are a standard media (probably SD) and a media reader. With many cameras,
you can connect them directly to the computer and use them as USB mass storage
devices.

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org

(spasmous) writes:

Is any manufacturer making a camera that stores data on standard USB
memory stick? That's be very handy, since you could detach it from the
camera and insert it in any computer. And maybe store other files on
it too.

I know sony has their own memory stick that you can use on Sony
laptops, but unless you're all in with Sony products, it's not
particularly useful.

Just buy a cheap media reader for the type of media your camera uses. Then you
can put it in the computer, and use it as a removable disk drive. I have used
my smartmedia cards to carry information this was in the past. In fact, if you
pry open some of the USB flash drives, you will see they are really a see that
they are a standard media (probably SD) and a media reader. With many cameras,
you can connect them directly to the computer and use them as USB mass storage
devices.

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org

Michael Meissner wrote in
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Just buy a cheap media reader for the type of media your camera uses.
Then you can put it in the computer, and use it as a removable disk
drive. I have used my smartmedia cards to carry information this was
in the past. In fact, if you pry open some of the USB flash drives,
you will see they are really a see that they are a standard media
(probably SD) and a media reader. With many cameras, you can connect
them directly to the computer and use them as USB mass storage
devices.


Yepp - thats what I have done. The (very small) media reader
plus my old 16 MByte flash card now doubles as a 16 MB
USB memory stick.


/Roland

no one really does this since the USB on the cameras are all "slave" devices
which require a master somewhere in the system (usually the PC)

The slave cannot initiate transfers so a USB flash disk (slave) would have
to have a master in the camera to work.

With the USB "On-the-Go" specification devices can be both masters and
slaves, but I don't know of any cameras that implement this.


"spasmous" wrote in message
om...
Is any manufacturer making a camera that stores data on standard USB
memory stick? That's be very handy, since you could detach it from the
camera and insert it in any computer. And maybe store other files on
it too.

I know sony has their own memory stick that you can use on Sony
laptops, but unless you're all in with Sony products, it's not
particularly useful.