Picture Porter 35 PPR-350 500GB Digital Photo Manager with 3.5-Inch LCD Display

Nothing was mentioned in the description about the device not working with CF Cards with speeds over 30 MG/Sec. A little slip of paper was inserted in the box to tell me this. Therefore, the Picture Porter 35 is headed back to Amazon. I liked the fact that I could store up to 500 GB and that I could view my RAW images when traveling. It meant I did not have to lug my computer with me. I will be looking into other devices to free up CF disk space. Oh, one more thing about the Picture Porter 35: Even using the included USB adapter with my camera, as was recommended, I had no luck.

Bravo! This does the job when it comes to backing up and copying compact flash cards on the go. For added assurance, you can display the images on the built-in screen. The size is a tad on the large side, but still light and portable; build quality is OK; the screen is functional (though text is not very readable and looks like a badly resized bitmap); you can power it from a USB port; it has a battery; it works with NEF files amongst others; the UI is straightforward, functional and mostly consistent. All in all it just works. It would be nice if it could recognize memory card serial numbers or some such thing and do incremental backups without the user having to remember and select the right destination folder. And it would be nice if it was smaller. But in the category of "backup compact flash cards on the go" there's nothing to beat it, as far as I can tell. Update: I used the device on and off. After a while it died. Then it miraculously recovered, but the hard disk was corrupted. After reformatting the drive, it worked again, but repeatedly shut down in the middle of transfers. Turns out that the device does not support fast / UDMA compact flash card. It stands to reason that if you're in the market for a half-terabyte device of backup, you're probably going to be using high speed cards, right? The description now says "Note that some high-speed UDMA CF cards are not compatible. Typically, cards rated as 200x or 30MB/s or higher will not be compatible." and I'm pretty sure it didn't say that when I bought it. In any event given these reliability and compatibility problems, my Picture Porter is now a doorstop and I'll see whether I can cut my losses by returning it to Amazon.

I find it very difficult to use! Wanted my wife to able to use it to store her digital pictures on until I put them in the iMac. If someone knows how to simplify storing photos on this please let me know!

This is a great back up device. When traveling it is always good to have assurance that your photos will make it home. Flash cards can be lost or go bad, and cameras can be stolen. I back up my photos at the end of the day and even review them on this device. The technology is a bit clunky and I had trouble locating a place to purchase this device too. All of Epson's similiar products have been dropped from production. This unit could have featured a much smaller footprint by using a smaller drive hard drive or even a SSD. The storage capacity was more than enough for extended trips.The display was average with some trouble viewing in bright light. Since I was indoors reviewing the photos this wasn't really a problem. The controls were easy to learn without the instruction manual. It also seems to keep a decent battery charge.I would buy this again.

I found the Digital Foci very simple to learn to use. I like that you can see thumbnails of the images, titles and some of the metadata. Very simple and quick to download a couple of hundred images from a 16 GB Compact Flash Card to the device and then download them to the computer when I got home. I bought the device so that I wouldn't have to carry my heavy laptop with me on trips. I highly recommend this device.

Reformats your card so once it is in the Picture Porter, your card is blank. I wanted it for dual backup. Have not found a way to save the card once loaded into Porter.

If this device worked as it should, it would be wonderful. Unfortunately, it is always freezing - even without any memory card inserted or USB cable attached! I recently took it on a trip as a 3rd back-up (after my external hard drive and my laptop), and thank goodness it was not #1 or #2. It was routinely out of commission. The device should come with an opened paper-clip attached to it, because that's going to be your best friend with this thing (needed to press the reset button on the back). It's going back.

I wanted to copy all the pictures I took while in Alaska so I had a second copy. In addition I wanted to be able to look at them later. This product was really exceptional and you could also plug it into the TV and watch the as a slide show. Battery lasted but I would recommend an extra one since it takes 3 hrs to fully charge.