I use an Imagetank G2 on holidays longer than a weekend or so. I can fit a weekend on my 1GB Microdrive but any trip longer than 3 or 4 days is pushing it. The Imagetank G2 is made for the microdrive as it has a Compact Type II slot, but it also takes Compact Flash Type I cards (although I’ve managed to stick it in at an angle to see the slim card disappear into the case - I had to open the device with a screwdriver to extract said flashcard).

Before I transfer the images to the ImageTank, I do some in-camera reviewing, deleting unwanted and clearly bad or out-of-focus images. Once they are on the ImageTank, they stay there until I download them at home. And reviewing and processing and downloading clearly bad images wastes time.

I can’t afford a laptop and don’t want to carry expensive eqipment to remote regions with adverse conditions - In my case that would be intense heat and humidity (Indonesia) - The ImageTank copes well with that and it is inconspicous enough not to be stolen.

just my 2cents

Fred

Hey Fred

not sure re: the ipod but I do know that you can store just about anything you want on an Archos. Check out http://www.archos.com/products/catalog.html

I have one of hte older models with a couple of adapters one for Memory sticks and one for flash cards. They go up to 100 GB and include a screen for playback including mpeg4 movies. Mine is around 18 months old 40GB and it’s been on a couple of liveaboard trips and been used for downloading. not sure where you live but i think Archos is available to most places.

hope that helps.

Roger over n out

Hi Lars,

I just bought a Volsonic Xdrive II at Ebay. In fact i am just doing RAW-Images underwater. Normal Pictures are made in jpg.

The xdrive has no way to display any of those pictures but that is no Problem. It is just like a external Harddisk with accu and multi-Cardreader. I works with this accu about 1,6 hours. The copy of one full 256 MB Card is made in 2-4 minutes. After that you can clean the CF-Card.

It makes complete Copies of the card including RAW-Files and Multimedia.

After the Trip or in an Internet Cafe you can look at those pictures by plugging the device to a USB. You can also load the accu that way. There is also a normal power-adaptor included.

Now i have a 20 GB harddisc at 2,5” format but you can also get a 80 GB harddisc in that housing.

In a few weeks i will test it because i will take a trip to Moora and USA for about 3 weeks. I hope it is working fine.

First time user..great posts guys. I recently returned from a trip to the bay Islands of the coast of Honduras on a great dive trip. I bought a 60 GB ipod to use as a hard drive to dump my pics onto. Now I was anti-ipod for a long time but i finally caved when i found the right deal on ebay. With the camera connector the ipod really does work good. Now yes it isnt super fast and it does take some battery life but I truely was impressed at the little ipods ability to perform. I drain the battery pretty much every day. Between music and photos it is in the red by the evening. It take me about 5 mins to transfer my little 128mb card, so that is easy to do on your SI. Plus it is cool to be able to show people the pics on a bigger screen than my camera (not by much but hey it is still bigger . I got some pics off my little on-boat ipod rig. I had this little otterbox lying aroung and I cut some cardboard and foam to hold it in place. I know cardboard is far from waterproof but if there is water my ipod case i got bigger problems than wet cardboard Overall I loved it. I can listen to music on the boat and the plane and revisit my dives. It is a simple begineer solution for the casual photographer like me. Loved Honduras. Reef House Resort was incredible. Peace OUt

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I always take along my Toshiba Tecra A2 with 60 GB hard disc and a CD & DVD burner inside. With that I was able to take around 1500 pics in highest resolution on my last vacation to Egypt without any probs.
I usually name the folders after each dive spot and burn 2-3 cds and in the end of the trip 1 DVD, so I have 2 seperate media in store and the pics on the HD.
Why ?
In 2004 I went to Scharendijke in the Netherlands with my old Laptop and stored the pics just on the HD. I had a very cool pic (by far the best I had taken thus far) of a “Drachenkopf” (fish) and when I started my editor the screen froze and the pic was lost forever. After breaking pretty much everything I could get a hold of :evil:  I decided to buy a new Laptop and keep everything at least 2x :!:  so this will never happen to me again.

M.

Just wondering what folks are using these days as portable storage on dive trips. The last posts here are from 2004/5. Since then, I believe there’s quite a few more devices on the market e.g. Photo Safe, PhotoBank, Media Buddy etc.

I’ll be on a liveaboard for a week and will want to back up my SD card (photos and video). I’m an amateur, so don’t need a fancy system...well, not quite yet

Was considering an iPod and camera adapter but concerned about battery life and speed of transfer. Don’t really care about viewing pictures on the storage device.

Thoughts? Care to share your experience?

Thanks

True, I am using the Canon M80 as a backup device.
I am very happy with it.

I got myself a Nexto ND-2525 a couple of months ago and am very happy with it.

The big advantage of this little fella is that it takes just one minute to copy 1GB from an Sandisk Ultra-II cf card.

It only has a CF card slot, but it also accepts SD/XD/SM/MS-to-CF-adapters.

greetings
kim

nirish - 13 March 2008 03:35 AM

Just wondering what folks are using these days as portable storage on dive trips. The last posts here are from 2004/5. Since then, I believe there’s quite a few more devices on the market e.g. Photo Safe, PhotoBank, Media Buddy etc.

I’ll be on a liveaboard for a week and will want to back up my SD card (photos and video). I’m an amateur, so don’t need a fancy system...well, not quite yet

Was considering an iPod and camera adapter but concerned about battery life and speed of transfer. Don’t really care about viewing pictures on the storage device.

Thoughts? Care to share your experience?

Thanks

I am one of the crazy ones ... one of my Laptops and portable hard drives Though a pain to carry sometimes (I bring stills and video cameras) I like having a laptop for email and the rest.  Have considered the iPod route also, but when I last checked (which was quite awhile ago) none of the adapters seemed reliable enough ( in addition to battery life and speed issues )

Now onto my dream wish lists:

At some point I would love to get a MacBook Air.  The size/weight is great - actually seeing and playing with one made me go “Wow” more than any of the photos or commercials show.  I think it just needs more than one USB port.  Will not have as much power as my work horse laptop, but for backing up photos, taking a quick look at them, checking emails, watching a video it is tempting.  Figure the next generation will have some improvements, so holding off right now.

I keep on hoping the iPod Touch gets a version of the iApps and a port or adapter (even if the had to make it thicker) to read/write to portable drives.  That would be VERY cool.