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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 |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
"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 |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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 |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Samuel Johnson "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw Marc "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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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. "Craig Jones" a écrit dans le message de 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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(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. |
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"Marc" wrote in news:bp0da5$1tbv$2
@agate.berkeley.edu: http://www.steves-digicams.com/digital_wallet.html Sounds like a great solution, but Minds@Work (company that made the digital wallet) is out of business. See http://www.geocities.com/thedigitalwallet/ jb |
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"Runge" wrote in news:bp0inq$u17$1@news-
reader4.wanadoo.fr: X's-Drive They look cool. Is anyone selling them in the U.S.? |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
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JB wrote: "Runge" wrote in news:bp0inq$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. -- Jon Bell Presbyterian College Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA |
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