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Hi all,

I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.

I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
in and upload my images to it?

Many thanks

PeterH

Hi Peter,

I just found a useful ability for my Canon G1, it came with RemoteCapture
2.7 software, this allows me to setup the camera connected to my computer
and my computer can control the camera, and save the images direct to my HD.
Since I am doing cataloging work, it saves the step of transferring to the
computer, AND I have 10k of images I can take on my HD with only 5 gb left!
So you could use your USB drive that way too.

Ben

Of course, the G2-5 probably do even more with that connection, e.g. with
the G2 you can see through the viewfinder (LCD) before taking the shot.

"PeterH" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
> digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
> pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.
>
> I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
> increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
> is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
> in and upload my images to it?
>
> Many thanks
>
> PeterH
>

"Ben" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Peter,
>
> I just found a useful ability for my Canon G1, it came with RemoteCapture
> 2.7 software, this allows me to setup the camera connected to my computer
> and my computer can control the camera, and save the images direct to my
HD.


Any kind of Remote Capture available for the Oly C5050?

WebKatz <> wrote:

>"Ben" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I just found a useful ability for my Canon G1, it came with RemoteCapture
>> 2.7 software, this allows me to setup the camera connected to my computer
>> and my computer can control the camera, and save the images direct to my
>HD.


>Any kind of Remote Capture available for the Oly C5050?

Try www.gphoto.org
Olympus C5050Z is listed as supported.

Ben <> wrote:
>Hi Peter,

>I just found a useful ability for my Canon G1, it came with RemoteCapture
>2.7 software, this allows me to setup the camera connected to my computer
>and my computer can control the camera, and save the images direct to my HD.
>Since I am doing cataloging work, it saves the step of transferring to the
>computer, AND I have 10k of images I can take on my HD with only 5 gb left!
>So you could use your USB drive that way too.

The camera is likely to act as a usb 'device' rather than a master. Meaning it
takes commands and executes them. And won't give them..
So unless your camera has some special usb 'master' mode. It's not likely to
be able to use any usb drives. And don't think any other camera will do
anything similar either.

If you really want to use an usb drive. Then you would need to construct a
small computer with two usb ports. One for the camera and one for the usb
drive. The computer would then need to activly move pictures (files) from the
camera to the usb drive. As most cameras won't send commands the usb bus.

Another approach is to have an IDE interface instead of the second usb port
in which you could save it on a harddisc in the field..

/P

PeterH wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
> digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
> pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.
>
> I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
> increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
> is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
> in and upload my images to it?

No. This won't work since the camera does not have the capability to
act as a "host" to your USB flash drive.

Besides, since a 256MB compact flash card costs about 1/2 to 2/3 what
the 256MB USB Flash drive you would be better off simply buying an extra
Compact flash card for your camera.

In article < >,
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> Hi all,
>
> I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
> digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
> pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.
>
> I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
> increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
> is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
> in and upload my images to it?
>
> Many thanks
>
> PeterH
>

No it won't for many reasons. First of all, the camera doesn't know how
to write to the drive. Second, it would be physically impossible to plug
the drive into the camera. Third, 256 meg CF cards can be had for about
$40 so why is this even an issue?

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"PeterH" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
> digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
> pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.
>
> I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
> increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
> is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
> in and upload my images to it?
>
I don't think you'll be able to use it without an intermediate computer. I
tried the same sort of thing with an iPod and that didn't work. You need
some kind of software to enable the flashdrive to recognise what you are
putting there.

Todd Walker <> wrote in message news:<>...
> In article < >,
> says...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a 256mb usb flash drive and am thinking of purchasing a
> > digital camera. The camera needs to take lots of very high quality
> > pictures so running out of memory would be a major issue.
> >
> > I know cameras use all sorts of strange and incompatible cards to
> > increase their memory. Seems a pity to waste my flash drive though -
> > is there any camera available where I could just plug my flash drive
> > in and upload my images to it?
>
> No it won't for many reasons. First of all, the camera doesn't know how
> to write to the drive. Second, it would be physically impossible to plug
> the drive into the camera. Third, 256 meg CF cards can be had for about
> $40 so why is this even an issue?

You have a point, the cards are (relatively) cheap. But like I said,
as I've got one form of flash storage already it seems wasteful to
have to go and buy another sort.

I do recall that way back when, digital cameras came with a built in
3.5in disk drive, which wrote msdos disks. If they could figure out
how do that, where's the difficulty in writing to a USB flash drive?


...PeterH

In article < >,
says...
> I do recall that way back when, digital cameras came with a built in
> 3.5in disk drive, which wrote msdos disks. If they could figure out
> how do that, where's the difficulty in writing to a USB flash drive?
>

I'm sure if the manufacturers had any reason to do this, it wouldn't be
a problem. But it's a stupid thing to do for many reasons:

1. I would rather have a card INSIDE the camera than a thumb drive
sticking out the side of it

2. The full size USB connector that would have to be on the camera is
much larger than the mini connectors that are on cameras now

3. Thumb drives are considerably more expensive than CF storage

You are asking to be able to do something that is inferior to the
current system.

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Todd Walker
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My Digital Photography Weblog:
http://twalker.d2g.com/dpblog.htm
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