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Subject: 
SmartMedia was Re: Bullet Train
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:19:26 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> > it had a bigger zoom ratio. The way you unload pictures is well thought out
> > but 115kbps makes for a slow process, it takes 30 min or so (and most of a
> > battery charge) for a full unload. This makes it somewhat impractical to
> > unload if both the PC and the camera are on batteries at the time unless
> > both are fully charged or close...
> 
> Yeah, this is why having a PCMCIA slot is so nice -- takes like 10 seconds
> to copy everything off of a 32MB card. Compact flash is cool because it is
> electronically exactly PCMCIA -- all you need is a cheap physical adapter.

Hmm, SmartMedia is a little slower. I just got a Zio SmartMedia adapter with a
USB connector, because USB off the Olympus is not exactly blazing fast (unless
you contrast your serial speed...) It took 1 minute to *write* 16mb to the card
(Mac OS 9), and took about 30 seconds to read it off the card.

Browsing, deleting, and renaming individual photos from the card device was
painless.

-Erik



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  Re: Bullet Train
 
(...) Yeah, this is why having a PCMCIA slot is so nice -- takes like 10 seconds to copy everything off of a 32MB card. Compact flash is cool because it is electronically exactly PCMCIA -- all you need is a cheap physical adapter. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)

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