I am looking for (ideally) a digital camera, megapixels, which has USB. Are there any out there? If not, which ones have the quickest method to download the images?

-- Marianne Marinovich (marianne@edrama.com), December 07, 1998

Answers

I know the Kodak DC260 has USB

-- BarryO (barry@nospam.com), December 07, 1998.

As far as I know, the Kodak DC220 and DC260 are the only USB cameras currently on the market, although others should be showing up by late Spring. For the absolute fastest download though, use a PC-card adapter for whatever media your camera takes, and dump the files via the PC slot on your laptop. You don't get to control the camera from the computer this way, but the transfers happen in literally seconds. There are also various adapters out there that accept either CompactFlash or SmartMedia cards, and connect via parallel port (semi-fast), or SCSI port (really fast, but more expensive).

-- Dave Etchells (detchells@imaging-resource.com), December 09, 1998.

These Kodak models have USB as mentioned, but if you are on a iMac, Kodak does not officially acknowledge support yet via USB. The third party beta drivers are available from the Kodak site, and they work if you can find yourself around a few bugs.

Delane- The Digital Camera Resource Page www.dcresource.com

-- Delane Barrus (delane@wormwood.net), January 06, 1999.