[CUBE] Slow USB camera

Rick Rodman richard.rodman at verizon.net
Sat Dec 21 12:08:39 PST 2002


I have a Kodak DC220, and I can download 8MB in around two minutes.  If I
use the serial port, yeah, then it takes like 20 minutes.

> > That's bizarre...I downloaded the contents of a full 128 MB card
> > through the USB camera interface, in less than 4 minutes. What kind of
> > camera are you talking about? Mine is a Canon Powershot G2.
> >
> > On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 08:05  AM, Cube List wrote:
> >
> >> All I know is that when I used my camera's USB port it took upwards
> >> of 20 minutes to download my 8MB card.  With the FW reader it takes
> >> about 5 minutes to download my 96MB card.

> It was probably the camera's USB port being junk.  It was one of those
> "it's a serial port NO! it's a USB port" kind of jobs.  Camera's a
> Kodak DC240.





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