Digital Foci Photo Safe 80GB Digital Picture Storage

by Digital Foci

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.6 x 3 x 0.8 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000OSG5EI
• Item model number: PSF-250
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 7, 2007

Product Description

Photo Safe - Portable Picture Storage with Card Reader ? is an essential digital camera companion for portable photo storage. With Photo Safe all you have to do is (1) turn it on, (2) insert your memory card, (3) push the button ? then you can watch as Photo Safe counts up to 100% completion and all your photos are copied to Photo Safe. Never worry about running out of memory card space again. With Photo Safe, you can very easily collect all of your photos in one convenient device, without having to juggle so many different cards. When traveling with family and friends, you'll be able to get a copy of everybody's photos so can be sure not to miss any of the memories. --- When you get home, simply connect Photo Safe to your computer and retrieve your photos. ** Photo Safe can copy at up to 3.4MB/sec - a full 1GB card can be copied in approximately 5 minutes. ** Photo Safe works with all popular media card formats: CF, MicroDrive, xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo/PRO Duo. **Its text/icon backlit LED screen shows key system information, including operational status, battery life, remaining hard drive capacity, and active partition (Photo Safe supports multiple hard drive partitions). The Copy Status Indicator displays percentage completed during copy, copy confirmation, and number of files copied upon completion. **Photo Safe creates a unique folder name that indicates card type and copy sequence for each copy task to keep you organized. ** With its user-replaceable Li-Ion battery that is rechargeable via computer USB port or external AC power, Photo Safe provides the ultimate convenience both at home and on the go. --- You can also use Photo Safe to backup your important computer files and to move large amounts of data from one computer to another. Photo Safe is compatible with both Windows and Mac. Package includes Photo Safe, rechargeable Li-Ion battery, USB cable, AC power adapter, carrying case, and User's Guide.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, August 17, 2007

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F. Burzi "Frank" (Colombia) - See all my reviews
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First you must know that the LC display color isn't green but blue, which for me is better.

This little gadget is very useful to store your photos in a trip or when you're on the field. It's fast as reads lot of memory cards. In my case I'm using Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) and all is perfect.

You can use this device as a portable hard disk as well. And with the 80GB capacity there are lot of stuff you can save.

You can't view the photos, but for this price what are you asking for? Just look at the portable media players and you'll find that anything with the capacity to show the pictures will cost you three times more.

Digital Foci PSF-250 Photo Safe is the perfect friend for serious photographers.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Digital Foci Photo Safe picture storage, April 5, 2008

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Suzi Moore McGregor "image maker" (San Marino, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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There's one major glitch with the Digital Foci... there's no notification after you download that says everything went ok. I like a little positive confirmation before wiping my flash card clean, saying my images were copied and there were no errors.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal travel companion for flash-based HD camcorders and high megapixel cameras, March 24, 2008

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K. Lam (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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I have a Canon Powershot TX1 combo 7.1 MP still camera plus 720p HD video camcorder. The video eats flash storage at a rate of 8 GB per 28 min! So the Digital Foci Photo Safe (I got the 120 GB version) is the perfect travel companion for one of these new flash-based HD camcorders. The Photo Safe does one thing and one thing only: it copies the contents of a flash card to its hard drive. That's it.

There are two buttons: one is on/off, the other is multi-use. You stick in the flash card (including SDHC), power it up (either plugged into wall or using built-in battery), it displays how many GB worth of files are on the card, and you press the function key to start copying. It takes 29.5 min to copy a full 8 GB card, and on a full charge I was able to copy two full 8 GB cards; the battery died about half way through copying the 3rd 8 GB card. In other words, on a full charge, it will do a little over an hour of copying. Of course, you can always plug it in while copying, but it's useful to know how much it'll do on batteries alone. During copying, it shows the progress in percent. For each card it copies, it creates a folder named by the card type and a 4-digit sequential number. So the seventh SD card it copies is named SD0007. That's it. That's all it does. And it does do it very well and reliably. But there are no file management capabilities, except showing how full the hard drive is. You can't selectively delete copied folders, the crude LCD can't display photos (need to step up to more expensive media players to do that), and it can't copy only new files in a card.

But the added bonus is that it serves as an extra external hard drive with a built-in flash card reader (there aren't many flash card readers capable of reading SDHC cards as of Decembr 2007). When connected to a PC via USB, it is powered by the USB port and doesn't need the power adapter.

Overall, I am very satisfied with this product and, knowing what it does and doesn't do, it is highly recommended as a simple and reliable device to back up flash cards while travelling. It's the ideal companion to new flash-based high-def camcorders or even high megapixel cameras.