Are all the Epsons slow?
Would exchanging out the hard drive with a faster one help the transfer speed?
The Epson is a good idea, the screen is very nice . . . but, it's just not professional and it's pretty big for a device that just views images.
The navigation is strange, importing files isn't that slow, but it's not that fast either and the battery last about an hour tops.
I tried to do a gig with it once, the clients loved the ability to hand hold and scroll through images, between sessions, but it still wasn't the best way to work.
There probably needs to be some kind of professional photo viewing device that isnt' a full fledged computer, but then again if it has the words professional photography written on it the cost will go up 50,000%.
In Japan the photojournalists have these tiny little laptops that they download to, edit, and wirelessly transmit the images to their editors, almost as fast as I write this.
Obviously they shoot dslrs and are shipping jpegs and obviously medium format doesn't have jpegs that you can preview, but someday all of this stuff might come together where we have one or two basic formats and everything works in everything.
I don't see Apple being the leader here, even if they do come out with that super ipod because you know it won't be that fast, it will be expensive and it's not made for us.
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