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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: on June 07, 2005, 04:03:57 pm

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: on June 07, 2005, 04:03:57 pm

The P2000 is simply a hard drive with a built-in screen and card reader.

You can't attach one hard drive to another hard drive without a computer inbetween them.

Michael

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: DMcLarty on June 07, 2005, 11:14:07 pm

I have read some on but not got around to buying this unit as of yet. The item is called a "USB Bridge" Delkin makes such a unit and there are a couple others now on the market. Basically it is a coupler to attach two USB devices such as a flash card reader or two USB HD's together without a computer.

http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_usb_bridge.html (http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_usb_bridge.html)

I have the same scenario where I have a Portable HD and the P2000 that I wanted to tagged together. I think because of the Operating system on the P2000 it won't find the folders.

At the very least with this unit I can download to the P2000 and then download to the portable HD using a flash card reader or direct camera link giving me the dual backup in the field.

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: BernardLanguillier on June 15, 2005, 07:15:24 am

Double back up scenarios in the field:

CF -> P2000.1
CF re-used in camera
P2000.1 -> P2000.2

The main advantage over

CF -> P2000.1
CF -> P2000.2

being that you can delay the back-up process until the evening for instance.

It is not a if-not-die kind of scenario, but it would be convenient to be able to do these things.

Regards,
Bernard

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: Gary G Lister on June 07, 2005, 02:20:21 pm

Can one download their images from the Epson p-2000 directly to a portable hard drive, Smartdisk(100g) or Lacie, and not carry a portable G4 in the field?  
If this is possible it would greatly decrease the equiptment necessary to carry in the field, no computer.  Thanks for any assistance.  

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: Gary G Lister on June 07, 2005, 10:01:31 pm

Thanks for the info.  I was hoping to be able to take less equiptment/ computers on the road and into the outback.  I will just need to take less lenses I guess.  thanks again.

Title: Epson P-2000
Post by: Jonathan Wienke on June 08, 2005, 01:21:14 pm

You'd still have no way to select which files/folders to copy where. It's also USB 1.1, which means it is SLOOOOOOW. I really don't see the point.