Best P2 Card Reader?
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Barry_Green
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If you use a Windows computer with an ExpressCard slot, you can get an Addonics or Rosewill adapter for maybe under $50; I got mine from Newegg for $25 with free shipping.
If you use OSX or don't have an ExpressCard slot, then the "cheap" discussion starts and ends with the PCD2 single-slot reader, at $349. But if you want the "best", that'd be the PCD35, which is a five-slot super-high-speed reader, but more like $2,000. Or, if money is no object, the "best" would be the HPG20, which offers HD-SDI input and output, a monitor, card offloading direct to hard drives, etc, but obviously it's much more than just a P2 card reader.
If you use OSX or don't have an ExpressCard slot, then the "cheap" discussion starts and ends with the PCD2 single-slot reader, at $349. But if you want the "best", that'd be the PCD35, which is a five-slot super-high-speed reader, but more like $2,000. Or, if money is no object, the "best" would be the HPG20, which offers HD-SDI input and output, a monitor, card offloading direct to hard drives, etc, but obviously it's much more than just a P2 card reader.
emretufekci
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For anyone considering the PCD35, I have one in all four of my edit bays and it is ridiculously fast. The only problem is we have to reboot (Mac's) everytime we want to load new cards.