Thanks for the information. I tried that iPod plus Belkin device and
returned the Belkin. A friend is using Apple's own cable solution now
and likes it, but he tends to take small jpeg files. I use a
FlashTrax which works fine, but it always seemed a bit flimsy and now
the capacity is limiting with 10MP raw files.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Nov 8, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Garth wrote:
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
>> Nice to hear from you, Garth.
>
> Thanks, mang.
>
>> Interesting report on the Jobo Evo.
>> Other than capacity and the ability to control a limited line of
>> drives, is there some other reason why you did not want to "settle"
>> for an Epson?
>
> Well, for one thing, the GVPe will read a CF card at full USB 2.0
> speeds
> -- my 2 Gig card, stuffed to the gills with Oly RAW files, got read
> by
> the GVPe in 4 minutes 40 seconds including integrity checks and index
> creation (it can read more slowly if you want to preview each file
> as it
> transfers over, but I figured, "naaahhhh"...). The EPSON does *not*
> read at anywhere near full USB 2.0 speeds, as Rob Galbraith has
> pointed out.
>
> While not super-critical for me, I did find that when I used my
> other CF
> reading solution (a third-generation iPOD with a Belkin CF reader
> attached), the eleven-and-one-half minutes it took to dump a 256 Meg
> card really tried my patience, and the iPOD's battery was toast
> after a
> gig of images. It's not the EPSON, of course, but slow reading speeds
> really annoyed me, so I thought I'd nip that little problem in the
> bud.
> And reading a 2 Gig card only ate 2% of the GVPe's battery life.
> That's pretty good for me.
>
> Plus I've seen the EPSON's screen preview in the flesh -- the JOBO's
> much better.
>
>
> Garth
>
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