Epson P2000 Portable Image Storage Device

Epson P2000

This is way cool tool! I've gone through all of these type of devices on the market and the P2000 wins hands down. It's physical size, viewer size & quality, speed, storage space, power solution, everything about it make it the best on the market. And while it cannot do a full screen preview of D2X images, it does upload them and display thumbnails. It was real easy to incorporate it into my workflow.

This 40GB storage and viewer device is a real marvel. It sucks up images amazingly fast and on one battery, you can upload over 8GB of images (viewing of images will reduce this number). The P2000 besides having a killer, killer viewer with great quality, its battery system permits easy replacement. When a battery goes dead, pop it out and put in a freshly charged spare battery (I carry 2). How does this save you time?

Epson P2000 The first way that I like to take advantage of the P2000 is editing images in the field during down time. The viewer of the P2000 is of such quality that you can check images for focus. Currently, it only shows full screen previews for the D2H, D70 but it does show thumbnails of D2X files. With amazing speed, you can wiz through your images and delete those you don't want to keep. Personally, I set the brightness of the P2000 monitor to match my calibrated computer monitor so I can delete those with bad exposures. In this way, when I get back to my room/office, all the images are edited and just need to be moved to the computer and filed. Big time saver giving me extra time to do many other things like taking images right into the digital darkroom while on the road.

The next way I like to make use of the P2000 is when I get back to your computer. Moving images to the computer you've got to dump your images onto its hard drive. Traditionally, you have to plug individual CF cards into the computer which requires you to spend time dealing with that process. With the P2000, you simply plug the P2000 into the computer and then all the images at one time are uploaded to the computer. This is another time saving feature. And in a pinch, you can copy files back to the P2000. It is a 40GB hard drive and can be used as such. The P2000 easily pays for itself with its $500 price tag, a good investment buying me time to get right behind the camera again.

03.30.05 - P2000 Firmware Update

Download the P2000 firmware update. It can now display fullscreen D2X files.

(Note: my workflow with the P2000 is to COPY the files to the P2000. I take the CF card once I've copied the files and place it back in my CF wallet as shot. I won't format those cards until I've gotten the images from the P2000 to the notebook and verified the copy. This is a cya redundancy since the P2000 is a portable hard drive. Once a checksum is run, the cards are formatted.)

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