Portable storage device for digital photos?

laptop....even a cheapo one will have a hd large enough for stax of pix. Then you could use it for Ozi explorer etc.

Leroy

Have a look at the new portable hardrives. I'm not sure if you could plug a card reader into one of these and transfer files without a GUI but if you can one of these would be great because they are now quite cheap.
Alternatively, a cheap secondhand laptop would be the way to go.

The ideal solution would be to use a laptop with a CD burner built into it - then you can burn a copy (or two) of your pics and send them home for safe keeping.

The problem with all of these electronic storage devices is that they are all prone to failure and you can easily lose the lost (eg. what happens when your tent get flooded out and it all ends up under water?). Even if the laptop fails - you still have some of your photos saved on CD safely at home - so you wont have lost the lot.

Of course - this isn't the cheapest option - but its the surest way of making sure your digital photos wont dissapear into thin air!

- Dave

I have a friend who is a professional photographer who reckons the Apple iPod is the bees knees. It is small (smaller than a box of cigarettes) so is really portable, can hold up to 40Gig of data, and is cross platform capable. I use a 20Gig one for my music.Bob

Sandie
Is there a particular reason you want to take "high quality pics"? When I got my digital I started out taking pics on the highest quality available. Discovered I was using an enormous amount of card space per pic. Cut back to middle of the road and was able to get heaps more pics on the card. Realistically I have been unable to tell the difference between the quality of photos, both on screen and after printing. Try it, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. I use : resolution 1024 x 768 and compression "fine". I am currently using a 128 meg flashcard which takes approx 420 shots. I also carry a couple of smaller cards (32 & 16) for any excess pics. This gives me about 600 shots all up. Given that you have the capacity to review and delete any that are no good, that many shots should take you a long way. If not enough what's wrong with carrying 2 x 128 cards. I also have the luxury of a laptop and download as often as I can. But it is not a necessity.

Tessa

Sandie,
We take thousands of digital pics when on a trip and simply put the SD card from the camera into a card reader connected to our laptop to speed up the download of files. We used to download the files direct from the camera to the laptop but this took FOREVER. The card readers are the way to go, we bought one for about $200 with 6 slots to take all sorts of cards from various sources. It's the way to go.
When David gets back (he's out) I'll post the details of the card reader if you're interested.Regards Michelle,
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tessa's got it carry more cards mine takes a floppy disk with card inserted but I have laptop instead of exra cards

sugest think what you are going to do in future GPS, electronic maps

of course if all this is to much talk to ruth and just by a perment waterside lot at birdsvilleCBS
Cant Bl**dy Sitstill

I work for a major camera shop here in Perth, I run the Lab. We reccomend and use X-Drive ($395 for 30Gb portable hard drive) and the new Fotobar portable CD-DVD burner ($595 I think, these burn straight from a card to CD or DVD). There is another brand of portable card to CD burner that some of the guys like but I'm not too keen on it myself. Can't remember the name. Laptops are a good way to go but have more that can go wrong and use more power. A lot of devices may not be directly compatible with your xD card but an adaptor is available using a Compact Flash caddy.

I would definitely not reccomend lowering the quality of the images to fit more onto a card. 1024x768 is a screen resolution and will print perfectly at only 8.6 x 6.5cm at 300dpi. Any bigger and it will lose quality quickly. I see it regularly that someone takes a beautiful photo at a low quality and I have to tell them that if we print it to the size that they want, it will look pixelated and terrible.

Hi all. My name is Martin and I'm Sandie's husband.

Basically Sandie and I love our photos. We have a Olympus 5050 with a 2.2GB Microdrive card and the 32MB Xd card.
We take photos on the highest resolution so we can print them out at A3 if we feel the picture deserves it!!
To give you an idea of how many photos we take, at a party a few weeks ago I took 200 high res pics, almost 1GB.

I like the idea if taking a laptop because it can double up as a journal and I can put the GPS map info on it to. However this is the expensive option.

Has anyone found the X-drive II any good?
What are the features of the Apple Ipod? Does it have a colour screen for viewing the photos? A web address maybe?

Thanks in advance. Your information do date has been excellent!!
Marty