Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]May also be worth considering carrying a card reader on trips and upload to one of the many online storage services Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Hi Craig. I'm with Nathan and Tina AND the folks saying get a bunch > of extra cards. > I've settled on all my new cards now in the 4GB size (not too many > eggs in the one basket compromise) > For me 4GB is about a battery charge anyway so you are opening the > camera. > I really like to have a laptop when travelling for the obvious mail > and web reasons too. > Plus of course you can use it like a decent photo album if you want > to show stuff along the way. > So my strategy is: > Have a stack of cards, copy from the filled ones at the end of the > day to the laptop and put the card aside as well. > If you are carrying the laptop you can add one of those tiny > portable external HDDs as well. > Using ACR (and no doubt LR etc) you can automate import AND an > extra copy to the external HDD at the same time. > That's three copies on separate devices/media. If you somehow fill > all of the cards you brought (and I did!), you can double check the > copies and then reuse the cards as needed. > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman > Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 04:06 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel hard drive? > > Hi Craig, > > I see you got a lot of replies already, but I will still throw in > my ?0.02. > > I travel a fair amount, and usually I take my Powerbook G4 with me. > On the 2-week trip to Poland and Germany I just finished, I used a > big Domke bag as my only carry-on item. It held the laptop, the M8 > and 2 lenses, my organizer, passport, chargers, spare batteries, > reading stuff for the plane and various other odds and ends. In my > checked suitcase I put an empty Domke 803 satchel. Once I arrived > at my sister's, I transferred the M8 and lenses to the 803 and left > the computer at her apartment. Same thing when we went to Berlin > (substitute hotel for apartment). The advantage of this setup is > that the Powerbook has enough horsepower to process images in > Lightroom so that when I came home Tuesday afternoon, I had already > processed the 1000 images from the trip during the evenings. > > But if you really do not want to carry a laptop, then you should > consider the new 9" tiny notebooks from the likes of Acer and Asus. > They are small enough to fit in an 803 satchel, come in Windows or > Linux versions, and despite their small size are fully-featured > computers. They cost no more than the better stand-alone devices > from Vosonic etc. but do so much more. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Craig Semetko wrote: > >> Hey All, >> >> I'm doing some more traveling soon and don't want to lug my laptop >> around everywhere. >> >> Can someone recommend a very small inexpensive device to download >> several hundred pictures from an SD card on to? >> >> TIA, >> >> Cheers, >> >> Craig >> >> NO ARCHIVE >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information