Author: Tim Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] USB mass storage device camera
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 19:57:36 James Ogden wrote: > 2008/4/29 Stephen Davies <stephen.davies@???>:
> > The simple reason is that the battery drain during this file transfer can
> > be quite horrific. This can be very important with Point & Shoot Cameras
> > where sometimes the battery has a pretty small capacity(watts).
>
> <pedant>
> You mean J (or mAh if you must)
> </pedant>
>
> > It is far better to remove the media card and plug it into the computer
> > using one of the many chap CF/SD adapters.
> >
> > This way, you can be taking more piccies while the other one is having
> > its contents copied to the computer.
>
> I find that I'm only worried about reading the pictures when I'm done
> taking them - I'm really unlikely to fill 2G in a single trip (unless
> it's a _proper_ holiday. The supplied USB lead works really well for
> me (the battery load doesn't seem to have a significant effect)
>
> That said, my last camera would take 40 photos _or_ copy 40 photos to
> the computer on a single set of batteries. I moved the card around
> for that one.
>
> James
Well I took over 800 pictures over three days and that included some flash and
downloading them to the laptop and never had a problem with the battery, but
then I do have two rechargables in my Canon 400D :)
