I was always curious if all our members and contest submitters are crazy as we are and take their complete digital equipment to their dive journeys?
We are always travelling with a laptop, an external hard disc, cd burner and cameras to our trips.
I use a PicturePAD. It works but it is too slow to my liking to review pictures with it. Otherwise it works fine with the USB2.0 interface at home. My wife will never let me bring a laptop on a diving trip...She knows too well what will happen!
I lug a 12.1 inch slim Sony vaio around, I like the option of editing and organising the photos onsite whilst my memory is still fresh ( must be old age ), that way I can easily view faults and change my technique accordingly, and fiddle ofcourse, but the 12.1 is still a bit large, I am seriously looking at Sony’s TR3 as the solution to my storage and editing whilst travelling and home.
My second choice is a very large capacity camera card.
The price of these flash cards is dropping all the time. Toshiba have announced a 4GB micro drive, these large storage cards effectively achieve the same objective by turning the camera into the storage device, this effectively renders external storage devices redundant.
Hi,
I am just thinking aloud here.....my ideal storage device would have,
The ability to store ANY type of media on it,
has about 40GB of storage space, (for pics and music),
could accept most popular types of flash cards without an external adaptor,
has an external battery,
BIG viewing screen.
Can edit and manipulate pic’s with photo shop.
A notebook is the solution for me, it has all of the above.
Roll on the Sony TR3a....I can hear my bank manager frowning.
Lately I’ve been storing all my photos on CF cards. This works well at ~2MP because my jpgs are only about a ### each. You can by cheap 256 MB CF cards at Costco for about $40-50 ea. I have 3 and delete unwanted files on the hotel TV. This is of course the lightest method but I fear it won’t be feasable for my upcomming 6MP dSLR when I plan to shoot RAW 4.5 MB ea.
I bought an iomega photoshow when I got my camera 4 years ago and it worked alright. It is very slow to download but you could set it off when you go out to dinner and the 256 MB flash card matched the 250 mb diskd pretty well. The disks were cheap and you could use many. I think the technology has made this one obselete.
I’m thinking about a laptop. This is probably the best solution. With a laptop you can store nearly endless files, write them to a secure backup on a CD, and even play with photo editing. I can also use it to play DVDs on the plane. The best one I’ve seen is at Sam’s Club for about $800. It’s a slim generic laptop with a 12” screen and ~40 MB HD. Best of all it comes with a CD burner/DVD player. It really is tiny.
I have an Olympus C4040 and am buying the PT-10 with Epoque strobe package. I plan on bringing my 30 GB iPod with a Belkin iPod media reader. This seems like a real practical and small way to store photos.
I am just back from a 10 day trip where we tried out the Flashtrax by Smartdisk at http://www.smartdisk.com/ With a 40Gb disc (there’s an 80GB also available) and reader I downloaded the cards from my Oly 5050 and my wife’s 2020 each evening in about 5 minutes. The little screen allowed quick decisions on which to keep, and feedback for the next days diving. It also store music and downloaded radio plays.
I have played with one in the shops, and after all my research it is what I would choose as well. However I do like the cheapness of non screen models
After having played with one I dont think I would necessarily use the display by which to delete my photos anymore than i owuld the camera screen while I am underwater.
But until i get my photos on a bigger screen to really check focus I dont throw anything out unless it is badly composed and I can do better there and then (or exposed)
I travel with a 15” Apple Powerbook G4 with an 80GB HD. I also back up images onto another HD-- a Smart Disk 30GB Flash Trax and if necessary, onto my 40GB iPOD (I use only about 5GB’s for music), and I also burn them onto DVD’s every 2 days. My shots are all about 9MB uncompressed RAW files from my Nikon D100. I’d hate to lose even one shot due to tech fault or human error. When I get home, I transfer all the “keepers” to an external HD, file the DVD’s, and format all the rest. Then I begin editing… All Photoshop- finished images are backed up on the ext. HD and onto DVD and CD. It costs very little in time and money to be extra safe and sure.
Hi!
For image storage duing travel. In order not to have to much to carry (thinking about weight and airlines) I’ll have 10 cards - each of 128mb. I usually switch card once a day and leaving the used one at the hotel or cabin.
as we are and take their complete digital equipment to their dive journeys?
), that way I can easily view faults and change my technique accordingly, and fiddle ofcourse, but the 12.1 is still a bit large, I am seriously looking at Sony’s TR3 as the solution to my storage and editing whilst travelling and home.
