Any small portable devices that will allow you to copy memory cards?

[sunjan]

This may have been mentioned and i missed it but what about a Palm? something like a Palm TX could be had pretty cheap stick the SD card in copy it to the system memory seems like i remember some of the palm devices having quite a bit of memory on board.

Good idea! Although most Palms (or indeed most PDAs) have 256MB or less storage space. The only suitable candidate I can find is Palm LifeDrive, typically sells used for around $80-$100 on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110607093772

If you only need to copy the contents and give one SD card to the artist, the OP might as well go for the $15-$20 solutions I posted earlier...

[duch]

A bit off topic but ...

In the near future if I plan to use either USBpre2>MTII or SX-M32>MTII in the field

Scyue, have you ever used an MTII daily in the field ? If not, I think you should really lend one and field test it for as long as possible before doing anything important with one of those unit. They've proven to be very unreliable and an ergonomic disaster (especially if you come from very well thought and built unit like SD and Sony). I used three different units, all of them failed at some point (the last being the worse, some files were just lost and impossible to recover, if I had'nt been suspicious enough to have a backup ... ).

[notlance]

Perhaps this product has been mentioned already, but it does seem to be what you are looking for:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/681428-REG/Digital_Foci_P19_500_PST_251_Photo_Safe_II.html

This one is more expensive but is faster and has better reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/eXtreme3-Digital-Hi-Speed-Backup-Storage/dp/B0021AELI4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1289314239&sr=1-1

[sunjan]

Yeah, photo storage devices were suggested earlier in this thread, but the OP is looking for something much cheaper:

Hmm that is what I thought...I could get a mini laptop with a large capacity internal HD and a memory card reader for that price for about the same price. Was hoping that there are something which is simple and cheap and portable.