Storage of photos whilst travelling?

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

"Craig Jones" wrote
| 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?

It almost certainly will be, especially if you are using high-resolution
images (2megapixel or more) intended for printing.

If you are confident you can get internet cafe access with the facilities,
burn your pictures onto two 2 CDRs - keep one and post the other home. If
you are less confident that you will be able to use internet cafes,
especially if your camera requires special drivers, consider a portable hard
drive solution (multimedia jukebox) with an inbuilt (or optional add-on)
card reader, such as those made by Archos. They will allow you to transfer
photos off the camera's memory card (assuming your camera uses a compatible
type of card) into the unit's hard disk using its inbuilt reader - i.e. you
do not need a PC at all.

You still might want to consider a periodic backup to a CDR though
especially if it will be a long, once-in-a-lifetime trip.

Owain

My solution was to buy a laptop and burn the initial downloads to a CD
every couple of days. It somewhat depends on your file size & card
storage capacity. If you are using 5 Mb files you run thru things
fairly fast and will need significant access. If you are doing 1 Mb or
less and have a couple of 512 Mb cards you can manage an occasional trip
to a computer cafe and try to get a USB CD burner.

Another option would be to get your one web site with significant
storage capacity and save to there. Compared to a laptop the cost would
be small but you would be searching out links locally.

FFM

Craig Jones wrote:

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

On 13 Nov 2003 07:54:27 -0800, (Craig Jones)
wrote:

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?

If you're going to be heading to a lot of cities, most photo
developers will back up the stuff for you from the card to a CD. That
will probably give you a partially filled CD per full card, so you may
want to invest in a couple of larger memory cards than a larger
number of small ones, since you'll end up with fewer CDs to carry
around

If you have frequent access to internet cafes, and if they'll allow
you to connect a camera and upload pictures (not all of them will),
you might want to consider something like

www.offexploring.com

You get your own free website, which even a novice can update as you
go, with unlimited free photo uploads, so friends and family can
follow your trip as you travel

Brian

Your going to find that unless you are taking relatively low quality images
with files under 2.5 megapixels that this is not very satisfactory. When I
travel I shoot 30-80 images a day at 3-3.8 megapixels. It will take you a
long time to upload that much data. The two best, but costly, solutions are
a "Digital Wallet" http://www.steves-digicams.com/digital_wallet.html or a
Laptop with a CD Burner. Cheaper, but less effective is to just invest
in the memory for your camera. Last time I went to E. Europe I took three
256 megapixel memory cards for my camera. That was enough for 2 weeks, but
I had to delete bad pics to make it work. For six months a laptop will be
much cheaper than memory cards. I think you should be able to get a used
laptop with the minimum requirements for this purpose in the $6-800 range.

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.

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.


Try posting this question to rec.photo.digital they see this question all
the time. Sombody may have newer solutions than I do.
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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

Hi
Well I use an X's-Drive which holds 60GB, so thats quite enough to hold all
the pics I need...
Every evening i download my pics on the drive that works quite nicely on
it's own battery.
It's not bulky and not heavy.


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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

(Craig Jones) wrote in message . com...

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?


I have withheld buying a digital camera for this very reason (and some
others). 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. Of course, it's one more thing to pack and take with you,
but it seems a reasonable solution.

"Marc" wrote in news:bp0da5$1tbv$2
@agate.berkeley.edu:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/digital_wallet.html

Sounds like a great solution, but Minds@Work (company that made the digital
wallet) is out of business. See http://www.geocities.com/thedigitalwallet/

jb

"Runge" wrote in news:bp0inq$u17$1@news-
reader4.wanadoo.fr:

X's-Drive

They look cool. Is anyone selling them in the U.S.?

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JB wrote:
"Runge" wrote in news:bp0inq$u17$1@news-
reader4.wanadoo.fr:

X's-Drive

They look cool. Is anyone selling them in the U.S.?

I don't know about the X-Drive specifically, but on my big trip last
summer I used a 20-GB Nixvue Digital Album Lite, which is the same basic
idea. I bought it from B&H in New York: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/.
Follow the menus to Digital Photography - General Accessories - Data
Transfer & Storage Devices - Stand Alone Data Storage.

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