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Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite 120GB Picture Viewer | List Price: $489.00
Discount Price: $420.00
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Brand: Digital Foci
Binding: Electronics
Release Date: 2007-04-11
Features: - 3.6-inch color TFT LCD screen with backlight
- 320 x 240 pixel resolution with 4:3 aspect ratio
- 120 GB hard drive with CompactFlash, MD, MMC, SD/HC, Memory Stick, and xD card slots
- Supports a wide array of image, audio, video, and text formats
- High-speed USB 2.0 for fast uploads and downloads to and from your computer
Store and Share files without hassle [Posted on 2008-04-28]
This device is great. I purchased it as a portable hard drive to store digital pictures while traveling, and it has held up well beyond my original expectations. The device comes pre-loaded with everthing you need to view pictures or movies, and has practically every cable you need to attach to a PC, camera, or TV for copying, transfering, viewing etc.. I was worried at first that it would be incompatable with the new SD/HC cards I had recently started using, but not the case. The Digi Foci 120 read my new cards without any trouble and was able to transfer, copy or read direct from the card without any problem. I took this on a cruise with me and it was so nice and fun to be able to look at and share pictures from other people's cameras without having to look for a PC etc. to copy was amazing. Anyone looking for an easy way to store files from your camera, and without a PC copy files from any type of media card with a minimum of hassle, and with an added benefit of having a digital photo album viewer, mp3, mp4 viewer etc. this is for you, I highly recommend it!
Does everything it is supposed to do [Posted on 2008-05-31]
Great Hard drive for portable storage and data backup.
The video is weak. Not really good for evaluating photos but, okay for general viewing. Watching videos and listening to music is neat. Great when flying.
Overall a pretty good deal for the price.
Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite - WOW!! [Posted on 2008-06-28]
This is quite a bargain with all of the functionality it comes with when compared to Epson's offering. Twice the storage (120 GB) for less money. Not only does it handle the picture storage/back-up but comes with FM radio, stores and plays back music and videos, game, can be used for audio and video recording, and can be used for a external hard drive storage. The picture display is great and the transfer speed is fine. It comes with almost any cable adapter you could need. It is a little bulky but with all of that functionality I'm not surprised.
I have not used it on a trip yet but think it will work out just fine. I'll provide further updates at a later date. Right now, I rate it pretty high.
Rough around the edges [Posted on 2008-07-06]
I purchased the Picture Porter Elite because I needed a replacement for my old iPod-camera connector setup to back up photos on travel. The company (Digital Foci) seems to have a broad following in the digital photography community based on its Photo Safe product, which does the same thing as the Picture Porter Elite but without an LCD screen. I thought that springing for the LCD screen would be a big plus so that I could view the photos instead of "trusting" that the unit backed up the photos from the camera's memory card.
The first thing I noticed after receiving the Picture Porter Elite was the size and weight of the unit itself. My wife commented also on this - "that's going in your carryon luggage, not mine". After turning it on and futzing around with it, my impression didn't improve very much. The LCD screen wasn't as high-res as other PVPs, and the menu system was rather clunky.
In the end, although next to the Wolverine units it had the best price/storage size ratio for storing and viewing digital photos, it didn't seem worth it to take up precious luggage space with the Picture Porter Elite, especially considering its substantial heft and rather limited functionality. It may appeal a lot more to dedicated photo enthusiasts who won't mind lugging it along in order to reliably preserve their photos. Since Apple hasn't seen fit to create a new camera connector for their latest generation iPods, I'll probably end up springing for a Creative Zen or other similar product that has good multimedia capabilities and a built-in SD card reader to back up photos.
Great Features,Logical Interface, Works Very Well [Posted on 2008-08-31]
From the first time I turned it on it was obvious that this product was very well designed. Each feature operates in a logical fashion, making it easy to learn. I bought mine for a trip to the Galapagos Islands (photos at [...]) and it easily stored 3600 RAW images from my Canon EOS 5D. A few oddities, don't insert a memory card before you power up the device, it will mount the flash card in the wrong order and indicate it can not copy files. This is an artifact of using a Linux kernel. Just wait 45 seconds before you indsert your memory card and all will be well.
It is perfectly Mac compatible, mounting as a standard USB mass storage device. I got about 5MB per second copying from a 16GB CF card, very good performance.
I'm completely satisfied and have no hesitation recommending this device.
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