Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT Epson P5000
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Aug 21 16:42:05 2007
References: <5710F0BA-0A97-45B9-938E-B4D203782897@cox.net> <p06230903c2f109c111c4@[10.1.16.131]>

On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> At 9:34 AM -0700 8/21/07, Steve Barbour wrote:
>> Is anyone using the Epson P5000 for image storage and review...?
>>
>>
>> Your opinion and comments about it would be appreciated...
>>
>>
>> Steve
>
> I had the P2000. Nice screen, but slow and sucked batteries. Also,  
> it's extremely hard to exchange hard drives for larger ones.
>
> I now use something called the 'Nexto CF' which is extremely fas  
> for dowloading cards to the hard drive (up to 1Gb per minute,  
> depending on the card), can be used with any 2-1/2" ATA drive,  
> allows downloading 100Gb per battery charge and costs all in 1/3  
> what the Epson does. No, it doesn't have the nice colour screen,  
> but that turned out to be almost useless anyway.

now it's 80gB capacity..also about  2.5x faster...I don't know about  
the batts??



why Henning, was the screen useless?


Steve




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