USB transfer cable for my Olympus D-460

[Sorrow]

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Does anyone know where I can purchase a USB transfer
cable for my D-460? I've looked around and I just can't
seem to find one. I've been using the serial cable that came
with the picture but it is soooo incredibly slow.

thnx,
Christoph

 

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Sorrow wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can purchase a USB transfer
> cable for my D-460? I've looked around and I just can't
> seem to find one. I've been using the serial cable that came
> with the picture but it is soooo incredibly slow.
>
> thnx,
> Christoph
>
>
By a card reader, you will never plug it in again, who could go back to
usb transfer once you have a reader, I have a very snazzy 5 in 1 that
mounts in the front of the pc in the spare floppy drive and plugs in to
a internal usb connector

 

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I second the reader. I picked up one made by Sandisk for $40. Takes compact
flash I and II, xd, SM, SD, MMC, Mem stick and mem stick pro.
Coincidentally, it comes with the same kind of cable you use to connect the
camera directly. It is sooooo much faster than through the camera
(especially if you have a USB 2.0 high speed port).
Richard
"Mark Spacey" <vax2002news@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Sorrow wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know where I can purchase a USB transfer
> > cable for my D-460? I've looked around and I just can't
> > seem to find one. I've been using the serial cable that came
> > with the picture but it is soooo incredibly slow.
> >
> > thnx,
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> By a card reader, you will never plug it in again, who could go back to
> usb transfer once you have a reader, I have a very snazzy 5 in 1 that
> mounts in the front of the pc in the spare floppy drive and plugs in to
> a internal usb connector

 

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The D-460 can *only* talk serial, not USB. You can use a serial-to-USB
converter but you'll still have the serial bottleneck. You cannot speed
it up.

So the smart media reader suggested by others is the way to go. Besides
being massively faster, you can use it directly from your main OS without
needing Olympus's software. The camera's batteries aren't needed at all
for picture transfer. And readers nowdays are cheaper than converters.

Get one. You'll be glad you did!

Jim Horn (Using my D-460 for four years now this way)