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Birdbird - Jan 4, 2006 - 9:20 am

Does iphoto reduce the quality of my photos when it transfers them to ipod? It was suggested that this is the reason using the camera connector sucks the battery dry.

Is it possible to store large TIFF files or JPEG files untainted? If so, can you use a generic USB transfer unit to upload from the camera. I realise the files might not be viewable on the ipod but frankly the screen is pathetically small anyway.

baldprof - Jan 4, 2006 - 10:34 am

I don't know about the iPhoto quality part of your question.

You can partition your IPod to reserve part of it for data. Then it would show up in the Finder (on a Mac) or MY Computer (Windows XP) as a removable usb storage device. Then you could store whatever files you wanted in whatever space you had. In effect, the IPod becomes a large flash drive. This solution does require using a computer as an intermediary, but it does allow you to copy directly from one storage device (card reader) to the iPod. None of those files would be viewable though.

I hope this helps.

baldprof - Jan 4, 2006 - 10:38 am

Here's a page which explains the "enable disk use" part of what I mentioned:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93446

Birdbird - Jan 4, 2006 - 11:04 am

Thanks Michael.

I ended up buying a 1Gb SD card for my camera which should be sufficient. The USB transfer question was just out of interest. Dont think I'll bother with the Apple camera connector as the battery usage defeats the purpose of having a highly transportable backup device.

If the straight USB file transfer works it's something I may use in the future.