USB to SD/CF adapter?

[DeLeon]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of an adapter that I can use for my USB thumb drive in a card reader. Ive looked, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for.

[erisian pope]

I have never heard of such a thing. Are you talking about a card reader that plugs into a computer? If so, then it probably plugs in using a USB port - you could simply plug the thumbdrive into the same or an adjacent USB port on the computer.

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[CaptainTom]

I take it you want to download your images from your CF card to your thumb drive ?

Haven't seen one yet, but I bet there is something out there.

[smoothassilk]

This what your looking for?. Bought it from Radio Shack . They are called Sakar xD Picture Card Reader.
Here is a link. http://www.radioshack.com/search/ind...r%20Drive&sr=1

[DeLeon]

Thanks everyone. I should have been a little more specific. The local pro lab I use has a kiosk for ordering prints. This kiosk is just a PC with a built in card reader and a CD/DVD drive. Some software that looks like a modified version of ACDSee downloads your photos from your card and then some ordering software pops up. A page is printed with your order details and you take it to the counter to pay. I LOVE THIS SYSTEM! I would just like to leave my SD cards at home and bring my photos on my thumb drive. There is no USB port on the front of this machine. I was looking for an attachment that was the same size and had the same pins as a SD or CF card that I could put on the end of my USB thumb drive and use in a card reader.

I'll keep looking. I doubt there is a product like that around.

Thanks again every one!

[erisian pope]

I don't think such a product exists, as I mentioned earlier. Your kiosk situation is the first I have heard of where one would be useful. Until you posted that, I could not even imagine when such an adapter would ever be used ... Does the kiosk accept CDs? Maybe you could burn the images to CD - those are pretty cheap.

[boxofrocks]

Originally Posted by DeLeon

Thanks everyone. I should have been a little more specific. The local pro lab I use has a kiosk for ordering prints. This kiosk is just a PC with a built in card reader and a CD/DVD drive. Some software that looks like a modified version of ACDSee downloads your photos from your card and then some ordering software pops up. A page is printed with your order details and you take it to the counter to pay. I LOVE THIS SYSTEM! I would just like to leave my SD cards at home and bring my photos on my thumb drive. There is no USB port on the front of this machine. I was looking for an attachment that was the same size and had the same pins as a SD or CF card that I could put on the end of my USB thumb drive and use in a card reader.

I'll keep looking. I doubt there is a product like that around.

Thanks again every one!

You might want to consider transferring the photos from the SD drive to a cheap CF card--I'd think that would cost as much as an adapter. you could keep it in it's little case, and just drop it in your pocket.

Or, just buy another cheap SD card so you have a spare to use for this purpose. Maybe I'm missing your objective. Slow memory cards are so cheap, I'm not sure why you'd want to use anything else.

[DeLeon]

Its not a big deal really...I just tend to misplace memory cards when I dont keep them together, and when I am downtown at the lab, I usually have several other places to go and they somehow slip out of my pockets. The ideal thing would be for the lab to get a new machine with USB ports on the fron with the card reader. Otherwise they have a great set up.

[Dobick]

I picked up a thumb drive not too long ago that uses sd cards. I keep a spare sd card in it, and it has come in handy a few times. It was fairly inexpensive as well. I would post more details if I could remember them -- I think it is made be sandisk. It's just a thumbdrive that has a slot for sd cards. dedicate an sd card for that, and you should be all set, or trade them out when you go to print.

[henryp]

Originally Posted by Dobick

I picked up a thumb drive not too long ago that uses sd cards.

Handy gadgets. Here's one.