IPOD as a photo portable drive

[raist]

Does anybody use an IPOD with the appropriate accessory as a portable drive for photography?

[Mick]

Is there such an accessory? Cool. 

Never used an IPOD my self, but would also be interested in the answer. 

[Jonathan]

No.  I've heard they are very s-l-o-w.  I bet it doesn't work with the Touch either because they won't work in "disk" mode.  Shame cos the screen is gorgeous.

I use one for showing people pics on - they love it.

[anglefire]

Thing is the Ipod touch and phone have a max of 32Gb - hardly a huge amount of storage - my Iphone is already over half full, and its the 32Gb version!

The classic would be ok - but as has been said, it would be fairly slow.

And its expensive compared to a external HD - I bought a 120Gb one a couple of years ago for about £60 - should be cheaper now!

[Colin]

IMHO what would be good would be a card reader for the Iphone / touch where you could use the screen to display photos on a larger screen than on your camera. I'd buy one as long as it did CF and SD.

[anglefire]

OnOne do some software to allow the Iphone (Touch too?) to control Canon cameras with live view - you see the live view on the Iphone. But you need to be teathered - so I can't see a lot of point - except you can have the camera/PC local to the subject and the Iphone connected wirelessly some way away.

Otherwise, a card reader would be good - and I agree CF and SD would be a requirement!