Microtech CameraMate Card Reader (FW-CF) Card Readers and Adapters

Microtech CameraMate Card Reader (FW-CF) Card Readers and Adapters 

DESCRIPTION

Building upon Microtech's award-winning card reader technology, the FireWire CameraMate offers industry leading performance, compatibility, and overall reliability. The FireWire CameraMate uniquely blends the high-speed connectivity and convenience of FireWire technology with a CompactFlash slot to provide an easy to use, high performance, method of transferring data to and from a multitude of digital devices.??Using this new high-speed reader/writer, professional digital photojournalists can now transfer high-resolution images without the need for tethering the camera to a workstation. This speeds up and simplifies image transfer and frees the camera to continue taking pictures. With a Microdrive installed, an entire day's worth of high resolution photographs can be transferred to a host computer in a matter of a few minutes.

USER REVIEWS

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[Mar 31, 2009]
David Goh
Intermediate

Strength:

Like mentioned by someone else, works GREAT when it's working !!!

Weakness:

Needs alot of power to work.... most (maybe all) laptops cannot drive enough
power to make it work properly!

Does not work if PC or Laptop does not 'source' enough power to this adapter. If there is enough power, this puppy works excellent (can download a 8GB CF memory card in about 20minutes veruse several hours using a USB2.0 CF
card reader). When it does not work, such as in nearly ALL laptops using either
the small 1394 connector or using a PCMCIA 1394 bus card adapter, it won't work.
It may work if an extenal 5v power source is connected to the connector on this
CF reader. Haven't tried this... if you do want to try this, note the polarity of the
plug (center pin is Negative and the outer sleeve is Positive ......... backwards from most power connectors).

Customer Service

None.... even their website is DEAD... nothing works on it! Company must be
out of business !

Similar Products Used:

None... ths is the only firewire CF I could find and I use it only on my
Desktop that provides enough power to it for it to work.

OVERALL
RATING
4
VALUE
RATING
4
[Jul 25, 2008]
JohnGarth
Intermediate

Strength:

fast

Weakness:

unreliable

Works fine when it works, which is not much....
Poor reliability..

Customer Service

poor...to non-existent..

Similar Products Used:

Sandisk USB II reader

OVERALL
RATING
1
VALUE
RATING
1
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