I am going to buy either the Canon Powershot G2 or Sony DSC P707 and want to connect it to a Compaq iPAQ pocket PC. I think the only way of doing it is by taking the portable memory card out of the camera and putting it in the Compact Flash socket in the iPAQ. If I get the Sony I will also require an adaptor so the MemoryStick can be read as if it were an Compact Flash.

Has anyone successfully done this?

-- Daniel Scott (dan@proactive8.com), October 22, 2001

Answers

I have been using a 16 mb and a 1gb CF card interchangeably in my canon powershot S30 and my Acer n10 Windows CE 2003 Pocket pc.

The camera automatically places it's own files in it's own directories. It causes no conflicts that I have seen. I can view pictures and edit them in the pocket pc.

The camera is capable of viewing jpg's that are not canon branded (I carry edited pano's with me too), although I haven't tried to put a full-size 30mb pano and tried to read it...

The pocket pc was using MP3's and had a couple of programs installed on it, with a picture from a canon 300D and my camera as well..

-keiran.

ps. There is a device in Taiwan where I live that is a battery powered 2.5" hard drive with card readers (and USB downstream for flash Disks as well) available. I can't find the device on the internet though. This is also useful for backing up.

I will soon be experimenting with using the drive with a USB host CF card as well.

-- Keiran Earl (eschelar@hotmail.com), April 01, 2004.