The Digital Wallet
Should I just rename this blog "I love Epson"?
Because it's true. I do love Epson. And the reason why I love them, is that they continously make my work easier, better, and - dare I say it? - more profitable.
First, I bought their Stylus Photo 2200 printer. At first glance, the $700 price tag seemed a bit steep - but in those short 19 months I've had it, I have been able to supply my clients with high-quality portfolio and fine art prints I would have had to pay a fortune for at the photo lab. Instead, my only costs incurred were ink and paper. And the best part - for the first time ever, the printer gave me 100% control over my images. Now I was able to produce prints that exactly reflected my vision and sense of color.
The second Epson feat was the Perfection 4870 Flatbed scanner. I wrote a bit about it in a post last month, and while I maintain that the Digital ICE function could be better, I'm still very happy with the overall performance of the scanner.
Now however, Epson has come up with a gadget that is truly making my heart beat faster: the P-2000 Digital Wallet. For a while now I've been looking for a digital storage device I can take out into the field with me. The two 1-GB CF cards I have for my 10D are nice, but on an extended trip or vacation (like the one last September to Europe), even the 2 GB don't cut it. On a commercial shoot, especially if I shoot RAW, I tend to max them out as well.
So far however, all the storage devices I've encountered were either simple external hard drives with CF slots, or the kind that burns your data directly to CD. None of them offered any kind of visual assurance that what you had just downloaded was *really* on the drive or CD. That kind of uncertainty just doesn't cut it when a client has just paid you a good fee to do a shoot for them, and you end up losing the images due to a read-error on the CD or similar. Sure - a laptop would remedy that. But the thought of schlepping around an additional 7-8 pounds of gear (especially out in the field) just isn't exactly my idea of an ideal temporary storage device.
As pointed out in the very thorough review by Luminous Landscape, the P-2000 solves all of those problems: it's small enough to click into a belt, has a large 4-inch screen that lets you not only verify your download, but also look at your images in greater detail, and best of all - a really long battery life. A 40GB harddrive and a fast download time give plenty of storage and speed in the field. And at 500 bucks, it seems a small investment for that all-important peace of mind.
So it's perfect. Just what I need. It's going on my X-mas wishlist.
Because it's true. I do love Epson. And the reason why I love them, is that they continously make my work easier, better, and - dare I say it? - more profitable.
First, I bought their Stylus Photo 2200 printer. At first glance, the $700 price tag seemed a bit steep - but in those short 19 months I've had it, I have been able to supply my clients with high-quality portfolio and fine art prints I would have had to pay a fortune for at the photo lab. Instead, my only costs incurred were ink and paper. And the best part - for the first time ever, the printer gave me 100% control over my images. Now I was able to produce prints that exactly reflected my vision and sense of color.
The second Epson feat was the Perfection 4870 Flatbed scanner. I wrote a bit about it in a post last month, and while I maintain that the Digital ICE function could be better, I'm still very happy with the overall performance of the scanner.
Now however, Epson has come up with a gadget that is truly making my heart beat faster: the P-2000 Digital Wallet. For a while now I've been looking for a digital storage device I can take out into the field with me. The two 1-GB CF cards I have for my 10D are nice, but on an extended trip or vacation (like the one last September to Europe), even the 2 GB don't cut it. On a commercial shoot, especially if I shoot RAW, I tend to max them out as well.
So far however, all the storage devices I've encountered were either simple external hard drives with CF slots, or the kind that burns your data directly to CD. None of them offered any kind of visual assurance that what you had just downloaded was *really* on the drive or CD. That kind of uncertainty just doesn't cut it when a client has just paid you a good fee to do a shoot for them, and you end up losing the images due to a read-error on the CD or similar. Sure - a laptop would remedy that. But the thought of schlepping around an additional 7-8 pounds of gear (especially out in the field) just isn't exactly my idea of an ideal temporary storage device.
As pointed out in the very thorough review by Luminous Landscape, the P-2000 solves all of those problems: it's small enough to click into a belt, has a large 4-inch screen that lets you not only verify your download, but also look at your images in greater detail, and best of all - a really long battery life. A 40GB harddrive and a fast download time give plenty of storage and speed in the field. And at 500 bucks, it seems a small investment for that all-important peace of mind.
So it's perfect. Just what I need. It's going on my X-mas wishlist.
posted by Simone at 10:04 AM
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