Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Delkin's SD to CF Adaptor: It Works Like it Should
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 08:00 AM
If you've got a DSLR that's in the prosumer or professional range, odds are that it uses CompactFlash memory cards. While we're starting to see prosumer/professional DSLRs supporting Secure Digital (SD) cards - the D300s has both CF and SD card slots - by and large most of these cameras only support CompactFlash. This leaves laptop users in a quandary: how do you get your images off that CompactFlash card? Sure you, could bring the cable for your camera and move it off that way - but that requires you bring the cable with you, and your camera batteries are draining while that transfer happens. Not ideal. You could bring a USB-based memory card reader with you, but it's one more thing to forget to bring with you. If your laptop has an ExpressCard54 slot, you could use a Delkin ExpressCard CompactFlash Adaptor like I do, but an increasing number of laptops are dropping ExpressCard slots entirely, or going for the narrower ExpressCard34 slots. Delkin has an adaptor for the ExpressCard34 slot, but it sticks out so you can't leave it in all the time. So what do you do? You switch to shooting onto an SD card using the Delkin SD to CF Adaptor that's what. I bought one from Amazon.com [affiliate] for $24.95 USD and wanted to share my experiences using it. Read more...