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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
In (Jon Bell) writes:
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 I'd been waiting to find one of those devices that doubles as an mp3 player and is NOT an Archos brand. Recently, Belkin announced a Media Reader attachment for uploading pictures off flash media to the Apple iPod device, which for me is the "killer app" for the iPod. Now you can bring some mp3's and your photos all on the same device. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...More=T7418LL/A I haven't actually bought an iPod yet (it's on my Christmas list) so I can't say how well it all works but I hear people are generally pretty pleased with them. -Dave |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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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. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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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 -- In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. -- Alan Kay |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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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"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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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. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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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.) -- Jon Bell Presbyterian College Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA |
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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. miguel -- See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/ |
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