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Delkin ImageRouters Can Dump 8 CF Cards At Once

Delkin's ImageRouter is for photogs who are in need of some serious dumpage, and fast. The basic unit lets you unload four Compact Flash cards simultaneously. The thing takes up about as much room as the Xbox 360's power brick, though fortunately it doesn't weigh a metric ton. If you want to get stupid ridiculous, you can daisy-chain two blocks together onto the powered USB port to handle a total of eight CF cards. Unfortunately the software doesn't work for Macs yet, so if you plugged it into one you'd just see four separate drives, killing the convenience factor of dumping about a million photos at once. It's $149 w/o software, jumping to $249 with the Windows-only utility. [Product Page]

10:30 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By matt buchanan
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markgm at 10:53 AM on 02/01/08
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Is this USB 3.0 or do they know something about USB 2.0 transfer speeds that the rest of us don't?
kc2idf at 10:54 AM on 02/01/08
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Delkin? Is that anything like a Dill computer, a Camon or Mikon camera, or a Suny sound system?
twilight-arc at 11:12 AM on 02/01/08
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I am sure writing a shell script that automatically copies the data off these once plugged-in would be feasable.
AndyMac at 11:12 AM on 02/01/08
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@kc2idf: It's not a typo. Delkin is a company not to be confused (or maybe to be confused) with Belkin.
finalgearsolid at 12:37 PM on 02/01/08
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Wait, 8 at a time if daisy-chained? Engadget reported you can have up to three chained together for a total of twelve. Who do I believe? I must know this to complete my endless knowledge of things nobody cares about regarding crap I won't buy!
mitchel_stevens at 12:43 PM on 02/01/08
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@finalgearsolid:
believe team rojas, if only for rojas' pretty eyes.
finalgearsolid at 12:44 PM on 02/01/08
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@mitchel_stevens:

All right, I'll take your word for it. If Rojas' eyes are anything like Hypno Toad's I'll give in.
oo0cyst0oo at 01:08 PM on 02/01/08
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@kc2idf: They are not just a real company, they kinda kick ass.

Designed with the professional in mind? REALLY? All the photographers I know use Macs. ???
DarkNight_DS at 01:54 PM on 02/01/08
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I kinda don't see the point of this... am I the only one? It just doesn't make any sense.... That and the thing is wayyyyyy too big for what it does. Couldn't they have made it the size of a GBA SP?
gcrasher at 03:05 PM on 02/01/08
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That's almost as big as a mac mini.
flyboy at 03:07 PM on 02/01/08
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fascinating
Ben Zvan at 03:25 PM on 02/01/08
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@oo0cyst0oo: Unfortunately, I know several photographers who use PCs.

Reasons I won't buy one:
1) USB? Totally old-school. Fire-wire 800 all the way.
2) Lightroom (or iPhoto) does the auto-transfer thing.
3) I don't have that much room on my desk.
feckineejit at 11:25 AM on 02/02/08
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I'm completely shocked that this is necessary.
NeoPoliticus at 06:59 AM on 02/03/08
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And unless you have software that verifies that all the images have been copied and copied correctly, it's dangerous. Plus if you are just using Windows to copy and you do get a glitch - your copy just stops and you have to figure out where manually - and then restart the process.