On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:40:11 GMT, Daniel Silevitch wrote:

One thing to add: If you tend to fill up a big card with photos before
downloading them to the computer, a card reader will likely be quite a
bit faster than hooking the camera directly to the computer. If, on the
other hand, you tend to take ten or twenty pictures and then download, a
card reader won't save a signficant amount of time.

And another thing to add: If you take lots of pictures and are
using a relatively recent HP computer, consider getting a cheap card
reader, as the built-in readers will probably be horrendously slow.
With my HP, transferring files from the camera takes *much* less
time than using the HP's built-in readers. Nobody has yet commented
as to whether HP's sibling Compaqs have the same problem.