PeterCourtney Wrote:This is a sad side-effect of the money-grubbing control that has been imposed, meaning that fans are short-changed on information to help them enjoy the races.
BTW - can't you just change the memory card in your camera, and leave the full one downloading while you go out and about? My cheap and old Kodak digital jobbie allows this, so maybe progress has been backwards, as I am sure serious photographers will have serious equipment!?

Yea they has something serious wrong with this camera/computer here.

First don't download from your camera, remove memory card and put in your memory card reader, with USB 2.0 256 to 1GB memory card should download to the computer hard drive in 2 minutes. But hey I have 15k SCSI drives YMMV. Firewire should be quicker.

I think he/they may mean "Upload" in like it's taking 2 1/2 hrs. to up load the pictures to a picture site like Photobucket. Tying up your camera doing this can be avoided by following the advice above, then upload photos from computer while you go about your business.

I went to this car show/swap meet this past fall and took over 425 pictures (first time I've ever filled a 256mb memory card!) and a friend of mine in WA wanted to see them. He said what site are you putting them up on? I said none! 400-500 picture to a photo site would take hours, you can get them off of Usenet in the alt.binaries.pictures groups.
Fire up the binary poster, load photos, and use my maximum upload bandwidth posting to my ISP's news server, done in 10-15 minutes.
Wait 1 to 6 hours for the pictures to propagate around the worlds news servers and he could download all 256mb's of pictures, depending on his ISP's bandwidth in 10-15 minutes.
This totally confused my friend in WA and I don't think he ever saw the pictures.

But hey what do I know, I use a PC, I believe boakesey is using a Mac.
You know those Apple user's, they just like to "Crash Differently".