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Summary: LEXAR MEDIA UNIVERSAL DIGITAL FILM READER
Review: 1. For several years I struggled with digital film memory card transfers from my Kodak DC-265 digital camera to my Kodak software program, Picture Easy 3.1.
2. Primary problems:
a) Transfer times excessive, ie., 10 - 15 minutes.
b) Image transfers often excluded varying numbers of images.
3. Upon receipt of a Lexar Media USB DFR from a relative,
problems experienced above vanished, ie., transfers were
completed in a matter of seconds with no exclusions or aborts.
4. Since I have two residences in California, it seemed prudent to have a card reader at each. Ward Bush
Rating:
Summary: LEXAR MEDIA UNIVERSAL DIGITAL FILM READER
Review: 1. For several years I struggled with digital film memory card transfers from my Kodak DC-265 digital camera to my Kodak software program, Picture Easy 3.1.
2. Primary problems:
a) Transfer times excessive, ie., 10 - 15 minutes.
b) Image transfers often excluded varying numbers of images.
3. Upon receipt of a Lexar Media USB DFR from a relative,
problems experienced above vanished, ie., transfers were
completed in a matter of seconds with no exclusions or aborts.
4. Since I have two residences in California, it seemed prudent to have a card reader at each. Ward Bush
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Summary: Forget it.
Review: Following the purchase of a digital camera I went and picked up this sorry excuse of a card reader for my Macintosh Computer (an upgraded Beige G3 using system 9.x). While it did display the first few test shots on the camera with a 64mb Compact Flash card, it would not see any further than #83 (out of 106 shots!) and proclaimed the card was damaged. It wasn't- I had to get the pictures off via the camera's port. Combined with the PCMIA card you have to stick the Compact Flash Card into for it to read the pictures off of, it is a poorly executed design for such a pricey gadget. Needless to say I returned it promptly. If you are a new Mac user, go and get the VST Tri-Media reader- it works fine and gets you a floppy disk drive in the deal.
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Summary: Lexar film reader
Review: I bought one of these several years ago and still have it. I have found with most device of this time, that if the drivers are installed correctly and there are no conflicts they work great. I have in the last year switch my camera's to USB 2.0 and download directly from the cameras and it is fast. But in it's time, this was a good reader.
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Summary: Lexar Digital Film Reader
Review: I bought this product because my Boss has a Canon Power Shot A50, and I bought for my wife a Fuji Fine pix 1400. The serial connection for digital cameras are very slow and consume batteries. I wanted a USB digital film reader and this one worked perfect out of the box. I plug it in the USB port (it comes with it's own USB cable)and ran the setup program on the Product's CD and after 2 reboots, one for the USB device on the mother board and one for the Lexar digital film reader it work fine. It shows up in Explorer as a removable Disk (F:) and Removable Disk (G:). The device has two slots for different type of digital film. The top slot has a PC Card Adapter which I use for the Canon Digital Film. The bottom slot I use for Smart media film for the Fuji Camera. Just click and drag the images off the digital film as if it was another drive on the computer. Could not be any easier.
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Summary: Good enough but [costs some money]
Review: I bought this product one year ago and it didn`t bring any Windows xp drivers. I couldn`t find it on the lexar website so I contacted their support service wich promptly sent me the link for download. After downloading and installing the new drivers it worked fine ever since in 4 different machines with Cf of 16 and 64mb and a 16mb smartmedia.
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Summary: Decent, but not without problems.
Review: I bought this reader a few months ago to transfer images from a 128 MB SmartMedia card. I picked this one specifically because I expected to need support for both SmartMedia and CompactFlash. I was disappointed by the lack of Linux support, but I managed to find a Windows 2000 machine and transfer the images from the SmartMedia card, and it worked fine. Jump ahead a few months. I tried to use it last night with a 16 MB CompactFlash card, the one that came with my new Canon S40. It failed miserably. Not one single image was transferred correctly. The only good to come of the experience was that I learned that there is native Linux support for the Canon S40, so I have no need of a separate reader. I still have several friends and relatives who use SmartMedia cameras, so I may keep this reader around for when I'm working with their memory cards, but I'm rather irritated with it at the moment.
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Summary: Waste of time and money. Do not buy.
Review: I bought this reader to read my smartmedia and compact flash cards on my Windows 2000 Pro (Service Pack 1) computer. As soon as I installed the Lexar driver and plugged the unit in, my computer died with the blue screen bugcheck in ntkernel.exe (the stop code was 0x0000000A, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL for those who are insterested). After extensive runaround from their instant messaged tech support in upstate india, they told me to upgrade my OS to service pack 2. With much reluctance I did. Now, I can read my compact flash card, but not my smart media. And I also think that it's using the Service Pack 2 microsoft driver even though I explicitly installed Lexar's. What a waste of time.
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Summary: Can not read Smart Media
Review: I have been using this product on my PC with Windows ME for the last year and it works great. It is extremely easy to use and install, even for those of us who are technically challanged. The pictures download quickly and it is simple simple simple.
However, since I got a new computer with Windows XP, I now cannot get the driver to install. Lexar support says they are working on an updated driver download but it is not available yet. There is some kind of workaround that Lexar is supposed to be sending me, but I havn't received it yet and it sounds kind of involved. I can't wait to start using it again.
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Summary: Very easy to use, but not with XP
Review: I have been using this product on my PC with Windows ME for the last year and it works great. It is extremely easy to use and install, even for those of us who are technically challanged. The pictures download quickly and it is simple simple simple.
However, since I got a new computer with Windows XP, I now cannot get the driver to install. Lexar support says they are working on an updated driver download but it is not available yet. There is some kind of workaround that Lexar is supposed to be sending me, but I havn't received it yet and it sounds kind of involved. I can't wait to start using it again.
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