What Firewire Card Reader For Mac
I'd like to buy a card reader for camera cards (multiformat, if possible) for my iMac 7.1. Because all my USB ports are full (including using a splitter), I'd like one that could run off of one of the unused firewire ports on the back of the computer. But I understand that there is more than one kind of firewire port: 4-pin and 6-pin, and readers need 6-pin. I don't know which I've got.
Can anyone recommend a photo card reader that will work with my iMac, or at least tell me which kind of firewire port I have? I'd like to buy a card reader for camera cards (multiformat, if possible) for my iMac 7.1.
Because all my USB ports are full (including using a splitter), I'd like one that could run off of one of the unused firewire ports on the back of the computer. But I understand that there is more than one kind of firewire port: 4-pin and 6-pin, and readers need 6-pin. I don't know which I've got. Can anyone recommend a photo card reader that will work with my iMac, or at least tell me which kind of firewire port I have?
I decided to buy a firewire card reader to download the images from my D60. I would like to get some feedback from people who have been using these devices and suggestions on performance/price considerations. I use both a desktop and a laptop and both flash memory and microdrive. I run once in a problem with a USB card reader that appearently wasn't getting enough power from the desktop computer and was jamming the microdrive.the problem went away after replacing the card reader (and the ruined microdrive!).
So my concern is also about getting a card reader that would be powered by the Firewire bus or by an external power supply. Thank you all in advance for the help.
Thank you all for the feedback. I have a Laptop running XP and a desktop running win2000.
I just added a PCI firewire card to the desktop since the laptop already has its own onboard. It seems to me that all major brand readers will perform fine with my setup. I am sooo excited that I just added a 30 GB and a 120 GB firewire drives to my desktop and I mapped them to be shared by the laptop for storage and archiving of my pictures. Now on to the task of going through 4 years of digital and start scanning about 15 years of chromes, labelling, keywording, and building a Cumulus database.ok, I guess I'd better set some time aside these coming holidays just to get started. Been using the Lexar one for years.
Well it seems lie years I got one when they first come out. I now have three on my different Macs. Never had any issues with them. I would not buy any Lexar CF cards but the reader is great.
Looking to maybe try the SanDisk firewire 800 reader when I have some spare cash. Canon: EOS 5DmkII. 50D. 40D.
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24-70 f2.8 EX DG MACRO Apple: CS3, Aperture & iPhoto. Various Manfrotto, Portaflash, Battery Grips, SanDisk & Lowepro alamy. Two types of connectors are generally used with FireWire; 4 pin on electronics, and a 6 pin on computers. The 6 pin connector has the following pinout: Pin 1; Power, 30volts Pin 2; Ground Pins 3, 4; B Twisted pair (-/+) Pins 5, 6; A Twisted pair (-/+) Cable shield Pins 3&4 are crossed with 5&6 at the opposite ends of the cable. The transmitter sends clock on 3&4, and data on 5&6. Pin 1, Power, is not transmitted through the cable unless the device is powered by the 1394b bus. This is part of the 1394b spec.
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