I really don't think that camera manufacturers see that as a problem.
USB 1.0 is fast enough to control the camera with software and I don't
think that they see anyone with their professional camera tying it up
doing a download or not using a card reader.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Moose wrote:
> This is the one thing that makes no sense to me. Why cripple the camera
> this way? I realize they have to differentiate from the E-1, but
> setting
> it up so buyers will be frustrated with slow downloads seems foolish to
> me. This seems to me to be a camera perfectly positioned to pull people
> up from the 8mp prosumer fixed lens cameras. USB 2.0 would be a selling
> point for those folks. The Sony 828 already has it. Oh well, maybe
> everybody will have a new PC with built in card readers.
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