PhotoSafe II to replace a laptop for travel?
Recently, I switched from using a laptop full time to a desktop full time. It’s been an interesting transition. Mostly good, sometimes bad.
When I travel (which is rare, but it does happen occasionally), I like to carry my laptop with me still to be able to download pictures from my camera. A lot of the travel that I’ve done in the last year is for softball tournaments. I tend to shoot multiple games in a day.
Also recently, uber tech blogger Kevin Tofel wrote a review of a product that sounds FANTASTIC for my needs, it’s called the Digital Foci Photo Safe II and it allows you to download your memory cards from your camera to this portable device and then once you’ve returned home, you can download those photos from the portable safe to your desktop or laptop computer.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Here’s my only problem with the device: I can’t rename the files as they are downloaded to the device.
What I do is shoot softball and baseball tournaments. At those tournaments, I shoot a card per game, and then when I get home or on my lapotp, I download with the following rename convention:
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-NAMEOFTEAM
I don’t see a way to do this with this device. Without being able to do that, the device would be incredibly difficult to use for my purposes.
But if it did, oh my goodness. That would be AWESOME and totally worth the price of admission, which is apparently $189 for a 160gb version.
Kevin, does it do this?
posted by Mike @ 3:09 PM
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1 Comments:
Mike, I checked out the User Guide of the device and it copies the image files using the original folder and file structure used by your camera. You can't modify that on the device itself.
However, this could still work depending on what software you use with your camera on the PC or Mac. Here's why: I use the software that was included with my Canon XSi. It will automatically pull image files and I can set up a folder / file structure in the preferences. If you have software that will allow for that, you might get around the device limitation.
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