Konica Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 5D - USB 2.0 speed and...

I don't understand why the camera power even needs to be used to read
the card. The USB should be enough power to power up the CF and read
from it without involving the camera.

I predict this "innovation" will soon (or eventually anyway) occur...

Cheers,
Alan

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I only worry about wear and tear on the male pins in the camera body.
So I prefer to hardwire the images over.

Hi there

I had hoped that some tech genius
knew about a nifty trick - or someone
had access to a beta-version of a firmware
update (that will never be released now :-(...

As said, otherwise I am quite happy about
the camera+lens - marvelous pics and good,
logical functionality.

Just seen pics of Sony alpha-100 dSLR: the
Konica Minolta parentage is more than visible
as it looks extremely much as a D5/D7. But
with 10 MP instead of 6.1 MP.

Regards, Erik M R

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I've got a 5D and never even unwrapped the USB cable. Just take the
card out and put it in a cheap reader. Saves the camera batteries
and/or you can be reformatting other cards in the camera while you're
uploading photos to the PC.

Darrell Larose () wrote in rec.photo.digital.slr-systems:

The Minolta Maxxum 7D is a USB 2.0 device. The first firmware was not
well written, and transfer speeds were around 7-8Mbps, which is USB 1.1
speed. The 1.10 version firmware corrected this, and gives 20-30Mbps
speeds. This is not the full 480Mbps spec of USB 2.0, but then no other
D-SLR camera comes close, and 20-30Mbps is about what most of them score.

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I doubt hardware can be updated with firmware. The 7D was USB 1.1, and now
that Konica-Minolta is out of the camera business it's doubtful any more
support will be offered. You can but an USB 2 high speed card reader and get
the full speed transfer.