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Old November 13th, 2003, 10:57 PM
Mxsmanic
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Craig Jones writes:

But, what am I going to do about storage of all these
pictures?


You'll have to carry around a disk drive (a laptop or self-contained
drive or something). Or you could shoot film.

I suppose the best option for me is to download my
pictures on to some free webspace, each time I can
get to an internet cafe.


A lot of Internet cafés won't allow you to upload anything anywhere, and
free web sites are unlikely to give you even a small fraction of the
amount of space you'll need to store the images (gigabytes).

My trip encompasses many towns and cities so finding
internet cafes won't be problem, but will running out
of webspace be?


Yes. So will finding cafés that actually allow you to upload anything.
Most Internet cafés are oriented towards e-mail and Web surfing, and
nothing else. They don't allow uploads for security reasons.

A friend told me about www.icdphotos.com, which gives me 30 meg of
space specifically for photo images. Of course there is nowhere near
enough, and I'm insure I can trust my parents back home to download
the pictures for me on to their PC or CD!


Thirty megabytes is nothing when it comes to digital photos.

Can anyone recommend a website which will give me a lot
more capacity?


Not for free.

Or perhaps suggest a solution to my problem?


Bring lots of disk space or a laptop with a CD burner, or shoot film.

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Old November 13th, 2003, 11:02 PM
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Terryo writes:

I have withheld buying a digital camera for this very reason (and some
others).


This is the main reason why digital isn't always a wise choice for
travel, unless you are travelling in large cities in developed countries
only. Other places may not have the facilities you need, and in these
cases it's best to shoot film, which is supported everywhere.

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Old November 13th, 2003, 11:19 PM
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Mxsmanic writes:

Craig Jones writes:


I suppose the best option for me is to download my
pictures on to some free webspace, each time I can
get to an internet cafe.


A lot of Internet cafés won't allow you to upload anything anywhere, and
free web sites are unlikely to give you even a small fraction of the
amount of space you'll need to store the images (gigabytes).


Finding free webspace, of course, might be a problem. You can always
sign up for multiple free webspace accounts. Consider taking 2 MP
photos instead of 5 (or whatever) and deleting liberally.

But in my experience, finding internet cafes from which I could upload
was not much of a problem. I don't ever remember seeing any policies
about not uploading. YMMV. Tip: get a little USB card reader. With
recent (2000+) editions of Windows, you won't have to install any
software. I think some versions of Windows 98 also support the USB
thingies. My biggest problem (a bit more than a year ago) was just
finding Internet Cafes with systems running Windows 2000 or newer.

-Paul

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Old November 13th, 2003, 11:46 PM
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Best Solution: Buy a handheld 20GB storage device of your choosing
Second Best: Buy a laptop with CD burner to lug around.
Third Best: Buy enough memory cards to store the photos.
Fourth and LAST: Upload all photos to a site such as
http://WWW.Imagestation.com which allows unlimited storage and access to the
original photo.

I like number three personally as it allows me to have memory cards for many
devices.


"Craig Jones" wrote in message
om...
I'm soon to depart on a six month tour 'round Asia, Australia and
America. One of things I will of course want to do is record my trip
with photos, and I have a new digital camera for this very purpose.

But, what am I going to do about storage of all these pictures? I
suppose the best option for me is to download my pictures on to some
free webspace, each time I can get to an internet cafe. My trip
encompasses many towns and cities so finding internet cafes won't be
problem, but will running out of webspace be?

A friend told me about www.icdphotos.com, which gives me 30 meg of
space specifically for photo images. Of course there is nowhere near
enough, and I'm insure I can trust my parents back home to download
the pictures for me on to their PC or CD!

Can anyone recommend a website which will give me a lot more capacity?
Or perhaps suggest a solution to my problem?

Cheers,

Craig



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Old November 14th, 2003, 12:37 AM
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"PNWTexan" wrote in
link.net:

Best Solution: Buy a handheld 20GB storage device of your choosing
Second Best: Buy a laptop with CD burner to lug around.
Third Best: Buy enough memory cards to store the photos.
Fourth and LAST: Upload all photos to a site such as
http://WWW.Imagestation.com which allows unlimited storage and access
to the original photo.

I like number three personally as it allows me to have memory cards
for many devices.


I don't quite understand why people are suggesting uploading the photos.
What kind of bandwidth are you going to get in an Internet Cafe? How long
will it take to upload 128, 256 or 512 MB of data? Too long.
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Old November 14th, 2003, 02:13 AM
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JB writes:

I don't quite understand why people are suggesting uploading the photos.
What kind of bandwidth are you going to get in an Internet Cafe? How long
will it take to upload 128, 256 or 512 MB of data? Too long.


There are still a lot of problems with digital photography for travel.
That's why I still suggest shooting film.

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Old November 14th, 2003, 02:49 AM
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In article ,
Terryo wrote:
[...] But now I see there are devices on the market that you can
use to download and store images; they are essentially portable,
hand-held hard drives, and I think they have up to 2 gigabyte
capacity.


My Nixvue Digital Album Lite, at 20 GB, is the smallest size I could get
for that model when I bought it in June. Now the smallest size in
Nixvue's lineup is 30 GB, because their hard-disk supplier stopped making
20 GB drives. (If you buy a new computer nowadays, it will probably have
at least 40 or 80 GB in it.)

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Old November 14th, 2003, 08:18 AM
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Marc wrote:
It would be great if Net cafes would provide CD burners for this purpose
but the problem is that every camera has different download software very
very few net cafes are willing to let you load you camera's software onto
their HD.


Newer cameras tend to support a mode where they can appear like a generic
file storage device on USB, so they don't need drivers. And newer operating
systems (XP, OSX, Linux) tend to have drivers for larger numbers of cameras.
These days it's not nearly as much of a problem as it used to be.

In America and Australia, probably in Japan, and Indonesia you can take
your memory card to a Drugstore or photo store and burn a CD of your
photos.


Yes, there are lots of places to do this, especially in Asia where they are
on every corner.

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