Handy photo bank

I just got a Mustek portable HD. It's really fantastic as a back up for all
the cards and even straight from the camera.
Works up to 2 hours on the internal battery (that means copying 1,000's of
pics), so more than enough to fill the whole disc several times.
I tested it with my D300 and it works flawless: attach the cable, turn the
camera en de HD on and press the button. For every transfer it makes a new
folder, even if you copy the same.
You can attach any cardreader you may have and it will copy anything on it.

Now it is "only" 20 GB, but the sweet things about it are these:

1. you have a back up anywhere you want
2. even if your cardreader should fail, you can still download the pics from
the camera
3. you'll save on expensive CF cards, because you only need 2 fast ones to
keep shooting
4. much less waiting time for pics to transfer; from the HD goes much faster
than the fastest CF cards!

I bought this one from Media Markt in Sintra, Portugal, for 39,- euro. Think
about it: even 1 Sony CF card 2 GB, 20 MB speed, cost 49,

From my D300 the highest quality pics are 14 bit NEF, from which it will
hold about 1250 pictures! That's a lot for any day.

If that's not enough, just buy another one!

Here's a link:

http://www.mustek.de/eng_/html/produkte/phd20.htm

And don't worry about not being solid state: it handles G forces up to 100 G
in operating mode, 1000 G in non operating mode.

I rate it a 9.9 on the Focus scale.


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