When I travel, I usually take copies of my photos on CDs and show them on my laptop or someone else's PC, but wonder if there is a simpler way. I have looked at the DigiMate III 40GB Photo Bank but I am not sure whether this is what I need. Carola Langford
The DigiMate III is a lot like a portable music player except that it doesn't play music. It appeals to photographers because it lets them transfer photos from various storage cards to the big DigiMate hard drive without using a computer; the empty cards then go back into the camera to take more photos. If you don't need memory card support, you could use an ordinary MP3 player to display photos, though you might want to look at the Archos models with 4.3in LCD colour screens. These double as music and video players, and would enable you to produce slide shows with background music and transition effects.
If you don't actually need a device that displays photos, then USB memory drives are the cheapest and simplest way to carry lots of pictures around.
Backchat: Graeme Shaw says an alternative to the Digimate III is the Vosonic 8360, which can read most memory cards.
