| I can see why a direct import as the pictures are being taken may be a bit difficult since the drive would have to constantly be spinning or somehow have the ipod pull the info to the 32MB memory buffer on the ipod and then transfer it to the disk. I think that is one reason why a digital camera with a HD would be so expensive since you couldn't just have a small HD in there you would also need a memory buffer to grab the pictures instantly and then have the HD spin up when it becomes full or just right before. Now, I really don't understand why after my camera has it's photos on its SD card i can't just put it into USB mode and download directly through my ipod. This is a one time deal the HD would spin up and pull down info. I can very easily tranfer by dragging and dropping between camera folders and ipod folders. I think it's Apple blocking for some reason. If I am correct in my assumption the ipod can only pull info from an authorized source. Does the belkin card reader have some authorization device built in that Apple had requested? Since if I could just pull info from a small HD device or SD device why wouldn't I be able to connect to ipods together and pull info between one another. I don't think Apple want's this since it may get into copyright stuff and this is a way to blcck that. In a sense a authorized dongle device(belkin reader) may have to be added to perform an authorized transfer. If they could make a HD camera with firewire I wonder if they would bump up the ipod battery life so that the camera could actually be charged by the ipod at the same time the ipod would have a beefed up memory buffer to 64 or 128 so that it could store a few more pictures before having to access the HD and start wasting the battery. I am sure Apple is on it just a matter of time.  |