Dig Camera

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I cannot comment on either of these cameras, so if that's all you're
looking for, stop reading :-)

However, as a purchaser and user of many different digital cameras over
the past few years, I have to heartily recommend using a card reader
rather than plugging the camera in.  Here's why:

no battery drain - pulling 200+ RAW images off a camera takes ages and
totally wipes out the battery

speed - some cameras (perhaps not your target cameras, FWIW) are only
USB 1.0, which is really pokey for file transfer

keep shooting - I often find that I want to keep shooting at home, and
by pulling my card and throwing it into the reader to download, I put in
my second card and keep going - this happens more than you would think,
even with multiple 1Gb+ cards

less fragile - after a careless person tripped over the cord to the
camera one and broke the fragile leads inside the camera, rendering it a
brick.  The upshot is that because it was downloading images at the time
it also corrupted the filesystem on the card.

compatible with everything - I carry a card reader and I can transfer
photos to Linux, Mac OSX, Windows without any problems.  Card readers
are small, cheap and easy to carry, and worth their weight IMHO.
-- 

yours,

William

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