iPod Camera Connector??

[graykita]

I have a photo iPod with 60 Gigs, was thinking about buying the wolverine but just found that apple has the Camera Connector and read very contradictive reviews, has anyone here used it or heard anything about it? it is cheap $30 but I have two events coming up and would rather save the money for the wolverine and add to it to upgrade one of my lenses.

Any help is appreciated!!

Thanks,

[ChopstickHero]

i have read reviews and said that it is quite slow and will eat up your iPod batteries. however, if you are an occasional user and don't have too many photos to backup, i think it would be a reasonable thing to get. but if you're a heavy user, and need to back up GBs of data, you may be better off getting a portable photo backup drive.

[rlhphotos]

very slow and kills your ipod battery..had one for a few days got rid of it..I have a SmartDisk FotoChute right now, but would also recommend the Apacer Steno.

[graykita]

Thanks for your input, do you think i can use the camera connector to connect a card reader? or

[PacAce]

I have a photo iPod with 60 Gigs, was thinking about buying the wolverine but just found that apple has the Camera Connector and read very contradictive reviews, has anyone here used it or heard anything about it? it is cheap $30 but I have two events coming up and would rather save the money for the wolverine and add to it to upgrade one of my lenses.

Any help is appreciated!!

Thanks,
If you do a search here on iPod you'll get a few hits. Here's one that may be of interest to you. I posted something about my experience with the iPod and the camera connector towards the bottom of the thread.

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=98315

[Double Negative]

I was interested in this as well. Everything I've seen seems to indicate it's just not worth it, being slow and eating the iPod's battery. But if you have your portable charger with you, and you set it up to dump the photos when you hit the hotel for the night (or whatever) it should work okay - and better than nothing. It's only, what, $29?

Depends on your needs, I guess. There's always the option of getting a better backup solution or buying additional CF cards.

[rlhphotos]

Seriously for the money and Apacer cost like $100 for 40gb I think..

[polvoronn]

I have it. it's slow ... but it works for me. Definately not recommended if you're filling up 1-2gb cards every 5 hours (it KILLS your battery)

[Todd Jacobsen]

I have a photo iPod with 60 Gigs, was thinking about buying the wolverine but just found that apple has the Camera Connector and read very contradictive reviews, has anyone here used it or heard anything about it? it is cheap $30 but I have two events coming up and would rather save the money for the wolverine and add to it to upgrade one of my lenses.

Any help is appreciated!!

Thanks,


The IPOD is a good backup to your PRIME backup storage method. I would definitely recommend other photo storage devices first, prior to using your IPOD. I used to use my IPOD all the time, it does work but it isn't the most efficient.

You have the IPOD photo, which, in my opinion, is better than my current IPOD (IPOD video), for photo storage in the field. For one, the IPOD video does not support Firewire, other than to charge. Not sure if this affected the IPOD Photo models (via a software upgrade).

There is a better photo transfer device for the IPOD Photo which does not work for the IPOD video. It's the Belkin devices. One is called Camera Link and the other one is called a Media Reader. The camera link connects in the same method to the camera as the Apple camera connector. The Camera Link can also connect to a USB card reader as well. The Belkin Media reader has card slots for transfer. The limitation of the Belkin devices is that you cannot view your photo transfers like you can with the Camera Connector. The Belkin devices will register as Photo Rolls and will provide a number in parenthisis. This number equates to the number of JPEG or RAW photos you take. The number is 1/2 off if you take jpeg+RAW. Something to do with identical file names (Apple ignores the extension). Camera connector lets you see your transfered jpegs but not your RAW photos (although you will see a RAW textual icon).

So, I would recommend purchasing the Belkin devices over the Camera connector. I would also check to verify that the Belkin devices still work with the IPOD photo. If you can transfer songs, via ITUNES, with firewire on your IPOD, you can use the Belkin devices.