Digital Foci Photo Safe Review:

Having Digital Foci Photo Safe with you means having a place to save your precious pictures so you can keep snapping away. Just insert the digital camera memory card into Digital Foci Photo Safe and directly download images  no cumbersome cabling or computer needed. Photo Safe frees up expensive memory card space and lets you reuse your memory card to keep shooting. When you get home, simply connect Digital Foci Photo Safe to your computer to retrieve your saved pictures. **Digital Foci Photo Safe easily copies the entire content of your memory card with the convenient one-touch Auto Copy button with copy speeds of up to 3.4MB/sec, so a full 1GB card can be copied in approximately 5 minutes. **Digital Foci Photo Safe works with all popular media card formats, including CF, MicroDrive, xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, and MS 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). **Copy status indicator displays percentage completed during copy, copy confirmation, and number of files copied upon completion. **A unique folder name that indicates media card type and copy sequence is automatically created for each copy task to help you keep organized.**With its user-replaceable Li-Ion battery that is rechargeable via computer USB port or external AC power, Digital Foci Photo Safe provides the ultimate convenience both at home and on the go.**When connected to a computer, Digital Foci Photo Safe also functions as an external hard drive and memory card reader. Use Photo Safe to back up and archive digital images, music and important files from your computer through its high-speed USB 2 connection. Digital Foci Photo Safe is compatible with both Windows and Mac.

Digital Foci Photo Safe User Said:

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 Digital Foci 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 Digital Foci Photo Safe 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.

—– By K. Lam

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