Hello,
Apple is coming out with a new accessory for both the iPod photo, the new iPod, and as some rumours have it, even the existing iPod range (via firmware udpate). The accessory is a cable which should allow one to copy photos from a camera to the iPod:
I personally like the compactness of this solution (had I known this feature would come, I wouldn't have bought the Blaupunkt MP3 player in my car, but an iPod )
My question now is: how does it work?
A lot of cameras do present themselves as a USB storage device, but not all of them offer this interface. Even for cameras that do, should we then consider that the iPod effectively becomes a USB master?
Or is it more likely that they use some technology similar to that in USB memory copiers like this one: http://www.macally.com/new/new_syncbox.html ?
But then how is it done for cameras that don't behave as USB storage (which if I'm not mistaken is the majority of consumer cameras, using the PTP interface) ?
Any ideas?
(other harddisk storage for cameras have a cardreader, and copy from that one)
Jörg
Apple is coming out with a new accessory for both the iPod photo, the new iPod, and as some rumours have it, even the existing iPod range (via firmware udpate). The accessory is a cable which should allow one to copy photos from a camera to the iPod:
I personally like the compactness of this solution (had I known this feature would come, I wouldn't have bought the Blaupunkt MP3 player in my car, but an iPod )
My question now is: how does it work?
A lot of cameras do present themselves as a USB storage device, but not all of them offer this interface. Even for cameras that do, should we then consider that the iPod effectively becomes a USB master?
Or is it more likely that they use some technology similar to that in USB memory copiers like this one: http://www.macally.com/new/new_syncbox.html ?
But then how is it done for cameras that don't behave as USB storage (which if I'm not mistaken is the majority of consumer cameras, using the PTP interface) ?
Any ideas?
(other harddisk storage for cameras have a cardreader, and copy from that one)
Jörg
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