K10D as emergency card reader

I needed to read pictures from an SD card from my daughters Casio camera earlier, and my laptop, which is all I had available, refused to recognise the card. In desperation, I put the card in my K10D and hooked it up with the USB lead. Bingo! We could read all the pictures off the card onto the laptop with ease.

Not only that, but to my surprise, the K10D would also browse the pictures on its own display. Given that the Casio's folder organisation is different to the K10D's, this was remarkable and worth knowing for emergencies.

It can read any folder structure as long as the card is FAT16 or FAT32. It will also read any JPEG images, don't know how it would cope with PEFs from a K100D or an *ist.

Most cameras can be put into a card reader mode or camera (needing drivers) USB mode. It can normally be found in the set-up menu. I think I found it on the K10D somewhere, but can't remember.

PEFs will preview at full size in both directions, that is the K10 can read *ist ones and more surprisingly my *istDL2 can preview K10 PEFs.

You can only preview at full size though, not zoom in. Presumably this is because the full size preview comes from the embedded JPEG while the zoomed in version is created from the PEF itself.

You'd be stuffed if you tried to view PEFs from a K10D on an *ist D..., you have to transfer the images from an SD card to a CF card....

That's we need from the K10D Plus... twin slots for CF and SD...

Nope
I have a neat little CF adaptor (it's as thick as an IBM microdrive) that you slide in an SD card and put into the *ist-D. Works a treat

But the other way round would hurt

Matt

I keep forgetting about that.... I was looking for such a device for my Flashtrax (which doesn't like K10D DNGs) and ended up with a bulky item that sticks out a lot..

I wouldn't stick such a device into my *ist D though....