Advice on a decent memory card reader

themask70 · 6 Nov 2009 at 19:14

Hey all.

I'm now a proud owner of a 5d MK 2 + 24-105 as of earlier today and will be looking for a decent memory card reader as the files from the 5d are a lot bigger than the ones from my old 350.

Was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestions for good quality and fast card readers for downloading images into lightroom with?

Cheers in advance

Mr Jones · 6 Nov 2009 at 19:23

Any decent USB2.0 CF card reader will work fine, don't need anything too fancy unless you've got specific needs? I've got a Sandisk, got it for less than a tenner from a store in Jersey.

themask70 · 6 Nov 2009 at 19:26

Nah I'm not after anything amazing, just something which is faster than my current cheap and cheerful one which I got from a certain catalogue store beginning with an a.

I shall have a look around in a bit

ChroniC · 6 Nov 2009 at 20:33

I would have thought either is controlled by usb speeds anyhow, you probably have a usb1.0 old version. Just buy a new ub2.0 one.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-003-AK

MarkLP · 7 Nov 2009 at 17:22

Don't forget it might depend on your CF card speed. The memory card reader shouldn't really matter with regards to speed.

neil_g · 7 Nov 2009 at 17:27

the one coming from the catalogue shop begining with A is USB2 so you wont see any difference going to another that is USB2.