Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello everyone. I was wondering what you all use for backup when you don't have a laptop with you? I just purchased a Wolverine Picpac. Right out of the box it would not handle UDMA CF cards, so I sent an email to their support address. Within hours, Rico Kirby, their Customer Service Manager, called me and asked me to overnight the unit back, with one of the UDMA cards. He had the board replaced, and sent it back by overnight delivery. It now supports reading from the UDMA cards. It takes approximately 22 min to download a full 8Gb card, 11 min for a 4Gb card. Although it will read a UDMA card, I see no speed difference in downloads between 133x and 300x cards. There is no display of the photo, so you just have to trust that the data is readable. It will tell you whether 100% was transferred, and then shut off. If there is some error, it doesn't shut off. Other than that, it does just what it advertises, and nothing more. Turn it on, carefully push in the CF card careful not to bend any pins, and then push the Info/Copy button. It then flashes the amount to be copied, and you can watch it count up the % completed. It then says 100% copied. You can then pull out the card. It will tell you the remaining disk space, so if you keep track of that you have some confirmation that a transfer was successful. Otherwise, you have to just trust it. To copy to the computer, you use an Y type USB cable. Actually, the Y is just to give it power. You can use a regular cable, but you are not getting any recharging. So, this is a nice unit for backup, compact, but with limited features. Regards, Bob Rose