Pro photographers take thousands of pictures, filling up their flash memory cards quickly. Giving them a solid platform on which to quickly dump and view all those pics are the 80GB Epson P-6000 and its 160GB brother, the P-7000. Once the photo files are securely transferred to one of these viewers, shooters can re-format their flash cards and fill them up again, or rest assured that all their work is backed up safely while they start in on another flash card.
Hey, this could be a convenient thing to have around. Who wants to lug around a laptop for offloading all those pics, anyway? Even if you're not a pro photographer, this could be indispensable on a vacation where you just want to get a away from that laptop, and it lets you transfer the shots to its onboard disk at a rate Epson says is 35% faster than previous models.
Best of all, its 4-inch 640x480 screen is fed with Epson’s Photo Fine Premia tech, which can display colors that are more vivid and complete than ever. That should satisfy even the most color-sensive and finicky photog. Too bad these viewers are so dang expensive, at $599 for the P-6000 and $799 for the P-7000.
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By CJW at 11:29 AM ON 08/06/08
The big deal for me is RAW support, which this has, but they don't elaborate. Saying that there's RAW support is like saying "cell phone charger" because, like most phone charger tips, RAW formats are proprietary between manufacturers and even down to specific cameras.
Thus, probably not much hope of it supporting Leaf's flavor of RAW, but a good chance that it'll do established Nikons and Canons.
The most Epson will divulge is:
Photo File Format
* JPEG (excluding Progressive JPEG); RAW (from select DSLR cameras)
Oh, and $600. Eep.
By bigfefan at 9:16 PM ON 08/10/08
I've been waiting for something like this. Now all I need is something that transfers data out of a PDA or syncs an iPod on the go.
But seriously, that's one hefty price-tag!