I´we had a portable XS-Drive for some time. It runs a laptop harddrive, reads most card formats, has 10 hour battery lifetime, and takes about 5 minutes to empty my 1GB card. Hasn´t failed me yet.
I'we recently bought an iPod video, which I can connect to my Canon with an optional camera connector. Should work your camera but check www.apple.com for compatability.
It´s much slower than the XS-Drive, haven´t measured the time yet though, but heard people on the net say something like 1 hour for 1GB. In that time it eats up your iPod battery. But beeing able to scroll blazingli fasth through your pictures on that beautiful big ipod screen is just to good!
Hope this helps
Frímann Kjerúlf
On 2/13/06, Laurenz Bobke <laurenzb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
when I got my small Lumix FX8, I also bought an "Imax" portable HDD to store the pictures on the road. Worked fine - while I was at home.A few days into my Scotland/Ireland trip, it just refused to copy anything.I had quite an interesting time finding Internet cafes that actually allowed me to copy my data onto a CD (just about every 2nd day of the trip...).A special highlight were the Jessops shops that renamed and even resized part of the files (not all)...Now, I thought I might buy something decent for my next trip, but looking at the comments by customers I find that there are many similar stories for just about all brands including the GigaVu, Archos, Hama etc...One (satisfied!) customer even reported that in warm climates his device seemed to lose all data, but was able to retrieve them after putting it in the fridge for a while.Turning to portable CD writers and DVD burners, I read loads of horror stories about media being verified - only to turn out unreadable afterwards.Is this just a sort of "publication bias" - people who are completely happy do not write in forums?Or are the risks real?Does anyone here know a reliable portable medium?I'm already starting to look at ultraportable subnotebooks that could burn the data on CD or DVD and on their HDD.I have just ordered a Minolta 7D, so there'll be many more digital files from now on...
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Best Regards
Frímann Kjerúlf
