Hi Boris ... Try as I might (and I ~so~ want to become a techie) I just don't see any reason to carry around one of those devices for local photography. A few cards are inexpensive enough, light, easily transportable, and any risk to one's pix is divided up amongst the cards. While I don't have all the cards I want yet, I'll probably settle on a mix of a couple-three 512mb cards and a few 1GB cards plus a nice carrying case for them all (http://tinyurl.com/9mgtz). Bruce had one of those PD7X-type thingies when we got together at the last meeting, and i thought it was very cool. Were I to be travelling, making a long trip, I'd consider one, but I'd probably not carry it while out shooting. It could stay wherever I took up residence and I'd DL the cards when I returned from the events of the day. Of course, having such a device gives pause for thought as to the capacity needed. Would 80gb be enough for whatever the length of the trip might be? For the DS that's about 7500 pix in RAW.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Boris Liberman > Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact Drive > PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries, can read > your cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive. All in all, now > I have 12 GB more of space that I can take with me. > > Here comes the question. > > Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my two > trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card is > filled, I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera. Then I > repeat this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on. > > Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB compact > flash (for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs and as much as > 80GB hard drive for PD7X? > > I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF digital > back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8 MP camera on > his vacation or some other favorite photo location of his. > > What do you say? > > Boris
