Article:		iPod as Digital Photographer's Best Friend
Subject:		the dream iPod...
Date:		2003-12-03 10:45:03
From:		anonymous2
... is getting closer. On recent travels, I've carried a camcorder (Sony with still camera built-in, using memory sticks), an old Palm IIIx with the little folding keyboard, and a laptop. Using the Palm/keyboard for journals, I realized that the only reason I was schlepping the laptop was to back-up the Palm and to dump photos into it from the memory stick. I thought, if only the iPod could back up the Palm, as well as to store and display photos, I'd no longer have to schlep the laptop around the world. It looks like this set-up brings us close. Perhaps the iPod could come with a PC-card slot for the memory reader of choice. A color screen for viewing photos, and some sort of true Palm integration (or maybe a connection for the old folding Palm keyboards), and my pack can be 7 pounds lighter. ---- Obbie

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• the dream iPod...
  2003-12-03 11:20:07  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Picture viewing exist today on the PC side with color LCD screen, at less than the current iPod price with comparable drive space. Apple should move quickly to make the iPod with color and picture viewing capabilities or loose market share.
  
  You can only be "too cool" for so long before the competition with better features passes you by.

• the dream iPod...
  2003-12-03 11:16:08  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Speaking as another Palm IIx owner...
  
  Some people already do what you are looking for. I was researching digital photo storage and on a photo forum there were several photographers who liked using certain Windows-based handhelds because they could get both a large drive for storage and a decent color screen for image reviewing. There are a few photographer-oriented utilities written for these Windows handhelds to do things like check those RAW files up close to see which ones are in focus. Nothing quite like that on the Mac side yet.