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Donald Gray
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:05 am Post subject:
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I travel overseas quite frequently and take up to 2-300 photos a day.
I have been lugging my laptop to use as temp storage unit but being a
few years old, it only has a few gigs available.
Going into local photo shops and getting CD burnt is not an option
now.
What I am looking for is a 'black box' that I can plug a CF into and
download the images for temp storage until I get home again.
Does such a device exist?
(No I dont want to lug and external HD with the laptop!)
(I do have several 512 CF cards but dont want to buy a load extra)
Advice on storage solutions when away from home for extended periods
requested please.
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Joseph Meehan
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:33 am Post subject:
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Donald Gray wrote:
| Quote: | I travel overseas quite frequently and take up to 2-300 photos a day.
I have been lugging my laptop to use as temp storage unit but being a
few years old, it only has a few gigs available.
Going into local photo shops and getting CD burnt is not an option
now.
What I am looking for is a 'black box' that I can plug a CF into and
download the images for temp storage until I get home again.
Does such a device exist?
(No I dont want to lug and external HD with the laptop!)
(I do have several 512 CF cards but dont want to buy a load extra)
Advice on storage solutions when away from home for extended periods
requested please.
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OK you will not likely take my word for it, but I'll bet that if you
would spend a few minutes each night going over the photos you took that day
and eliminating all the duplicates and second rate photos that you can
identify you will likely be down to no more than 20%. After you get home
hopefully you will be down to no more than 10% of the original total.
By selectively eliminating, not just errors and duplicates, but well
those that just did not turn out as you might have hoped, the resulting few
will be of a much higher quality and anyone seeing your work will be amazed
at the high quality of it.
It also saves a lot of problems storing all those files.
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Joseph Meehan
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Douglas W. Hoyt
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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| Quote: | (No I dont want to lug and external HD with the laptop!) (I do have
several 512 CF cards but dont want to buy a load extra)
Advice on storage solutions when away from home for extended periods
requested please.
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There are a bunch of black boxes, like the ones shown at the B&H site here:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=search&Q=&ci=3369You are probably best off getting the cheapest gig-per-dollar one, versusthe ones with the most bells&whistles. I have been VERY happy with myWolverine over the past two years.I've also found that other units under different names, sometimes for verygood prices are available at mega-electronics dealers within Europe (likeSaturn in Germany).But don't discount the portable hard-drive option, because there may be bigunits, unworkable for you, that you typically find when looking for externalhard-drives (the size of a hard-cover book) that use a desktop-sized driveto hold the data, but there are also external hard-drives that use themuch-physically-smaller LAPTOP-sized drives--that will fit in a shirtpocket--and which will hold up to 80gb of data. If you are taking yourlaptop, you could simply use the laptop to transfer your CF cards to a smallhard-drive like that--or even better, you could free up some space on yourlaptop (maybe even by transferring it to that very same shirt-pockethard-drive) and then keep copies both on your laptop, as well as on yourshirt-pocket external drive, so that your pictures wil
l not only be saved,but will have a back-up as well (if possible, I always keep TWO copies oftravel pictures while on the go). |
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wilt
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Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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There are products that take digital camera memory and either transfer
the data to an internal harddrive, or which burn CD or burn DVD, all
without a PC. The harddrive-transferred data then can later be plugged
into the USB port on any PC and accessed like any external drive. Or
you stick your CD/DVD into the appropriate drive on your PC.
I have one made by a company called Digital Foci, 80GB in size. There
is no internal (LCD) display of photos, but since storage devices need
to be able to read the multitude of RAW versions (even merely to add
new cameras like 5D or D200!) the ability to read and display raw is a
rather transitory capability until you buy a new camera! |
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Ron Hunter
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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David J Taylor wrote:
| Quote: | Ron Hunter wrote:
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Wow, 2500 pictures. You are quite the 'shutterbug'! I only took 470
on a 7 day Alaskan Cruise, and part of the time I was snapping away
as fast as the camera could write to the card. Didn't your shutter
finger get tired? Grin.
I often take brief (10-15 second) movie clips of things where motion
is important, such as 'dancing fountains'. I find the feature useful
for catching children playing as well, since they are reluctant to
stand still for snapshots.
The 2500 first-level OK shots were edited down from 3500 shots taken.
This was also on a cruise - the Norwegian Coastal Voyage:
http://www.norwegiancoastalvoyage.com/homeset.htm
(page maximises browser - yuk!)
or
http://www.hurtigruten.com/index.asp
where in the space of 11 days you stop 60+ times, and you are near the
coast all the time. Being so far north, it's light well into the evening
and early in the morning. We actually went during the midnight sun period
as well! Movies are great for things like throwing the rope to start
mooring, lowering and raising of hatches, passing a sister ship etc. etc.
Cheers,
David
Curious, which ship. I was on Spirit. |
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Ron Hunter rphunter@charter.net |
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Ron Hunter
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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David J Taylor wrote:
| Quote: | Ron Hunter wrote:
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I think for hiking, I would choose to just buy more cards. They are
certainly the lightest option.
.. but give you no backup. I suppose, if you were in the right area, you
could get your cards written to a CD/DVD at an Internet Cafe or Photo
shop, but I have heard some horror stories!
David
Well, my experience with flash cards has been very positive. The only |
images I have lost were some I tried to write while the battery was
about dead, and the previously written images were fine.
I feel that flash cards are at least as reliable a medium as CD/DVD,
which are subject to scratches, warping, and other physical damage,
while flash cards are quite robust.
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Ron Hunter rphunter@charter.net |
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