Listen to the voice of experience. Do as the lady says. I always drag
along a 17" laptop ('cause it's the only one I have). I load the days
shooting to the laptop, put the source card in limbo and do not use it
ever again until the laptop has been copied off to the backup drive.
That way there are always at least 2 copies of the images. As Tina
says, you also get to look at your shots.
If you don't take some form of computer and some backup provision for it
you will end up kicking yourself at some point. Learn to be kind to
yourself. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/18/2013 2:28 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I tried traveling for the first time without a computer when I went to
> Spain. I thought several 32 GB cards would be sufficient. I really
> regretted that decision! I couldn't download and check the photos at the
> end of the day like I usually do. Several of the 32 GB cards had problems
> so I had to resort to my older 8GB ones. I could check e-mail on my Kindle
> but I couldn't post any photos to share. I will not do that again. If
> nothing else, I would get a tiny Acer netbook computer and take it along.
> You can download photos on it, install LR to work on the photos, do e-mail
> easier than on a Kindle and hook up an external storage device like the
> little Seagate Free Agent Go which is smaller than a deck of cards but
> holds 320 GB. I have a little Acer that I will take next time I don't want
> to carry the big laptop.
>
> Enjoy Scotland!
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> So I'm looking at SD cards, because I'm going to need more than I have for
>> the Scotland trip.
>>
>> Also interested in various types of dump-and-store devices to avoid having
>> to tote the 17" MacBook Pro. Suggestions?
>>
>> I've been wandering around various sites. FWIW, Adorama has some kind of
>> special going on right now, but I don't think it's all that special. That
>> said, when perusing SDXC cards, I found a 64MB Transcend on Amazon. In the
>> Product Features section is the following entry:
>>
>> Ships in Frustration Free Packaging
>>
>> Funny, that.
>>
>> I suspect I'll limit myself to 16MB or 32MB at most to avoid catastrophic
>> disaster potential. But I am looking for fast write speeds because the D800
>> RAW files are a bit on the cumbersome side. Just south of 40MB to be
>> precise. Dump speeds to the computer or other device are less critical, but
>> you don't seem to get one without the other.
>>
>> --Bob, who has been frustrated by an astonishing variety of packaging
>>
>>
>>
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