Can you save Canon Raw files to an Ipod?

Just a thought has an additional back up source when I'm travelling.

Cheers in advance

if you plug the ipod to a pc, its becoming an drive like any other usb memory stick!

David Simmonite said:

Just a thought has an additional back up source when I'm travelling.

Cheers in advance

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Cool, thanks. I thought that may be the case. I'd better get myself one.

Reason I was asking is that I backed up to a Western Digital Passport drive from my laptop and the things packed in. So I'm getting another portable hard drive (Freecom ToughDrive or the Lacie version) and wanted yet another option just in case.

With the apple camera adaptor, yes you can.

Either direct from the camera or with a card reader.

However you can't preview the RAW files on the iPod.

I shoot RAW + JPEG. That way I can preview the JPEG, yet the RAW file is still there for wheen I connect the iPod to a computer.

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Hope you have alot of time. Its painfully slow.

How slow is painful?

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How slow is painful?

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Kind of like plug it in and go to bed... hours for a few GB if I recall correctly the last time I did it in desparation with a current generation video iPod.

Read the reviews on the Apple website for the Camera to iPod adaptor. There are a lot of people who've had problems with certain camera models where doesn't sync from camera to iPod.

The website also lists which camera is supposedly supports.

I was considering this options, but after reading the reviews, I decided not to purchase the adaptor.

David -

Are you trying to backup your photos directly from your laptop or camera? My points above apply backing up from camera directly to laptop.

Backing up from laptop to iPod is possible with the firewire/USB cord, but could be slow depending on the image sizes. Also, as already mentioned, you'll have to toggle the option to have the iPod recognized as a drive.

I think you have to make sure you set the correct settings in the photo sync section of the ipod software to be sure it keeps them as large size files rather than trying to do anything clever like resize them - can't remember the details but seem to remember it's there.
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Worth reading the Storage forum on dpreview before you go the iPOD route.

It really isn't a solution for 8MB+ RAW files. Devices like the Epson P3000 are much better than iPODs and the secondary storage can be a big memory stick (that plugs into the Epson) for the shots you really would be sorry to lose.

That's the solution I used for a 3 week trip where I tok 2000+ RAW images and put the top 400 on a memory stick.

The last time I tried to download a days shooting to my iPOD the battery ran out before the images were downloaded!!!

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I would just be backing up from a laptop and not the camera. I could leave this running overnight so time shouldn't be an issue. the files would be big as I'm using a 1Ds mk2 in Raw only.

I was not going to use it as my primary (laptop) or secondary storage (smartdisk drive), rather as a third back up for what is a very important once in a lifetime and costly shoot I'm about to do in a couple of weeks.

I'm just curious after a portable hard drive failure recently (the back up I use for my laptop) and I'm buying an ipod anyway but rather than a 30gb I thought I'd buy a 80gb if I could use it for pics as well.

Cheers for the advice so far everyone.

go to the sotrage and media forum on DPReveiw and do a search for ipod. Lots and Lots of threads on this topic.

Generally speaking the transfer is so slow as to be very frustrating. about 1 gb/hr.

i would definitely buy the max capacity ipod and use it as an additional backup hd to store photos etc. used this way it is not particularly slow, it's about the same as many portable hdds. that is what i do. i usually have a few movies on it to watch on the plane at the beginning of the trip, then delete them off as i go to make more room.

many posts here seem to concern the method of transferring photos direct from camera to ipod w/o laptop. unfortunately this doesn't work all that well at present. and likewise, i assume you are not talking about saving the photos so that you can view them on the ipod screen (though i do have some favorites resized that way to share with people if they want to see my pics).

there are lots of people out there who will tell you that ipods aren't reliable enough or whatever. while i wounldn't use one as the sole storage location of the photos, i feel it works well as a backup. it has the advantage of frequently being in a different location from the rest of my location. it has the disadvantage of being something tempting to steal. nothing's perfect.

I have the 80GB video iPod, and use it as secondary storage of my photos all the time. I didn't buy the iPod Camera adapter, as I haven't read much good about it, especially it's speed.

I use Downloader Pro from Breeze Systems to copy my images from my cards, and I have it automatically make a second copy onto my iPod. Completely seamless (other than plugging in the iPod), and works very well.

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I would not trust it as a backup device. In our family of 3 iPod users we have had 6 units fail in 3 years due to various types of hardware issues.

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