Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

A Review with Accompanying Photographsby Nick Devlin

The Portable Storage ProblemDigital photography is all about moving megabytes: from camera-to-card, card-to-computer, computer-to-ethereal-digital-archive, and all back again. For photographers in the field, the missing-link in this chain is a means of moving their images off their flash memory cards and onto a portable hard drive without the intercession of a laptop computer. Large, costly, fragile and theft-worthy, laptops are a pain in the ass to travel with, to say nothing of their thirst for a steady stream AC power.

The solution is theoretically simple: build a small battery-powered device which couples a hard drive to a multi card reader without the need for wire or cables. Then just add an LCD screen to confirm the existence of our precious files on the device before we format our flash cards for re-use.

Strangely, prior to the arrival of the original Hyperdrive Colorspace from Sanho in 2007 (reviewed her...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.