 | Traveling with digital... |
| Traveling with digital... |
Traveling with digital... | ||
| A general overview of how to get your pictures home... | ||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #1 Added: 2005-04-25 23:07:53 | |
1) Take lots of memory cards.Works fine for shorter trips. And if you don't shoot a lot. But think carefully before you adopt a shoot/delete strategy. It's hard to tell what a picture will look like when you get it to the larger screen. You may throw away a gem. And it's amazing what can be done to fix a bad shot. And think carefully before you 'shoot small', i.e., use less than the full resolution that your camera can produce. If you are definitely only going to use the shots on the web or make album prints you'll be OK. But what if you decide that you'd like to have a nice big print to hang on the wall? You can't go back and get the pixels you left behind. 2) Email your pictures home or to a storage site. Maybe. Probably not.This will work if you don't shoot a lot. But if you're a 'big time shooter' you'll spend a lot of valuable travel time (and potentially a hunk of cash) in an internet cafe. Before you leave home planning on doing this, give it a trial run. And remember that 'out there' you may not find fast connections, or even connections that stay hooked up. 3) Burn CD backups as you go.This will work great for lots, even most, people. Internet shops and photography stores will burn your files to CD. Then you can refill your cards. Basic strategy. Burn two copies, check on the computer to make sure the CDs are good, reformat your cards in camera, mail a copy home. 4) Portable storage.You can carry a laptop, but there's the cost and weight. If you go this route consider one with a CD or DVD burner so that you can make backups. There are portable hard drives (PHDs), battery operated hard drives with built in card readers. Slip in your memory card, push a button or two and the files are copied to hard drive. Get home, attach to your computer via USB or fire wire and the PHD becomes an external hard drive. For extra safety you can make some CD backups from time to time along the trail. Basic 20 gig units start under $200US. Larger capacity, PHDs with LCD screens, etc. (surprise!) cost more. There are portable CD burners. Like PHDs they are battery operated and have built in card readers. The advantage? You can burn multiple copies and store a set in a separate place or mail home. [Edited: 04:45 - RedAndy - marked up section titles] | ||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #2 Added: 2005-04-26 23:53:00 | |
| Here's a couple of good places to learn more - Adrian's site - Travel FAQ More detailed portable storage information. The Storage and Media forum of DPReview - www.dpreview.com. Lots of storage device discussion. The Cameras/Computers/Phones forum on the Thorn Tree - Computers Cameras Phones Branch Travel device discussions. Search the individual country/region forums for CD burning information. [Edited: 16:14 - Ali - linked] | ||
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