Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder if Helen will fall for that one: Dear I must travel up front to carry my heavy LEica gear: you understand ;-) --- jayanand@gmail.com wrote: From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel hard drive? Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:24:40 +0530 Nathan, That is an acceptable solution with an M8 and 2 lenses, but if you go with my wildlife kit, which includes two bodies, ultra heavy lenses (200-400) etc., you will gleefully leave the laptop at home, especially when there is no internet where you go to anyway. As it is I am forced to travel Business Class on these trips so that airlines allow me to take that amount of hand baggage on board! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>wrote: > 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