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Subject: [Leica] Travel Hard Drive?
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Thu Jan 8 20:22:27 2009

Its called Olympus E series ;-) Helen often will dump a card from CF to XD.

Cheers

--- imagist3@mac.com wrote:

From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel Hard Drive?
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:11:19 -0600

wonder
if anyone has though about
creating a small copy device
which would transfer data
from one card to a second card

just thinking out loud

Fond regards,
George

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On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> That does not back up and after losing a card to malfunction I  
> would want to back up my images
>
> Cheers
>
> --- msadat@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel Hard Drive?
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:54:37 -0800
>
> I think sonny has the right answer, you can get 16 gig transcend  
> card sdhhc
> from amazon for about 30, you but 3 or four and you will have  
> unlimited
> space.
>
> in the m8 16 gig is over 1400+ raw files!
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Craig Semetko <csemetko@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>>>  Wow, thanks for the quick help, Tina, Mehrdad, and Piers,
>>
>> I think you're right--I am looking for something that will obviate  
>> the need
>> for a laptop. I like the price and size of the seagates, but to  
>> download to
>> them do I need to have my Mac?
>>
>> If so, are the Vosonic and Epson my only options for this type of  
>> thing?
>> Viewing the shots would be nice, but not necessary. I just want to  
>> back up
>> RAW files from my M8 on to something small without the need for my  
>> macbook
>> pro. Then when I get home I want to easily transfer them from the  
>> device
>> onto my macbook pro.
>>
>> I was hoping to spend more along the lines of $90 than $350, but I  
>> will
>> spend the $350 if necessary.
>>
>> The epson and vosonic look great, but is there a device out there  
>> that
>> doesn't need a computer to download and is less expensive?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help,
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> NO ARCHIVE
>>
>>  From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel hard drive?
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Message-ID:
>>>        <440b792d0901080805i268f951bk600f581a5a029a09@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>
>>> I think craig is looking for these type devices, take a look@ these
>>> devices
>>>
>>> http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/CategoryProductList.jsp? 
>>> cat=Browse+By+Brand:Vosonic:Vosonic+VP8860+Multimedia+Viewer 
>>> +Recorder
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Tina Manley  
>>> <images@comporium.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  At 10:30 AM 1/8/2009, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Can someone recommend a very small inexpensive device to download
>>>>> several hundred pictures from an SD card on to?
>>>>>
>>>>> Craig
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I use Seagates tiny portable hard drives.  They come in various  
>>>> sizes but
>>>> I
>>>> always carry the largest available because I end up taking more  
>>>> photos
>>>> than
>>>> planned and don't want to edit until I get home.  I have four of  
>>>> these
>>>> that
>>>> have traveled all over the world without a problem:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148340
>>>>
>>>> Mine are older and are only 160GB but they cost about the same  
>>>> as the
>>>> newest 250GB ones.  They are smaller than a pack of cards.
>>>>
>>>> Have fun!
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tina Manley
>>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> regards, mehrdad
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 29
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:12:31 -0000
>>> From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@hemy.org>
>>> Subject: RE: [Leica] Travel hard drive?
>>> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Message-ID: <5ACD6F8180484F3589D49D8A7ED78E2B@your9ya3hf92n3>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>>>
>>> The Seagate portable drives are just fine - I have both 160Gb and  
>>> 250GB,
>>> and
>>> if anything the later larger model was cheaper.  BUT you need a  
>>> computer
>>> to
>>> 'drive' them.  I suspect you want an all-in-one device, for which  
>>> I can
>>> recommend the Epson P-3000 from personal experience - ready  
>>> equipped with
>>> SD
>>> and CF card slots, and a 4 inch LCD screen - USD350 list after  
>>> USD100
>>> rebate.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp? 
>>> BV_UseBVCookie=ye
>>> s&oid=63061067
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2azbx7
>>>
>>> Piers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
>
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