On 26 Sep 2005 at 22:23, Jens Bladt wrote: > I too use a Vosonic - a VP 3310. Not perfect, but very good. I had a few > problems with lost files - but that was due to a bad hard drive > (exchangeable). Today I'd prefer one with a image display. Not that I want > to watch the images - just to makes sure they are stored before formatting > my CF card. The battery is a little insufficient - downloads about 2GB > before recharging is necessary. I needd to buy a power supply that allows me > to > recharge in the car (I shoot RAW exclusively). I paid 300 USD for this in > Germany. My fisrt got broke after one year (i steped on the cord, ruining the > connection).
The CompactDrive has no picture display but it copies the data from the card to the drive then it goes through separate a verify cycle, if all went well with the copy the display shows a smiley face. It uses 4 AA batteries and can provide up to 50GB transfer on a good set of fully charged 2500mAh Ni-MH batteries and on top of that it transfers from card to hard drive very quickly. I'm pretty pleased with mine, I certainly wouldn't recommend a Vosonic unit over it. The only really dodgy thing about it is that they made the card slot too shallow in order to grab some board real-estate which makes the CF pins vulnerable to failure, so great care is required when inserting CF cards. http://www.compactdrive.com/ Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
