Digital Wallet

[GBae]

Hello everyone!

I'm enjoying the forum and the hints as a new member, thanks!

Question: Has anyone used the Digital Wallet made by Minds at Work? I am looking at the 20 gig model, which I hear you can use as a hard drive in addition to it's primary function as a image storage device. How is the transfer rate? Is the $500 investment worthwhile over the 1 gig IBM Microdive?

http://www.mindsatwork.net/ -----> Digital Wallet Website

I'd appreciate any pointers!

Greg Bae
gbae@gladstone.uoregon.edu

[Andy S]

Hi,

I've been thinking about Digital Wallet as a possible alternative to Microdrive too but from what I've understood you can download RAW images from your G1 only through a direct connection to your PC using Canon software. RAW format seems to be a big advantage of G1 and I would never cosider loosing it.

I'm a new G1 user so I'm not 100% sure the said above is true. If I'm wrong and somebody else corrects me I'll be happy to get a huge storage device for a really low $ per Meg price. ;)

Let's say this is more an additional question than an answer to the original one.

Andy

PS. As a new member I'd like to thank Pekka for his support and creating this impressive site and other members for sharing their experience

[Andy S]

Hmmm... I've just found that the question was discused in the Forum in May

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=281

and there is some info about reading RAW files from HDD as well

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=467

so it's probable that everithing is not as bad as I thought. Still I'll greatly appreciate a response from someone who actually tried to use Digital Wallet with G1.

Thanks,

Andy

[Koponen]

andy s wrote:
Hi,

I've been thinking about Digital Wallet as a possible alternative to Microdrive too but from what I've understood you can download RAW images from your G1 only through a direct connection to your PC using Canon software. RAW format seems to be a big advantage of G1 and I would never cosider loosing it.



Hi,
You can aquire RAW images from any source you wish, no need to have the camera connected. For example in photoshop just choose

import > Canon G1 > browse the desired source

Cheers,
Koponen

[Andy S]

Hi Koponen,

Thanks for your response. Perhaps I'll try DW then.

Regards,

Andy

[Andy S]

I've finally bought 10G Digiatal Wallet and used it shooting last weekend. I would say I'm satisfied with my choice it actually does what it supposed to and even if I go for a long trip and play a lot with exposure and focus etc I won't be short in space, I hope ;)

Ignore my previous posts. There isn't any problem with images downloads. You can accure them in Photoshop, Breeze Browser or any other TWAIN32 application that supports image import. DW creates an exact copy of your CF card each in a separate directory. You can even upload the files back to the card if you ever have a need to.

Though my suggestion is to but a big size CF card anyway because to download images to your DW you have to take CF card out of your camera and plug it into the DW using PCMCI adapter. This procedure and download itself takes some time and somebody can find it a little bit unconfortable to do often in the field.

(+) tons of space for the same price as 1G Microdrive
(+) some people report G1 delays increase when using Microdrive. If you stay with fast CF it doesn't happen.

(-) you have to take CF card out of the camera to download images

[n9505605]

Hi,

Just wondering whether if you move your images out of the CF to DW, and move it back again, will you lose any information such as the shutter speed, ISO settings when the picture was taken etc?

Or is there a way to keep these camera settings information when the picture was taken.

Thanks,
Boshala

[dbookbinder]

I don't have a digital wallet, but in general if you have not edited a file and are just copying it back and forth between the compactflash card and some other medium you do not lose any of the exposure (EXIF) data. You only lose this data if you edit it in a program that does not save the EXIF data when it saves the file.

That having been said, if you lose the EXIF data but used a program like Downloader to download the files and had it save the EXIF data in a file, some programs (Thumber is one, I think) can put the EXIF data back into the file. My recollection is that this will work only with JPEGS, however I have not tried it.