SD300 USB 1.1?

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I read somewhere that the Canon SD300 uses the old USB 1.1 technology and was wondering why USB 2 is not supported in that camera. Is this because of the size of the camera and related power issues? I didn't get a clear indicataion of the USB support from the Canon website, it's not clearly specified:

http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelTechSpecsAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=10599

Are all of these smaller cameras USB 1? Thanks for any comments.

[fdelement]

unless i'm missing something, no where in that spec said its using USB1.1 technology, it just says USB. Although I cannot confirm that it does use 2.0, i can tell you that i once downloaded about 250MB worth of data in less than 1 min. I doubt 1.1 can do it that fast. Plus the camera will still work with 1.1 and 2.0 just at different transfer rates. Ideally one should just buy a card reader for best performance

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unless i'm missing something, no where in that spec said its using USB1.1 technology, it just says USB. Although I cannot confirm that it does use 2.0, i can tell you that i once downloaded about 250MB worth of data in less than 1 min. I doubt 1.1 can do it that fast. Plus the camera will still work with 1.1 and 2.0 just at different transfer rates. Ideally one should just buy a card reader for best performance
Hi fdelement,
This is one place i saw that the SD300 was USB 1.1, I too was very surprised:

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd300-review/

[foobar]

Yep, it's USB 1.1. But copying files across doesn't take much time anyway - it's not instant, but it's far from 'slow'.

Best bet is to get a card reader if you anyway. Then you can enjoy full USB 2.0 speeds, and also upload files to the card.