New Card reader has arrived !

[Raymond Lin]

This probably won't be useful to most of you guys, but if you are like me, shoot thousands of photos in a single shoot, and with file size 25mb each, 8G cards, and have around sometimes 80G to transfer. Using USB2 is painful.

I have the Sandisk Extreme Reader, the ones that isn't available anymore and it gets really good review, very nice reader indeed but it doesn't cut it anymore. To download a 8G of images from a Sandisk Extreme card (from 30mbs to 60mbs), takes 8mins.

8mins x 10 cards + swapping out time = 90mins average to transfer files post shoot.

I don't know about you, but transferring files is like watching paint dry, I soooo want to look at what i shot so it an hour and a half is an eternity. Not to mention time IS money now that it is a business so 90mins is a long time.

Enters...

Lexar UDMA FireWire 800 Reader

For size comparison, the Lexar reader is enormous !

Now...the result to transfer 8G of images.

Forgot to add, you can daisy chain these, up to 8 in one go!

So, i could in theory, download an entire wedding in under 2 min 30 seconds!

 

[Musicman]

Impressive.

I've had a Firewire 800 card reader on my mental shopping list for ages. Well, since my FW400 one got lost. Just not something most shops seem to keep in stock and somehow I can't be bothered to order one on the Interweb.

 

[On the Huh]

Thanks for the heads up Raymondo

 

[bindex]

My Sandisk Extreme came with both firewire 400 and firewire 800 cables, so I'd assume it equally fast?
I've never had the opportunity to try it on 800 though.

 

[Deleted member 19568]

awesome !, can I ask how do you store so many images ? as Id imagine even 1tb drives would fill up rarther quickly in your line for work ?

oh and how much did this set you back ?

 

[HybridUK]

Pretty expensive for what they do though. Think i would rather prepare tea/have tea and wait for the images to upload lol.

They do look and have pretty solid reviews though.