Using SD to CF Adapter

[camaroz1985]

Has anyone had experience with one of these adapters?

SD to CF Type 1 Adapter

My laptop only has an SD card reader and I would prefer to use this over carrying an extra card reader with me if I want to compare data between sessions.

Thanks,

Ryan

[grendel]

Didn't anybody try?

I think it will work. I guess the adapter doesn't do any conversions but only guyde the data through. I don't have any info though.

I'll buy one and try.

It already has an advantage of letting the CF adapter stay in the slot. Inserting and pulling it thousands of times might be bad for it in the long run.

And like Ryan says it would mean one less cable and reader to carry as all laptops nowadays have card readers (but CF).

[Peter Carroll/Toronto]

Did it work?

Looking at specs they seem pretty slow. Though for the DL1 thay may be fast enough. No way they will do video <1MB/s.

[Herbert]

It already has an advantage of letting the CF adapter stay in the slot. Inserting and pulling it thousands of times might be bad for it in the long run.

Looking at the picture the slot for the sd card is on the side of the cf adapter, so you'd have to pull it out anyway.

[Peter Carroll/Toronto]

I bought one and it does work - but not in the DL1.

The one I bought turned out to be a type II card meaning it is thicker and will not fit the type I slot in the DL1. I'm not sure if there are others that are type I and if there are then they might work. But be sure to check that.

I bought it because my laptop does not have an SDHC slot but does have a CF slot. For that purpose it does seem to work, though it does not seem any faster than a USB adapter. My laptop is USB 1.0 and is deadly slow. It seems the CF slot is not any faster.

Oh well.