http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/ Engadget Comments for Digital Foci's Photo Safe II takes the load off of your flash card http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
this thing costs $139, hmm....]]>Jul 18th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
I'll pass on the "convenience" of automatically transferring photos without any way to confirm what has been stored, other than space remaining.]]>Jul 18th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
8GB sells for under $30 nowadays. And with the huge drop in price, came a huge drop in quality.

It's a pain in the ass to lose all your photos.]]>Jul 18th 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
Of course, you could always just buy the empty case for $33 and add your own drive...
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9861G/C?fnode=home/shop_ipod/ipod_accessories/extras&mco=MTcwNDE
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Again, i am amused... 100% of zero is still zero... 100% more of zero is still zero...

This came up before when that multi-external hard drive dock got updated, and the writer claimed it had 100% more of some port it had none of before...

It's totally a silly point but it is still so wrong it's hard not to notice... It started an amusing thread of comments last time.

Or maybe he's right? Did it have half a miniSD port before? ;)
-Taylor]]>Jul 18th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/ 100% of the mini-sd ports are new. ie, more than it had before. So 100% of the final total, not the initial total...]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Jul 18th 2008 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
The one problem I have with one of these is that sometimes the copy process doesn't always succeed so you have to do it multiple times.

I don't need the gratification of seeing on a tiny LCD picture of my shots. I shoot and fix up later.]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
For some people that say bring laptops...it's not an option if you're out on a multi day trek or out in the wild where lugging a laptop is either impossible and/or inconvenient. ]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
I don't know if the utility of this thing is worth it and I'll not discuss that, but I work at a workshop where sometimes we design custom electronics, and for one project we were thinking of using a 160GB microdrive...

Needless to say, the price stopped us. Those things are not cheap like their big brothers. Unless they are making this thing in really massive amounts (I doubt so), I can tell you that almost half the price comes from the drive... And then you have the other costs, so at the end, $190 is fair for the work they did and the parts they used..]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
I never had any errors in copying. I also thought these types of devices were worthless until I was in this position and now think they are a must-have for myself. It's not for most people though.

I'll add one nice thing about the Hyperdrive is that you can put in any laptop sata drive in there easily so you can expand or carry extra HDs etc. They just came out with a new model right after I bought mine which is kind of annoying but that's just my luck =/.]]>Jul 18th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
An 8GB SanDisk Extreme III, which is what many pro photographers use, runs for about $100. Or I can drop $140 on this thing and just keep copying photos over from my 2GB as it fills up. Hmmm.... do the math. Even the 4GB SanDisk Extreme III is $61 (4GB Extreme IV is $81). So you see, for people who have a 2GB CF card who sometimes run out of space, this is a nice option.]]>Jul 18th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B001AM5E1M]]>Jul 18th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/digital-focis-photo-safe-ii-takes-the-load-off-of-your-flash-ca/Speed isn't amazing, but copies quick enough. I used a 4gb card and I'd plug the card in, go brush my teeth and when I came back it was almost done.
As far as removing the pics, the Photo Safe will just copy them, but there is a setting to delete the card also.
And in response to the question about storing .raw, mine backed up anything on the SD card, so you could use it as a portable hard drive too as far as I can tell.
But as much as I like it, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. I'd recommend it mostly if you're going on a long vacation and/or with a lot of people and plan to take a lot of pictures.
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