As usual, I'm with Winsor. If I'm on a shoot locally, a laptop would be
fine. If I'm traveling, that's too much.
Of course, a couple of 120 propacks of Plus-X or 160NC is even better!
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Storage devices
>
> Well let me tag onto Garth since he seems to be the only one sensibly
> not trying to persuade someone to substitute a cheap, moosey 5 pound
> laptop for something that that is small and weighs about half a
> pound. This on a list where people moan about digital cameras that
> weigh a few more ounces than an OM. :-)
>
> Virtually all of these device display a little file system that
> allows you to see whether the pictures have been loaded onto the
> disk. Some of the more expensive ones have displays of varying
> quality so that you can visually verify that there is an image there.
> The way I understand it most use the jpg generated by the camera for
> its LCD to display the image on the storage device. A very few
> decrypt raw files and then only for a few of the more popular cameras
> and models.
>
> The JOBO does look intriguing, but visits I made in the past to the
> JOBO site and the number of refurbished prior models is unsettling.
> The Epson does not seem to have a lot complaints and that is probably
> the one I would get if I were getting one now. I use a Flashtrax
> which has a large, but coarse LCD, middling speed, sort of
> unintuitive controls, and operating system, but it does the job and
> will display ORF files. It is about the size of an old fashioned pulp
> fiction paperback and not much heavier. It has a cover to protect the
> lovely LCD(joke) and a snap on battery if you need spares in an
> environment where you can't plug it in. It had some initial quality
> problems when it first came out but the company was quick to correct
> them and feedback for it was pretty good on the storage forum on
> dpreview before the limited attention span there got caught up with
> newer ones on the market.
>
> http://smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/FlashTrax1.asp
>
> I don't think that speed is really of the essence with these things.
> No one should be operating with one memory card. They do fail from
> time to time and you need a back up card. So the full card can be
> dowloading to the storage device while you continue shoot with your
> second card.
>
> I have to admit that a laptop with a small drive is probably ideal
> from the safety standpoint, but geez you have to draw the line
> somewhere. And if safety is a paramount concern I think I would
> rather carry two of those little storage devices than a laptop plus a
> drive.
>
> My two cents.
>
>
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Garth wrote:
>
>> NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> What portable storage devices are folks using that support Olympus
>>> Raw
>>> files? Apparently the Epson P 2000 doesn't support .orf.
>>
>> Bill, all of the devices I've looked at don't seem to support .ORF,
>> but
>> that doesn't mean you can't use them as *storage* devices -- it just
>> means you can't preview the images on the device's built-in viewing
>> screen. I've looked at the Epson ones, but the one that truly
>> intrigues
>> me (and is supposed to be available later this summer) is the "Jobo
>> Giga
>> Vu PRO evolution," reviewed by Rob Galbraith here:
>>
>
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