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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 19 July 15 12:06 BST (UK) »
Package Includes:
Universal Media Reader USB 2.0 Cable (Attached)

From Belkin site.
Could you have misread USB2 as 2 cables?


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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 19 July 15 15:24 BST (UK) »
 Copied from John Lewis`s site:
Belkin's Universal Media Reader allows you to transfer pictures, movies, music, and more from your tablet, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, or other media devices etc; etc; etc.
plus the following.......
Includes 2 USB cables for desktop use or travel.   ???

I took the reader back to Tesco today for a refund, and the assistant kindly opened another box and there was only the mini attached lead as per the photo on the box front.   ::)

What`s  Tesco`s photo printing service like? ;D

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« Reply #20 on: Sunday 19 July 15 15:57 BST (UK) »
It looks to me that the John Lewis`s site have made the error of misreading USB2 as 2 cables.

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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 19 July 15 17:21 BST (UK) »
Copied from John Lewis`s site:
Belkin's Universal Media Reader allows you to transfer pictures, movies, music, and more from your tablet, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, or other media devices etc; etc; etc.
plus the following.......
Includes 2 USB cables for desktop use or travel.   ???

I took the reader back to Tesco today for a refund, and the assistant kindly opened another box and there was only the mini attached lead as per the photo on the box front.   ::)

What`s  Tesco`s photo printing service like? ;D

Problem here is that we don't actually know which card reader you bought. Belkin make more than one.

I doubt whether Tesco's printeing service is any better or any worse than any of the other "el cheapo"  printers. It depends how fussy you are. The main problem from my point of view is that the proportions of the print they make is likey to be different from the proportions of the sensor in your camera and different again from the proportions to which you might choose to crop the photograph.


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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 19 July 15 17:22 BST (UK) »
It looks to me that the John Lewis`s site have made the error of misreading USB2 as 2 cables.

Stan

I think it likely that JL are selling a different product.

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« Reply #23 on: Sunday 19 July 15 17:27 BST (UK) »

I took the reader back to Tesco today for a refund, and the assistant kindly opened another box and there was only the mini attached lead as per the photo on the box front.   ::)


I think it likely that JL are selling a different product.

This is the image from John Lewis

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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 19 July 15 17:59 BST (UK) »
That looks like a posher version than the one I have - the one pictured first in this thread. My bet would be that Belkin has changed the design but JL haven't changed the blurb.

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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 19 July 15 18:25 BST (UK) »
The  Belkin card reader on sale at JL is the model I bought from Tesco.

As Stanmapstone says, it  looks as though JL have misread  2.0 USB as  2 x USB leads.

The reason for the card reader kerfuffle ?
All last winter a beautiful pure white starling came to feed every day with the usual flock of `ordinary `starlings. 
The other day when comparing notes with another local bird lover re our garden visitors I mentioned the white starling. 
He said he`d taken a photo of it and kindly took the card from his camera  for me to take a copy.
I can hardly wait!  But obviously I don`t want to risk damaging his card.

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Re: Using a card reader.
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 19 July 15 19:05 BST (UK) »

The other day when comparing notes with another local bird lover re our garden visitors I mentioned the white starling. 

Hope you get your reader problem fixed.

Just want to say I'm glad not to be the only one to have seen a white (albino) starling..................many years ago but in Scotland.

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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