Photo Safe II backs up your photos on the go

Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:59PM EDT

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You're on vacation and you want to take as many pictures as you possibly can. One problem: Your memory card is now full, and you have to run back to you hotel room to save those pictures in your computer. Sound familiar?

Digital Foci introduced a handy portable storage device called Photo Safe II that includes a built-in card reader that's compatible with most memory card formats, including CF Type I (including Extreme III, IV, UDMA), xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, and MS Pro Duo.

CNET says you simply stick the card into the card reader, press a copy button, and all the photos on the card are copied on to the photo vault in just a few minutes. Apparently, it takes about 3.5 minutes to copy contents stored on a 1GB card and about 11 minutes if you have a 4GB card.

The Photo Safe II drive organizes all your photos in individual folders every time you insert a new card, so you don't have to worry about overwriting its contents. It connects to any computer via a USB 2.0 slot and can be charged when it remains plugged in. This cool little photo hard drive is compatible with both Mac and PC and available in 80GB ($139) and 160GB($189).

Links: Photo Safe II: Digital camera storage gets huge (CNET)

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  • 2 Posted by aprkareckas on Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:14AM EDT Report Abuse

    For the price you could get 3 1g cards. If you are shooting that many photos in a day's outing that you fill aall the cards you must have your finger glued on the shutter. You don't need more storage you need to learn how to edit.

  • 3 Posted by cathyb59@sbcglobal.net on Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:28AM EDT Report Abuse

    My household utilizes multiple .5 and 1G SD cards - very affordable - for pictures. We typically use the 2 or 3M setting. A photo backup is still a nifty idea considering its'capacity.

  • 4 Posted by marciepry on Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:51PM EDT Report Abuse

    Wasn't there an iPod accesory similar to this? All and all, I love the idea of this product, especially the fact that it charges via USB.

  • 5 Posted by cyrusthevirus81@sbcglobal.net on Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:56PM EDT Report Abuse

    I was gonna say the same thing as aprkareckas if I'm gonna remove the memmory card from the camera in the first place I might as well just put in a new card even set on 8 megapixles Im not going to go through 4 1gb cards in a day. this might have been a great idea when flash memmory was more expensive but not now

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