Another portable hard disk photo solution

mercphoto

With all the talk of portable hard disk and card readers, has anyone seen this:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T7418LL/A

Its a card reader that attaches to your iPod and turns it into a photo storage device. Great idea if you already own an iPod. But how well does it work?

pathfinder

mercphoto wrote:

With all the talk of portable hard disk and card readers, has anyone seen this:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T7418LL/A

Its a card reader that attaches to your iPod and turns it into a photo storage device. Great idea if you already own an iPod. But how well does it work?

The iPhoto sounds even more interesting - a color display with a 40 Gb or 60Gb HD and the ability to store and display images.. See here
http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/26/ipods/index.php

and http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/

It sounds very interesting - I bought my iPod just a couple of months too soon - But none of these devices will display RAW files yet - that will be the device we are all looking for I think - a portable HD that will store and display RAW and jpg files.

mercphoto

Saw that too

pathfinder wrote:

The iPhoto sounds even more interesting - a color display with a 40 Gb or 60Gb HD and the ability to store and display images.. See here
http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/26/ipods/index.php

and http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/

It sounds very interesting - I bought my iPod just a couple of months too soon - But none of these devices will display RAW files yet - that will be the device we are all looking for I think - a portable HD that will store and display RAW and jpg files.

I saw the Photo iPod as well not long after I made my original post. The problem is that it does not have a built-in card reader slot. That would be great. The device also doesn't store hi-res images, only down-sized images for the display.

The problem I see with the Belkin device is its a separate device and looks clumsy. I can't imaging having it attached to my belt while I'm out taking photos. I can imagine this with the offerings from Archos, Vosonic, etc.

As far as displaying RAW images, this would be possible if the camera manufacturers adopt Adobe's DNG format. As it stands now, there are so many different raw formats that it would be rather difficult to have a small device decode all those different formats.