ipod contacts and photo transfer

Antonio Correia

I bought my 60 Gb ipod for 3 reasons:

• Transfer photos from my Canon 20 D when I am travelling
• Travel with business information from one computer to another
• Have a complete list of my contacts

I do not know how to write directly on the ipod the contacts.
Can you give me a hint please ?:dunno

I will buy the connector for the pictures transfer later on.
Do you have any experience about this ?
Does it work nicely ?:dunno

Thank you.:thumb

marlof

There's no way to enter contacts on the device, other than through synchronization. I've only tried this on Windows: you can sync your contacts from a PIM like Outlook through iTunes. I'm sure either iTunes for the Mac has similar functionality (with Address Book), or may be it even uses iSync?

You will be disappointed with the photo storage. My review is only a few words long: it sucks on the road! Speed is dog slow, and it's killing your battery life of both your camera and your iPod. To proof that I'm not alone: Mike Lane had some experience too, as you can read in another thread. His words: EDIT: The iPod is not a good solution for portable storage. Move along, move along.....

Enjoy the iPod for music storage, for data storage, for picture viewing (when synchrnoized...) but save the bucks for the camera connector and put those towards another Portable Storage Device.

Mike Lane

Antonio Correia wrote:

Transfer photos from my Canon 20 D when I am travelling

Forget about it. The iPod maybe could be cool for that, but it isn't. Believe me, it sucks.

Now with anapod explorer you could very likely have a way to sync biz docs and other files from your computer.

Antonio Correia

ipod sucks

Mike Lane wrote:

Forget about it. The iPod maybe could be cool for that, but it isn't. Believe me, it sucks.
Now with anapod explorer you could very likely have a way to sync biz docs and other files from your computer.

I am going to cry or puke ...:puke
The thing was expensive (rather) am I do not want it for music but only for the contacts and the photos...
I should have posted before and not after the purchase. :bash
Thank you. Very kind of you to give me these sad notes...:):

mr peas

pfft, at least you have an ipod so you can listen to tunes while you take photos

Mike Lane

mr peas wrote:

pfft, at least you have an ipod so you can listen to tunes while you take photos

Inspiration man, inspiration!

cmason

http://photonotes.org/reviews/digital-camera-link/

Antonio Correia

you make me laight
Inspiration man, inspiration!:D
Yes, yes... you are teasing me with reason....:D
Now, as you are so clever my friends, you tell me:
What shall I buy to store my pictures on travel ?

Quote:
Originally Posted by cmason
http://photonotes.org/reviews/digital-camera-link/

fantastic link !!!!!!!

Mike Lane

Antonio Correia wrote:

Inspiration man, inspiration!:D
Yes, yes... you are teasing me with reason....:D
Now, as you are so clever my friends, you tell me:
What shall I buy to store my pictures on travel ?

This perhaps?

Antonio Correia

Mike Lane wrote:

This perhaps?

Thank you.
I must go now. Sorry Later on please.

marlof

I went for a PSD without a screen. All I want is to offload images. Reviewing I'll do at home. I finally ended up comparing two devices: the Compactdirve PD70X and the NexTO CF. I went with the latter, since I needed a Firewire port (it's the only fast connection on my old iBook). If USB2 would have been sufficient, I would have went with the PD70X, since it uses regular AA batteries. Both use regular notebook type harddisks, which are user replaceable. I've ordered through jaldigital.com.au, and had good experiences (in price and service) with them. Even with shipping and VAT, they were very competitive.

DavidTO

Well, this doesn't fit all requirements for many, but I would argue that you're better off bringing a laptop and downloading at the end of the day. One thing that I think is important is to verify your files, to make sure they aren't corrupted. You wanna shoot all day on a bad card, download them and then go out shooting again? No, that would be bad.

I don't know for sure, but I would bet that having a PSD with a screen won't help, either, since the embedded preview could be fine, but the image file itself could be bad.

cmason

I am going to get one of these:

basically Google for a USB "On-the-go" enclosure. These act as USB Host, allowing other USB devices to connect and download to it, including your camera. You then purchase a harddrive (on sale of course) and plug it in the enclosure. For less than $100 (with the right HD deal) you can get a standalone 60+GB photo vault. T

marlof

DavidTO wrote:

Well, this doesn't fit all requirements for many

I generally agree with your assessment that ideally the ability to review on a notebook screen would be best. I would have loved to bring my iBook to my trips in Africa, but there's this weight limit in those small Cessna planes, and the thing that I didn't have access to any power source for 10 days in a row. The Nexto CF (with the free additional battery) gave me 30 GB of backup in those 10 days. Since firmware 1.3 the Nexto CF does have full file verification, comparing backed up data on the HDD and original data on the CF card to verify the backup result. Not perfect, but the best I could do.

Antonio Correia

tip
Just a little tip between my gymnastics and my formal dinner:
my ipod is from Aple. It has 60 Gb.
Does this change anything ?
See you.

marlof

Antonio Correia wrote:

Just a little tip between my gymnastics and my formal dinner:
my ipod is from Aple. It has 60 Gb.
Does this change anything ?
See you.

Nope, alas it doesn't change a thing. All iPods are Apples, otherwise they'd be MP3 players. I'm sorry, it's a great device, but not for the major things you'd like to do with it.

Antonio Correia

marlof wrote:

Nope, alas it doesn't change a thing. All iPods are Apples, otherwise they'd be MP3 players. I'm sorry, it's a great device, but not for the major things you'd like to do with it.

I want to cry ... or :flush
:hung Shall I ?

cmason

Antonio Correia wrote:

I want to cry ... or :flush
:hung Shall I ?

So at this point, either enjoy your iPod for music, and might I recommend the Studio-Lighting.net Podcast? But, why not give the Belkin device try? It may work for you, slow or not.

aktse

Anyone consider the x5?
I was lucky enough to read Mike Lane's post before I bought my ipod. Instead, I did some research and ended up with an 30GB iaudio X5. It's not the best for everything, and has some issues like most devices out in the market place. However, it was the best fit for me since I wanted to listen to music, allows me to transfers photos, and use it a portable HD when I need it (USB host). I can find better devices for each task, but the X5 does all it in a that is size of an ipod.

Over all, I'm pretty happy with it.

Antonio Correia

Good for you

aktse wrote:

I was lucky enough to read Mike Lane's post before I bought my ipod. Instead, I did some research and ended up with an 30GB iaudio X5. It's not the best for everything, and has some issues like most devices out in the market place. However, it was the best fit for me since I wanted to listen to music, allows me to transfers photos, and use it a portable HD when I need it (USB host). I can find better devices for each task, but the X5 does all it in a that is size of an ipod.

Over all, I'm pretty happy with it.

kdog

I have some recent relevant experience. I just returned from the Dominican Republic, where I had my new Ipod 60G Video, and my 20D, complete with Apple camera connector. After the first day, I connected, loaded my pictures into the Ipod, and from that point on was unable to listen to music for the rest of the trip. The song index was present, and all my songs appeared there. However, when ever I attempted to play one, it simply skipped the song after a few seconds of silence, and moved onto the next song. So it kind of cycled silently and quickly through 20GB of songs without actually making a sound. Connecting it to Itunes when I returned home magically fixed the problem. Boy was I pissed. :splatI did not try backing up any photos after that because there was no indication that the first set of photos were still there. After returning home, I also discovered the photos were on the Ipod, however, the last few I'd taken were missing. That was odd.

I will say that both RAW and JPG files were in the mix, and perhaps this is what confused the Ipod. Also, I had Ipod s/w V1.0, and just upgraded to the new 1.1 release. So I guess I'll try it again and see what happens.

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Well, this doesn't fit all requirements for many, but I would argue that you're better off bringing a laptop and downloading at the end of the day.

Antonio Correia

Hope
Thank you for sharing this experience.
I do not intend to use the ipod for music but only to photography keeping.
I also own a 20D and I'll shoot RAW and JPG as you did. Only for the sake of having a look at them, while travelling.
Tomorrow I will have the cables and the stuff (Apple camera connector) for the transfer of the photos from the camera to the ipod 60Gb.
I am going to make some experiments during the week end.
I will let you know...:):

joshbobb

Epson P-2000
Even though it's definitely one of the more spendy PSDs, I have the Epson P-2000 and LOVE it. It's got a great screen (if you're needing to look at your pics), good RAW support, simple interface, reliable backup/verification and reasonable battery usage. I used it this winter on a three week trip in Thailand (mostly rural) and it worked great.

Have a look at the P-2000.

Bandit959

I use my iPod to listen to music and tend to avoid the photo/video capabilities. The screen turns out to be too small for me. Go figure. BUT I *do* use it as an External Firewire Drive as well.

Since you have the iPod, have you thought about using it as a storage/transfer device for your photos? It mounts on your desktop as a iPod icon, but if you double click it, you can see that it acts just a like a hard drive.

60 gig isn't too shabby when it comes to small portable storage. Just trying to throw out an alternate perspective.

Antonio Correia

Thank you
for the alternatives and help.

Justiceiro

Antonio Correia wrote:

for the alternatives and help.

Antonio, I use the 40g media gear portable and it works great. I got mine for $120- it held all the trips I took with my 20d in Burma and china(around 3000) with only 12 gig.

mr peas

The Belkin Adapter would be an okay way to go. I've looked them up on ebay and theyre going for around $20 shipped.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-BELKIN-DIGITAL-CAMERA-LINK-FOR-IPOD-DOCK-CONNECTOR_W0QQitemZ5879112574QQcategoryZ48680QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not sure if its compatible with the video Ipod like yours, but these should work with the older models.

Otherwise, you can invest on a really tiny laptop. You'll probably have more uses with that when you're out on a trip anyway. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

But I might try out that Belkin link, for < $20 bucks, heck why not

Antonio Correia

Thank you Mr. peas
for this

mr peas wrote:

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http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-BELKIN-DIGITAL-CAMERA-LINK-FOR-IPOD-DOCK-CONNECTOR_W0QQitemZ5879112574QQcategoryZ48680QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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usefull link.
Best regardards

marlof

I have the Belkin thing. I believe it does *not* work with the iPod Video. It works with my 3G iPod, but is also dog slow and straining on the batteries.

StevenV

mr peas wrote:

The Belkin Adapter would be an okay way to go. ...
I'm not sure if its compatible with the video Ipod like yours, but these should work with the older models.

from the eBay listing:

Not compatible with iPod mini or video ipod.