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>When you use that type of hardware, do you have to put the camera card into an adapter before putting it into the reader? Such as we do for PCMCIA?
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If you get a USB CompactFlash reader and connect it to your computer, there is no adapter involved. Or you can get a PCMCIA based reader...I suppose that could be considered an adapter.

Here is an example of USB reader:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000633DU/103-2071377-4179867?vi=glance