Tip for people serious about their photography: Memory Card Readers are life savers.

Hitching your camera via USB to your computer to transfer your photos is fraught with potential for disaster. Consider the following scenarios:

• Lightning strikes; your computer goes to the grave, your camera along with it.
• Council works up the road cause a power disruption; sad faces appear on your computer and your camera and the best photos you ever took are now corrupted, never to be seen.
• Only one thing stands between you and the thrill of seeing your latest swag of award-winning shots… a swag of flat batteries. Eighty minutes later your excitement has flatlined while your battery sits expressionless still in its charger.
• You’ve been following the action. Your shutter button trigger finger has never felt fitter. But suddenly shooting stops… “Memory Card Full!”

If you’ve been paying close attention, you will have arrived at the only logical conclusion in response to this mess… a memory card reader.

With a decent memory card reader, you’ll be able to avoid the nasty scenarios mentioned above, as well as enjoy faster transfer speeds and the ability to retain duplicates of your digital image files as needed.

Another benefit of having a card reader is that they can usually handle a variety of cards and formats.

Also, when the manufacturer releases a firmware upgrade for your camera, you can download it from the internet to your card via the card reader. Then it’s a simple matter of inserting the card into your camera to carry out a problem free upgrade.

Here are some of the available options at CamerasDirect.com.au:

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