Epson P-5000
£480.00
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The Epson P-5000 is packed full of handy features. Backing up your memory cards when on location is only the start, this handy device lets you check image sharpness on a massive 4in display and receive exposure warnings on shadow and highlight details.
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The Epson P-5000 at 80GB, and its smaller brother the P3000 at 40GB are essentially the same, they are portable viewers enabling you to backup your images when you are away from your computer.
The P-5000 features slots for the most common cards, namely CF and SD, the back of the unit houses a massive 4in Photo Fine Ultra screen, which gives a wider colour gamut range and offers S-RGB and Adobe RGB colour spaces.
While the metal back of the unit is great for build quality, it can get cold when you’re out in harsh weather. A nifty new feature is the star-rating system, which allows you to choose only star rated folders so no more endless scrolling, which was an annoying feature of the P-4000 which it is replacing.
In terms of performance the P-5000 can download a full Sandisk Extreme III 1GB CF card in a blistering 2 minutes and 12 seconds, which is a massive improvement on the previous model.
It supports both Raw and Jpeg files, you can view them at 100% and 400% respectively, and can upload 1GB to your PC in 47 seconds, via its USB2 connection.
If all of this sounds like your kind of thing and you can justify the nearly £500 price tag, which is the same as a decent macro lens, then you need to know it’s the best portable storage device we have seen yet. Another option is the cheaper 40GB P-3000 at £299.
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Generally I am impressed with this. The screen is superb quality. The idea of interchangable batteries is a real winner with most of these type of gadgets only having a single built-in this is a real bonus over the competition. Only complaint is tendency to rename files on transfer, this is a nuisance, but at least there is a way round it although complicated. When memory was expensive it was a real 'must have' item now it is more a useful backup and view tool.
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09 February 2008 17:55