I'm looking for a new multi-format card reader. My needs are CF & SDHC. There's a million of them out there but I'm specifically looking for something that's as small as possible to travel with. The idea being, come back from a day's shooting and dump the cards to a laptop. Anyone happen to come across anything that fits the bill?

BTW - Hooking the cameras up directly as removable storage is the backup plan.

 

If you have an ipod, you can use it, just have to get the right set up. Check out this thread for more ideas...https://acurazine.com/forums/cameras-photography-44/portable-storage-359770/

As cheap a memory is, you may just want to buy more cards.

 

I thought about the iPod route but my new phone is a music player so the iPod will most likely be staying at home when I travel. Plus I still wouldn't be able to burn the images to disk like I will when I have the laptop with. Additional memory cards still leave the images in one place. As you can probably tell, that's one of the main things I'm trying to avoid.

 

I am interested in something too, I have a generic (MTG) card reader that I bought and it is crap. Recently it hasn't been able to read some of the images and one time it said the card wasn't even formated, but when I plug my camera in with the USB cables everything works. I have the feeling I will be going with something name brand now SanDisk or the like, possibly something from Crucial, I always feel like they have good stuff and at a good price.

 

Billiam, not sure if this is a little large, but I went ahead and ordered this:

http://www.provantage.com/sandisk-sd...5~7SNDK26X.htm

 

For CF I carry this... http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Verbatim...t-Reader-94617

It is nice and small and fits well in a pocket.

Cant help you on the SD side of things.

 

Oooohhhh. Found something...
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/...adapter_review


n/m SD not SDHC

 

How small do you need it to be? I'm also looking for one - mainly for CF since the laptop has an SD/xD slot. So far, I have found:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820308010
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820163408 (Has USB Ports, as well - but one review said that xD is not supported)

 

Those are both definitely bigger than I'm looking for. I basically want something that I don't have to "plan around" when loading/unloading the camera or computer bag. See my post over in Srika's CF card help thread for a possible alternative. This size difference doesn't seem like much but it's the plethora of little things that tend to get irritating when it comes to bag contents. At least for me anyway.

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