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not really wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor wrote: Michal Kwiatkowski wrote: Hi, does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought |
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not really wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor wrote: Michal Kwiatkowski wrote: Hi, does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought |
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JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought At one point in my weekend I noticed that I had run out of room on my card. Odd, I thought - there should be room for lots more. So I reviewed the earlier shots and deleted a few that I had already uploaded to my PC and kept on shooting. But somehow, no matter how many I deleted, I could only take one more shot each time. And the camera wasn't showing the just-taken image each time I pressed the button. It was almost as if I'd put it into movie mode... Which, of course, I had. Something had knocked the mode selector and I was taking enough video footage each time to use up the remaining memory card. |
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In article , ___ says...
JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought At one point in my weekend I noticed that I had run out of room on my card. Odd, I thought - there should be room for lots more. So I reviewed the earlier shots and deleted a few that I had already uploaded to my PC and kept on shooting. But somehow, no matter how many I deleted, I could only take one more shot each time. And the camera wasn't showing the just-taken image each time I pressed the button. It was almost as if I'd put it into movie mode... Which, of course, I had. Something had knocked the mode selector and I was taking enough video footage each time to use up the remaining memory card. |
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In article , ___ says...
JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought At one point in my weekend I noticed that I had run out of room on my card. Odd, I thought - there should be room for lots more. So I reviewed the earlier shots and deleted a few that I had already uploaded to my PC and kept on shooting. But somehow, no matter how many I deleted, I could only take one more shot each time. And the camera wasn't showing the just-taken image each time I pressed the button. It was almost as if I'd put it into movie mode... Which, of course, I had. Something had knocked the mode selector and I was taking enough video footage each time to use up the remaining memory card. |
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"___" wrote in :
not really wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor wrote: Michal Kwiatkowski wrote: Hi, does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought "A few 512 cards or a 1 Gb card" will *not* give you 'a few 1000 shots' or anything close. I get 130 'finest quality' JPG shots out of a 512 card. My Canon G5 had typically 2.5 - 3.5Mb Jpgs (finest quality), my Canon EOS 20D gives me 5+ Mb for each fine Jpg. And if I choose to shoot both Jpg and RAW, the count goes down to just 36 pics for a 512 card. Of course the more pixels your camera has, the larger the saved pic. If you are using a smaller camera, and saving in not the finest quality, obviously you increase the number of pics. I still argue for either a portable harddrive of some sort, or a laptop computer - although this tends to be bulky and generally not handy for travelling I think. The portable hard drive fits in your pocket. |
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"___" wrote in :
not really wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor wrote: Michal Kwiatkowski wrote: Hi, does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought "A few 512 cards or a 1 Gb card" will *not* give you 'a few 1000 shots' or anything close. I get 130 'finest quality' JPG shots out of a 512 card. My Canon G5 had typically 2.5 - 3.5Mb Jpgs (finest quality), my Canon EOS 20D gives me 5+ Mb for each fine Jpg. And if I choose to shoot both Jpg and RAW, the count goes down to just 36 pics for a 512 card. Of course the more pixels your camera has, the larger the saved pic. If you are using a smaller camera, and saving in not the finest quality, obviously you increase the number of pics. I still argue for either a portable harddrive of some sort, or a laptop computer - although this tends to be bulky and generally not handy for travelling I think. The portable hard drive fits in your pocket. |
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Buy an X's drive in Australia...reliable and cheap
"Richard" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Michal Kwiatkowski wrote in news:cn5h7n$50e$1 @mamut1.aster.pl: Hi, does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card Regards, Michal. Trouble with this approach is that you have to trust whomever you meet in your travels to do a good job, or just to have good facilities. Might not be a problem in large centres, but if you find yourself in some isolated place, and need to empty your memory cards, you just might have a problem. Could be the weekend, too, and most places close up around dinner time. Very possible you could find yourself out of luck. Also, would you have the opportunity of checking to make sure all of those shots have truly been copied, no errors, before the memory card is then reformated? Too risky for me. Last winter (Feb - March) we went on a two-month trip across Australia. I decided rather than have someone write on CDs every time, just to empty my memory card, I would bring along a 'portable hard drive'. I choose the PicturePad - comes in 20 Gig and 30 Gig, plenty of room for most people on most trips. I had no trouble dumping my stuff every evening onto the PicturePad, then starting the next day with fresh empty memory cards. The PicturePad runs on batteries too, so the outback was no problem for several days at a time, without an electrical plug in sight. Alternatively you could come with 3-4 of the extra large cards, 2 Gig. These would take quite a while to fill up, plenty of time to get from one city to the next, perhaps(?). Anyway, best of luck. If this is your first trip to Australia, I envy you. We had an extraordinary time. BTW, I was fairly careful not to 'waste shots' as my cards were only 1/2 gig size, and they would be full at the end of the day. Shot a total of 8.2 Gigabytes of pics in the two months we were there. I count on shooting at least double that rate on our next trip. Richard |
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"Runge" wrote in news:419f1be2$0$8183$8fcfb975
@news.wanadoo.fr: Buy an X's drive in Australia...reliable and cheap The X's Drive seems to be based in the UK (least that's the web page I found). Interesting that it can be bought in Australia. It's similar to the PicturePad that I use (www.delkin.com) but I have no information about its reliability. It's considerably cheaper that the PicturePad, which to me indicates it may not be as reliable. If it's the same as Digibin, then forget it. I had one of those and gave it back. OTOH it may be a super product. There are a number of issues in the portable hard drive market (reliability being the first issue). I would urge anyone thinking about buying any storage system to go online to chat groups (such as http://www.steves-digicams.com/digi_...s.html#storage) where you'll find out how users like/dislike certain storage systems as well as a lot more information about each one. Richard |
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