HAs anyone seen or used one of these

[Mthorpe_Davies]

The coolwalker looks like a good one, it's a good brand.

http://www.digitalreview.ca/cams/Coolwalker_MSV01.shtml

I should change good brand to a well known brand with excelent credentials unlike other similiar products from brands I have never heard of. I guess canon might come out with one that you can view canon raw files on.

[Andy_T]

Well, the device is sure cool... but be aware that you're only able to view JPG files on this device.

According to the specs, it does not support Canon RAW, but you might - of course - view RAW files created by cameras from said good brand :lol:

Best regards,
Andy

[DaveG]

The coolwalker looks like a good one, it's a good brand.

http://www.digitalreview.ca/cams/Coolwalker_MSV01.shtml

I should change good brand to a well known brand with excelent credentials unlike other similiar products from brands I have never heard of. I guess canon might come out with one that you can view canon raw files on.

I was torn between the CD burner and the Transfer-to-hard-drive portable storage units.

I liked the burner because it produced a more robust product, and that I could burn duplicate CD's if I was really concerned. I could have as much storage capacity as I wanted depending on how many blank CD's I wanted to carry. But these devices have no way of actually reviewing the image. I didn't like the idea that I couldn't actually see the image on the CD burner and that I had to trust its software to tell me that the CF card files were successfully transfered.

I could review the image with the "Save-to-Hard Drive" machines but I thought that the storage method was more delicate, that I put all of my eggs in one basket and that there was a definite storage size limitation.

The price of the CD burners were reasonable but products like the Nikon were too expensive for what I would have gotten, so I was leaning towards the CD-Burner.

After thinking about this for months, a client pretty much made my decision for me, by offering a gig that required in-the-field shooting, processing, and CD burning; and that meant getting a notebook computer.

Now I can save the CF card info to the hard drive and burn a CD. I have Photoshop CS loaded on the notebook so I can see - and edit - the RAW files. It has a built in Wi-Fi cards so I can upload images at an Internet hotspot, if I have to move them quickly. And I can bring it to the client with a CD for them and their shoot on the notebook. A little "My Pictures" later and they see the results and I don't have to use whatever computer - and monitor - that they have laying around.

Now there's no doubt that a notebook computer is more money but it also does a lot more. If the Nikon was half the price then it's portablity might make it a better solution for straight out storage, but you might want to consider a computer.

[CyberDyneSystems]

It definately looks to be the best design for one of these gizmos so far..

It is very pricey however.. but that "list" street may be well under $500.00

There are reslly only two things I'd change;

1: Support for other RAW files of course.. so I could use it :)

2: With the stylish interface,.. and capacity.. I think Nikon SHOULD have given it full MP3 playback support. There is nothing stopping them from including this.. and though it clearly does not interest all digital users.. it does interest some... and the device is allready virtually the same thing as an Ipod.. why not let us kill two birds with one stone.

Lastly.. what on earth is the remote for? Again.. were it an MP3 player I could se the usefullnes.. I guess playback of images on a tv? well.. here we are back to it being a media player..

All in all.. it looks like the best of the bunch.. especially of you shoot Nikon RAW :)

[Motorsports Photo]

Lastly.. what on earth is the remote for? Again.. were it an MP3 player I could se the usefullnes.. I guess playback of images on a tv?

Hee hee I saw that too. Maybe the remote has an alarm feature so if you lose it in the forest you can find it by making it beep. :lol:

I like the idea of the BIG scrren on the Epson P100, but what were they thinking about with storage of only 10gb. All the others are 20-40gb!!

-Pete

[roanjohn]

Remote control - while viewing images on your TV.

What's Canon's answer to this?? Just kidding.

It looks sweet............Very expensive though.

Ro1

[iwatkins]

Pete,

I've been talking at length to the Epson product people (In the UK anyway). They know the P-1000 fell short, hence they are not really pushing it. Expect bigger and better things is all I can say. ;)

I mean, never mind the 10Gb hard disk, what about the USB 1.1 only ? What, were they mad ? :roll:

Anyway, watch this space.

When it comes down to it, I would much happier if Canon just brought out the equivelent of the CoolWalker, but with a red stripe ;)

Cheers

Ian

[Canuck]

There is the FlashTrax drive...:)