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epreuss
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i will be working in the valley all summer, so i am bringing my cameras, all of them, film and digital. my question is this, once i am down there, what would be the best way to store my digital photos? i plan to take alot and i am not taking a laptop. obviously i dont want to buy a bunch of CF cards and i am concernd about saving my photos! any suggestions?
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Myxomatosis
Jun 8, 2008, 9:21 PM
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epreuss wrote: i will be working in the valley all summer, so i am bringing my cameras, all of them, film and digital. my question is this, once i am down there, what would be the best way to store my digital photos? i plan to take alot and i am not taking a laptop. obviously i dont want to buy a bunch of CF cards and i am concernd about saving my photos! any suggestions?
You can find some companies sell a camera to portable hard drive connector.
Or I know Belkin did sell a camera to iPod connection that downloaded the photo's straight onto the pod.
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blondgecko
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Jun 8, 2008, 10:27 PM
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Myxomatosis wrote: epreuss wrote: i will be working in the valley all summer, so i am bringing my cameras, all of them, film and digital. my question is this, once i am down there, what would be the best way to store my digital photos? i plan to take alot and i am not taking a laptop. obviously i dont want to buy a bunch of CF cards and i am concernd about saving my photos! any suggestions? You can find some companies sell a camera to portable hard drive connector. Or I know Belkin did sell a camera to iPod connection that downloaded the photo's straight onto the pod.
There are also a bunch of specialised photo storage devices that include a viewing screen and even some basic editing. They're quite expensive, though. Rather than these, I ended up going with a 60GB Creative Zen Vision W, which has the advantage of being a fully fledged portable media player. It has a CF card slot, and an option to back up cards to the internal hard disk. You can view the JPEGS (no RAW viewing on this one, unfortunately) and if you start to get strapped for space, you can delete the ones you don't like quite easily.
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melekzek
Jun 9, 2008, 4:40 AM
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blondgecko wrote: There are also a bunch of specialised photo storage devices that include a viewing screen and even some basic editing. They're quite expensive, though.
there are cheap ones without a viewing screen, you can get one for 30-50$ without a hd, and put your own hd in it...
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majid_sabet
Jun 9, 2008, 5:55 AM
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look for sandisc or similar flash strong device.
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deepplaymedia
Jun 9, 2008, 11:10 AM
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to do it on the cheap, just go to an internet cafe/computer library (whatever theyre called north of the equator) and dump them- id make 2 dvd copies of everything (and mail one home) & also upload them to an online storage DB (cheap & easy). total cost= $2 computer use, few dollars for internet storage, 70c a DVD?
i dont know how many photos you plan on taking, but the very expensive little viewer/HD units are usually what, like 60gigs? Wouldn't be that long before you'd have to dump onto a computer anyway...
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morlebeke
Jun 9, 2008, 7:53 PM
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that's what I was thinking...
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karlbaba
Jul 16, 2008, 2:38 AM
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In a pinch, I think the Ansel Adams gallery may offer a service like CD burning
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blitz933
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Considering the kind of money and limited space that an external of the type your talking about gives you, I think you'd be a lot better off bringing a cheap laptop. You can find capable laptops with DVD burners in the $400-500 range easily, just keep your eyes peeled. Given that you'll still need to plugin the external HDD to use it anyway, I don't think your even losing any convenience.
Checkout these sites regularly:
www.slickdeals.net
www.bensbargains.net
There are frequent deals to be had, if the deal shows up on the front page it's hot enough to be good. Slickdeal's Hot Deals forum is a good place to lurk, things come through there pretty fast. Good luck.
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