- Fast Reading, firewire
- Attractive style
- Versatile and Extremely fast
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High Speed Card Reader
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Far Faster Than a USB 2.0 Card Reader,
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This review is from: Hoodman Raw FireWire400/800 CF Reader FireWire 400/800 CF Card Reader (Electronics)
The difference in download times between a Firewire-connected card reader and a USB 2.0 reader is not just percentages, but factors. For large downloads -- gigabytes -- I have measured factors of four and five. If you are a casual snapshooter, you probably don't need this specialized device, but if you need quick turn-around between jobs using, say, several 32GB cards, you absolutely need it.I have this Hoodman unit and a similar device from Sandisk. They perform the same as far as I can tell, and I have two simply so that one can go with my gear while the other stays with my desktops. I gave four instead of five stars just because there seems to be no reason why this device (or the similar Sandisk unit) could not be a multi-format reader, giving support to SD as well as CF cards. In the coming months, new machines and motherboards will be arriving with USB 3.0 connections, and at that point Firewire, already a niche standard, will probably finally die. In the meantime, though, where supported, Firewire is faster -- in this case, much faster.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hoodman Products Work,
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This review is from: Hoodman Raw FireWire400/800 CF Reader FireWire 400/800 CF Card Reader (Electronics)
I bought mine at MacWorld, where I got to meet the people who make them. They are a real development company working for real-world photographers. Almost immediately after I bought my reader, I dragged it across sub-Saharan Africa on some of the world's bumpiest roads in 115° average afternoon temperature, under conditions where almost everything broke-down (cars, generators; hard-drives, computers; lenses etc.). The Hoodman CF Reader worked flawlessly... in fact, it still does, even in my air-conditioned office.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast FireWire reader for CF media,
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This review is from: Hoodman Raw FireWire400/800 CF Reader FireWire 400/800 CF Card Reader (Electronics)
I bought this reader for my new iMac, hoping to get the best possible performance reading digital photos off CF cards. So far, I haven't been disappointed.I usually shoot RAW mode photographs, and my camera creates large files averaging about 15MB each...a casual Sunday morning's shots can easily amount to 5-10GB, and my older USB 2.0 reader could take quite a while to transfer these images into my computer. The Hoodman unit plugged into the FireWire 800 port on the back of my new i7 quad-core iMac and has worked perfectly, without incident. From what I can tell, it appears to be about 50% faster overall, transferring large numbers of files in about half the time. Of course, part of this could be because the iMac itself is much faster than my other computers, but whatever the reason, I'm impressed with the overall performance. The unit itself is small but high quality. Only thing I can complain about is that the cable is permanently attached to the unit itself, so any damage to the cable means replacing the entire unit. I usually prefer a detachable cable, just in case. But this is really quite a small issue. Highly recommended.
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