I was super excited about the tethering. However, it is slow and a huge battery drainer. Not practical for most situations. Perhaps good for someone micromanaging your shoot. Seems more practical to just transfer from cards.

Does anyone know if there is any way to take advantage of the Eye-fi cards with these. I think not.

But I do like the device. It also offers ability to basic edits and saves. If I wanted I could edit and save shots to someone’s SD, CF or Flash USB on location at time of shoot. I can also show clients on location how shots are coming out. At events it’s a real “Wow”. It can be connected to a computer, TV or projector for near real time showing off or selling of photos.

And BTW, they offering a $100 rebate which brings the P6000 to $434.00, more appropriate price.

Lastly, I feel that these devices are about to take a leap in capability, in the next year or two – with wifi, touch screen, tethering that makes more sense, etc. But that’s just speculation and wishful thinking.

As for the new tethering on the Epson, shooting a wedding tethered with this in a belt pocket is one way to create a backup of everything on the fly. However, I shoot with the Canon 1D MkIII and it offers dual slots (CF and SD) and use it for this exact purpose. Shoot to one card, instant backup on the other. I shoot to RAW on the CF and medium JPG to the SD. That way I would never need to swap out an 8GB SD after a long day.

Since we are talking about tethering I was wondering if you had heard anything about the Iogear USB 2.0 Booster Extension Cable? I stumbled across it when I was check out Joe Mcnally’s gear bag. Thought about getting it but just haven’t gotten around to it.