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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 463781" data-attributes="member: 12496">No, the camera itself is a card reader in that respect.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I think there are special portable hard drives you can plug into the camera port, which are computer enough to allow transfer of your images to them (for storage), but that just gets the images to the drive, not to the computer yet. That just seems a complication, if used for when the card fills up, it seems like just replacing the card with an empty card then would be a greatly simpler and less expensive solution.Speed and convenience is the main reason for the card reader.&nbsp; USB 3.0 card readers are very much faster (if the computer has a 3.0 port) than the the camera, which is just USB 2.0.&nbsp; And then the camera does not have to powered up, running on batteries.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 463781, member: 12496"] No, the camera itself is a card reader in that respect. :) I think there are special portable hard drives you can plug into the camera port, which are computer enough to allow transfer of your images to them (for storage), but that just gets the images to the drive, not to the computer yet. That just seems a complication, if used for when the card fills up, it seems like just replacing the card with an empty card then would be a greatly simpler and less expensive solution. Speed and convenience is the main reason for the card reader. USB 3.0 card readers are very much faster (if the computer has a 3.0 port) than the the camera, which is just USB 2.0. And then the camera does not have to powered up, running on batteries. [/QUOTE]

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