hiphop Posted February 19, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted February 19, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) What is your experience with mobile photo hardrive ? Do products like GIGAone by Jobo or others offer a real advantage against cards ? What would you recommend ? size and brand Did you have any problem with this kind of device ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted February 19, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 19, 2007 What is your experience with mobile photo hardrive ?Do products like GIGAone by Jobo or others offer a real advantage against cards ? What would you recommend ? size and brand Did you have any problem with this kind of device ? Â When I travel for a shoot I take a laptop and I have considered getting a Gigaview or Archos BUT Â 1) Not sure if they read M8 DNG files 2) Because I hate the thought of losing a few days' shots, I take a tiny portable harddrive with me and back all photos up to it from my laptop. One goes in cabin baggage, one in the hold - so most disaster should be averted. You can't do that with a gigaview! Â Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted February 19, 2007 Share #3  Posted February 19, 2007 When I travel for a shoot I take a laptop and I have considered getting a Gigaview or Archos BUT 1) Not sure if they read M8 DNG files 2) Because I hate the thought of losing a few days' shots, I take a tiny portable harddrive with me and back all photos up to it from my laptop. One goes in cabin baggage, one in the hold - so most disaster should be averted. You can't do that with a gigaview!  Tim  1) No GVPE doesn't recognize M8 DNG, just the embedded thumbnail 2) Yes it can: GVPE has two USB ports, one of which can backup to USB hard drive. It doesn't recognize my Mac-formatted iPod though.  As it's basically a very small Linux computer, the source code for it's firmware is freely available, and I suppose a person is free to add additional filesystem and raw photo support, within the system's memory limits.  I bought the 40 gigabyte model because it was substantially cheaper, and differs only in the hard drive capacity. I will upgrade it to a 120G hard drive ($80 after rebate at Circuit City) which saves me something like $300+. Admittedly, even 40G is kind of a lot: When I carried film, I didn't normally carry that kind of capacity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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