Re: Hands of Time.......(again)

[elgenper@telia.com]

Well, it is a fact that Olympus did NOT recommend the use of any size 
microdrive on the E10, but say they´re OK on the E20.  What actually 
happens if you do use a MD on the E10 seems to vary from user to user, 
however.  A pattern seems to be that the MD does work if you have any 
kind of extra battery power (power grip, external pack), but is 
unreliable without it.  Another method is to use a smart media card as 
the initial store when the pics are made, and to copy them to a MD in 
the CF slot when you have the time.  It is reported to work, but sounds 
quite complicated.

I never tried a MD in my E10, instead I used a few 256 MB CF´s (still 
do with my D60), so I never had all my shots in one big unit.

Per

måndagen den 14 april 2003 kl 15.19 skrev Alan P. Hayes:

> I'd never heard that about the microdrive. Olympus says that the older 
> 340 MB version can't be used with their cameras, though apparently 
> it's more that they won't support it if you do. Some people think that 
> they are terribly unreliable, but I've had no problems with my 1GB 
> model and know of other people who have used them for years. They are 
> somewhat slow however, and Compact Flash memory is getting very close 
> in price to the microdrive in the larger card sizes. Speed of the 
> recording medium may not be the bottleneck with the E10 if I recall 
> correctly.
>
> At 7:23 -0400 4/14/03, Russell Baker wrote:
> >  I understand that using a microdrive is not recommended on the E 10.
> >
> > I seem to remember reading in some article that one guy did use one
> > though......
> >
> > Any body have any experience on that?