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03/03/2007 12:10:22 PM · #1 |
hey how many people have one of this awesome looking epson multimedia storage devices??
here's a review of a recent model:
//www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/epson_p5000_multimedia_storage_viewer/
i'd love to get some feedback on how good they are ... any experiences?
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03/03/2007 01:48:49 PM · #2 |
| I bought the P-2000 (40gb) model in April a year ago, and I didn't use it as much as I imagined I would. It worked very well and the screen resolution was superb, however the graphics were on the slow side even after the photo had been uploaded into the device. Ended up selling mine on eBay a month or so back. |
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03/03/2007 03:22:36 PM · #3 |
i adore mine! it is great, I do not use it everyday, but when I travel i.e. to kenya for long trips, it is fast holds lot easy to view to delete images and portable/small enough to carry on trips.
I loved first one so much I bought a second.... mine are both the earlier p-2000 models, can only imagine them getting better tho |
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03/03/2007 03:42:29 PM · #4 |
I have one as well....bought it last year before our trip back to Oregon. I don't use it a lot but I love having it. It's handy for me to download my stuff to it as I take a lot of different pictures for my employent and use my own camera .... I backup and then don't worry if I did or didn't when I download my stuff at work.
I was able to pick one up over on fredmiranda for $300 and it was like brand spankin' new...the guy had only used it once for a trip.
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03/03/2007 10:17:55 PM · #5 |
anyone else??
bump for the morning crowd.
if anyone owns one and is looking to upgrade, i would be interested in buying one to try it out.
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03/03/2007 11:34:39 PM · #6 |
| I've got a p2000 and am very pleased with it. |
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03/04/2007 09:20:58 AM · #7 |
I've had the P2000 for quite awhile now. Yesterday I shot nearly 4000 Lacrosse pictures here in Las Vegas using only two memory cards. At the end of each game, I simply dumped my images down to the P2000 and put the other card back in the camera and moved on to the next game. It works great! :-)
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03/04/2007 09:57:01 AM · #8 |
I have a P4000. I took it to Africa and a recent trip to Vancouver. I still have the Africa pictures on it and have added the Vancouver ones. Still more room available.
If you shoot RAW consider the new models as they allow you to zoom on the RAW files for checking focus etc. |
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03/04/2007 11:31:53 AM · #9 |
not sure if you want this thread to be a debate or not, but i have thought about an epson a bit and think maybe a micro-laptop might be more suited to me. As long as I can shoot all day long on the cards I have, I can then download them to the small laptop in the evening. This way I would also have a light-travel friendly computer to email / chat with in the evening (assuming the storage device would be used on some sort of travelling trip)
if the storage device was for a day event, perhaps an epson would be more suited.
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03/06/2007 08:44:12 AM · #10 |
I use a screenless portable hard drive. It works very well, but it is a bit slow. I've heard that some of the more recent devices have much faster download times, for example 1-2 minutes for a GB. Mine takes around 20 minutes+ to download 1GB.
I used it successfully with a 1GB and a 4GB CF card, but if I get any more jobs, I will probably want to get a faster enclosure... It was quite a juggling act with those two cards... and I would likely get a larger HD for it. 40GB just doesn't really cut it when shooting RAW. I won't EBay mine, but I would probably sell it off...
The Epson screen is fantastic, and it's kinda nice to be able to check RAW, but in practice, I'd probably be much more likely to be checking my pics at full zoom in-camera when I would have a better chance to redo a shot...
I will add though that I have a PDA with a 3.6 inch VGA screen that is very close to the Epson's screen in quality, and two picture viewing programs that allow minor to major editing... One program does gradients, layers and just about anything else you could want... although it has rather poor memory management, so I wouldn't want to use it for serious post processing on anything larger than a DPC sized pic. |
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