The TyTN, Memory cards, and my camera...

[cyst]

Hey. This is my first post on the board - spent the last couple of days snooping round and searching as much possible. Just wandering if anyone can offer me a little bit of advice.

Basically I'm looking to get the TyTN once it finally comes out on t-mobile. Apart from the it being my first pda phone and every function looking like too much fun it would be really useful - at least every so often - if I could take photos off of my camera and email them off places.

I shoot a canon 30d - which takes compact flash type I and II.

The simplest? solution: would be connect the camera (or more practically a card reader) by usb to the phone. From what I read the wizard and the universal do NOT support usb hosting - and as far as I can find neither does the TyTN.

Next best solution: compact flash to sd adapter. Which does not exist. Either due to lack of demand or the laws of physics.

Final - well if its the only way, its the only way - solution: sd to compact flash adapter. Use sd cards in my camera when I reckon it'll be useful to transfer them to my phone. Only issue here is write speed. But considering the buffer on the 30d is about 30 jpegs (or 9 jpeg/raw simultaneously) it shouldn't be a huge problem...?

Are there any other solutions? And are my presumutions correct?
Thanks!
James
(I'm a little bit technically stupid on pda phones - but I am a physics student and should really catch on quite quickly...honest)

[wwaveydave]

I think you've pretty much got it down.

[cyst]

hmm...I've just had a thought.

micro sd --> sd --> compactflash.

That's surely going to hugely lower write speeds and make everything a wee bit sketchy?

[ir803]

I'm going to give this a go< i've got a canon 1D mk2 which has an SD slot aswell, I'll see what happens and report. I usually use my dell Axim X50v with my phone in a tight spot without my macbook but the tytn has more ram than the Axim so it may handle the files better.

[ir803]

It works, I set my 1D mk2 to backup shots taken on the CF card and copy them at the same time to the SD card (micro SD adaptor) then took it out the camera put it in the Tytn 2 and go to file explorer and view the images then attach them to an email, sadly I can't do this with my canon 5D but then again the files are a lot bigger anyway so it would be slower with bigger attachements on my emails.