Storage Devices-Portable

While in Little Cayman last week, I had the chance to use a new device I obtained from B & H Photo to store photos. The device is an Apacer with spanning technology. A 1 gig CF card holds about 78 RAW images (Fuji S2 Pro) which can be stored onto two 700 mb cd's, takes about 15 minutes to copy the images from the CF card which connects into the device directly. The Apacer also supports at least 5 other cards without adapters. The price was about $249.00. I made primary and some backup copies of each dive. All of the images were properly copied the first time by the Apacer without exception so I did not need the backups (just being cautious). The Apacer can be brought onboard a boat as it uses a rechargeable battery. I came home with about 20 cd's, about 700 images. The Apacer also allowed me to copy images that others had loaded into their laptops using a usb cable included. Check it out, it is really convenient, compact, relatively inexpensive. Brian.

I read on one of the other photo forums that when disk spanning the Apacer leaves the second disk "open" as if for multi-session writing. Was this a problem later trying to access the disk if it is still in "open" mode?

James

James, I have had no problem opening the discs. Here is the procedure that I followed. I copied all of the images from the disc to a file read by the Finepix viewer then drag and drop the images to the RAW image converter. I have had a few windows error messages, nothing that was not remedied by repeating the steps. Once converted, I then did my editing on Photoshop with no problem. Regards, Brian.