-7- said:Guys n gals out there....
Anybody owns one of these portable storage device cum multimedia player?
Or anyone has a portable storage HD that goes along with your 7D?
Magnus Wedberg said:I am planning a purchase of the Archos Gmini 400. It seems like a really sweet machine. The P2000 is to big and too proprietary for me... the ipods are just not meant to be used as such storage, you need adapters and/or cables, I just want to empty one card in the storage wallet while I am shooting the other...
J.J said:but I don't think the Archos Gmini 400 reads Raw and display exif data for you as compare to P2000.
nightwolf75 said:oh goody! finally someone thot abt it and made something to enable direct cam -> ipod photo transfer!
Del_CtrlnoAlt said:nw75, does it work with the D7D? saw a canon ixus there...
Magnus Wedberg said:it's not tethered shooting, it's just copying with a cable. Much inferior (and much more expensive) than a device with built in CF reader.
Magnus Wedberg said:Exif -- dunno. Not particularly interesting to me anyway. RAW -- the P-2000 can't do that either, it just displays the JPEG thumbnail stored in the header, and probably doesn't support Minolta anyway. And Epson being Epson, it's a niche product for them -- firmware updates won't be released often if at all. Archos on the other hand only makes media players of this kind and chances are that they may support specific features on request. Of course everyone may buy whatever they want, but I think the Gmini fits the bill -- photo wallet, good mp3 player, small size (almost exactly like the ipod), quite affordable and with video support for dull travels...
The Gmini's biggest drawback is its lack of support for CF type II (microdrive), but hard drive to hard drive transfer... I dunno. I have decided not to buy any hard disk based CF cards in the future, concentrating on flash memory for ruggedness and speed.
nightwolf75 said:from the short write-up, dun think the makers of this product intended for tethered shooting. my guess is dat they are trying to satisfy many ipod photo users' desire to do direct transfer on the field rather than to do it thru iPhoto.
of course, even dpreview commented that apple shld have at least made a built-in CF or SD card reader into iPod photo, which will make it a 'killer app' (direct quote from dpreview - which i sincerely agree!!! pls, mr jobs? :lovegrin: )
dark_avenger said:Some time ago, when I read about the announcement of Creative's Personal Media Center (must have been after CES 2004), I wrote an e-mail to Sim Wong Hoo asking that the PMC be equipped with memory card slots in view of the burgeoning interests in Digital Photo Wallet. Obviously the e-mail got lost (no reply from anyone in Creative). I'm pretty sure PMC would have been a total winner had it included memory card slots.
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J.J said:I'm not sure bout Minolta but it sure read my 1DsMKII Raw file.
-7- said:---> Magnus
How much does a Archos Gmini 400 cost you? How abt its battery lifetime?
-7- said:I think, a direct tarnsfer from DSLR to Storage medium is always the most prefered way for us. iPod Photo latest released info. is showing the intention of making this possible...
-7- said:Besides above 3 options, anyone has any other devices and experiences with 7D???
Flare said: