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I have a Panasonic professional video camera which uses P2 cards.

Looking for a way to connect them to the computer without using the camera, I found that the only P2 reader in the market is the one released by the same manufacturer. Going deeper in my researches, I concluded that a P2 card is simply in a PC Card closure with a special controller and SD cards inside.

So now i'm wondering if I could buy a generic USB PCMCIA card reader over the internet (much more affordable, although they aren't yet very common, and you find lots of PCMCIA cards to get extra USBs instead of that) like one of which are shown in that images.

Does anybody know if - obviously with the P2 driver installed in the PC - one of those can do the trick?

Lots of thanks in advance.

P.D: sorry for the poor tagging, but P2, PCCard, PCMCIA... doesn't exist.

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This question is off topic for this site, see electronics.stackexchange.com/faq – trygvis Nov 22 '12 at 6:00
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@trygvis I wasn't sure where to ask this, so I searched and found a question on meta.stackexchange.com about this kind of stuff, and the answerer pointed to this site. If this isn't the right plac, could you please help me find which one? Thanks – Áxel Nov 22 '12 at 8:02
I couldn't find one that's seems obvious here stackexchange.com/sites, but you might try the DIY one. Don't know what their policy is like. – trygvis Nov 22 '12 at 10:19
@trygvis oh! didn't know about that, thanks! – Áxel Nov 22 '12 at 13:54

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