[john.sw]

This looks good.

Plug your digital camera in at one end and a memory stick, MP3 player or iPod in the other and transfer your photographs.

It looks like an ideal way of freeing up space on your camera and it's cheap too!

Belkin USB Anywhere

[Ray kelleher]

Wow that's brilliant, now i can clear my memory card straight on to my i-pod and not only that but swap music files off other i-pod users without having to go to a internet cafe, this is going to be brilliant for jazzing up your over heard i-pod tunes, and for grabbing that album that you have been after for age's when you meet up with other travelers.... i'm getting one tomorrow ....

[Hyderabadi]

In the US, $26-46:

http://www.google.co...a...where &um=1

(A may-not-be-relevant note: Some or many of the Belkin products are not "certified" by Microsoft. I've had bitter experiences wih their USB wireless cards, even after using the 'Continue Anyway' method suggested. Don't know who to find fault with though!  I do get pop-up messages from MS Windows admonishing me and warning me about the consequences of using attachments not approved by MS.   )

[noflylist]

Cool gizmo, I may try out.

[Cameleer]

I looked up some reviews about this and most where not very good, like the ones below.

Another thing the packaging doesn't tell you is that this is a USB 1.1 device, thus the transfer rate is too slow for anything but small devices unless you have access to AC power and plenty of time.

The Iaudio mp3 player did not recognize my cameras, so this was supposed to bridge the gap. It recognized one camera, but not the mp3 player.

[WonderWomanUSA]

Neither of these links tell the capacity of the device.

[Cameleer]

The thing that I don’t like about these is you can’t really be sure that it saved your photos to a portable had drive. You would be deleting your camera’s memory card and not know for sure if your images where saved.
Anyway, after looking around at a few different models this one looks like the best so far.
Memorex TRAVELLINK-USB UFD CARD READER
http://www.amazon.co..._pr_product_top

[vistet]

Since there is a fair portion of Himalayan travellers here , a caveat on transferring to hard drives at altitude : don´t. I´ve  met three owners with crashed hard drives in Ladakh & Tibet , the look on their faces was hard to shake. Up to Leh and Lhasa´s altitude seems to work out fine , above it gets iffy. (I used mine up to 4000). Warranty says 3000.