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The lack of true 24-bit colour did not affect the images badly, and it would have been fine to edit on the storage drive and remove poor shots.
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The files I was checking over were not small - 14 million pixel resolution images from Pentax and Sony digital SLRs - and the Eee PC took a little time to build thumbnails and show full-screen views, but not so much to make the work difficult. Had I needed to, WiFi and Firefox would have enabled rapid FTP of files (first copying them to the Eee PC's internal memory or a loaded SD card), Thunderbird handling the slower and less certain email method for sending such attachments. When it's sand grains you are checking, the camera screen often is not sharp enough. You must be there at dawn or sunset to get the low light skimming the wind-shaped ripples of sand. My shoot included the last light of the day over the conservation zone sand dunes of Maspalomas, an area that looks just like the ideal desert. I took it shooting stock images in Gran Canaria and hardly noticed it was there the power adaptor is even smaller than my Powerbook's, and has a very useful 3m of skinny cable, though plugs are not always conveniently placed. The Eee PC can also record video and audio files. The webcam is useful mainly for videophone calls using Skype, which is built-in and all you need is to enter your Skype details.
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To finish the package its got an external monitor interface and can run screens or projectors up to XVGA or widescreen HD 720p (its own screen is a 16-bit colour). The Eee PC also has OpenOffice installed, giving you word processing, spreadsheets and a Powerpoint-type slide presentation.
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With this (or a card reader for CF and other formats) plus a portable Freecom USB 2.0 hard disk you can create a 160GB or better mobile card dumping system for under £300.īecause the Eee PC also has high speed WiFi and Ethernet connectivity built-in, along with Firefox and Thunderbird, transmission of stored images by email, FTP or web upload systems is included. It also has an SD slot, which is normally used for a decent sized (4-16GB) card to store documents or extra programs. The Eee PC acts as a £200 add-on to a dumb hard disk or image shuttle, providing a better screen than any of the high-end image storage devices. Just selecting a JPEG image file will show a large preview, and next to it, options to magnify up to 100% and scroll round it - without using the Photo Browser program at all. The Eee PC has three USB 2.0 ports, and the File Manager does far more than the Mac 'Finder' or Windows 'Explorer'. I also use an 80GB HyperDrive HD80, which is incapable of displaying images or even reviewing the filenames once it has (quickly) transferred and verified card contents. I use a 40GB Jobo GigaVue Pro, which is fairly expensive and not the fastest at image transfer, but allows leisurely review and 100% checking of the pictures including most common raw files. On the road, you may pay £200-£500 for a storage device to dump your memory card contents on to a hard disk after each day's shoot. That's not what the Eee is about, though. The small touchpad below the keyboard is surprising accurate and sensitive, making image editing reasonably practical.
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You can also add - without using up the mere 1300MB of free space existing on its internal 4GB 'drive' - the GIMP image editing program and Ufraw raw file conversion. It's fast, robust, virus-proof, small in terms of program sizes, and best of all it's great value. And with larger but still compact models about to arrive, including a 20GB version with WiFi that will appeal to photographers and journalists on the move, its appeal is set to widen.Īlthough a Windows version is imminent, and Windows can already be installed, part of the appeal of the Eee PC is its Unix operating system and suite of GNU licenced open-source software. The Asus Eee PC701 - a mini-laptop with a seven-inch screen, solid-state memory card, usable keyboard and loads of connectivity - has become something of a cult accessory following its launch last October. It's here, says David Kilpatrick, who test-drives the Asus Eee PC
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Imagine a tough little laptop that allows you to download and send images on the fly, but costs little more than an average portable storage device.
