Don't seem to go together. I can read from the camera just fine; but the card reader doesn't want to register with my Mac. Any ideas?
Have you tried it with any other cards since the 8GB was in? Is there a bent pin? Can't think of any reason why an 8GB wouldn't be read by the CF reader-unless the firmware of the card reader is balky or poorly programmed... Try a Lexar or Sandisk current model.... Michael
The reader's fine with 4 Gbyte cards, so I didn't bend a pin, which I have done more than once. The reader's getting old and has no branding on it: a 6 in 1 China-made special from Office Depot. The Mac G5 sees it, but won't mount it from the reader. So I'm guessing that the reader is giving the G5 an invalid mount point. I sure like having an estimated 3,200 fine jpegs on one card with a 150x read speed. Question, Michael: does downloading from the camera use a lot of the camera's battery power? I've almost never downloaded from the camera itself, having packed card readers since the beginning.
Honestly, it depends on the camera. In reality, I always recommend using a reader since all electronics have a finite lifespan. Why use up some of that life by using the camera as a card reader? Michael
Also a problem I've found is the download speed of some cameras exceeds the auto cut-off timer of 1 or 2 minutes especially the larger chips.
To me it sounds more like you have exceeded the capacity of the camera and while it continues to read and write to the card it does this in a way that is no longer compatable with your operating system. I would check for firmware upgrades to your camera instead. Many cameras have this issue. The difference is that most can not even write or read to these high capacity cards. Personally I prefer to stick to smaller cards around 2 GB so if I have a card failure I will not lose 3,200 images! This is on a Canon 1dMk2 so 8 GB wouldn't be a problem for me.
I always download at the end of a day to avoid that. I think the camera's fine; it's just an older card reader. Also, I always use two cameras, and three lenses. The three lenses get swapped between cameras. Yes, I might lose the best shot of a scene, but I would have something to cover it. And my wife has a third camera, albeit a point-and-shoot. As I've mentioned before, I was surprized the D70 was a better camera than the D100. I have to take that back; when you know how to use the D100 there's not much difference. It just took me a while to learn how to use the D100 to its best capabilities.
I also now have a brand new Mac laptop, which solves all my storage problems. It's powerful enough to do Photoshop pretty well. I haven't tried it with my actual photos yet, but it seems pretty competent.
Great to hear you have a new Mac. I'm planning to buy a Mac Desktop after my current contract ends. Funny though I thought the card reader really was just the mechanics and it was up to the software on both ends that made the thing work.
I tried using a multi card reader / USB hub on my mac and it wanted to initalize the card every time I tried to download from it even though I could download from the exact same card when it was in the camera. I ended up trying a simple 2 slot USB card reader and it worked like a charm?
The new Macbook is a neat machine. I'm traveling a lot for ConnectPress, which publishes nine E-zines, so they bought me one. First Mac in the company, and now everyone's pretty amazed. I basically turned it on, loaded up the software and was off and running. I still prefer my early G5 for Photoshop, as it's loaded with memory and thus still faster.
