CES: Digital Foci announces portable photo manager
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 5, 2009 at 12:30pm
Digital Foci is introducing the new Picture Porter 35 at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It’s a high-capacity portable photo manager with: a 3.5-inch color screen; built-in hard drive with capacities starting at 160GB; and a multi-format memory card reader.
The Picture Porter 35 provides copy speeds of 1GB of data in about two minutes and is designed to let you instantly and securely save and view digital photos and video on its hard drive wherever you go, according to the folks at Digital Foci. With it you can back up photos from digital camera memory cards while on photo shoots or vacation.
Picture Porter 35 supports RAW images with zoom, EXIF, and histogram data. In addition, with the IPTC support, users can also view IPTC metadata, such as headline, copyright owner, and comments embedded in the photos. For non-professional use, the IPTC support allows you to see the comments added to photos downloaded from popular photo sites (like Google’s Picasa Web Albums) as they are displayed on Picture Porter 35.
The USB-host function lets you connect an external hard drive to Picture Porter 35 for data access. The Picture Porter 35’s multiple memory card slots provide direct support for all popular memory cards, including CF, SD/HC, miniSD, MS, MS Duo, xD, and miniSD (no miniSD to SD adapter needed.
Available this summer, The Picture Porter 35 weighs 12 ounces (with hard drive and battery) and measures 5.4×3.8×1.2 inches. Pricing hasn’t been announced.
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