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| 205350 | 2004-01-04 22:05:00 | I am going on a overseas trip in October (painfully in advance, I know) and I am taking the digital camera. I do not really want to take the lappie for insurance sake, weight etc. Is there an external HD that I can hook up the camera to via USB and download the images rather than buying a lot of XD cards. Just wondering if there is such a device.... TIA SimonC |
simonc (2694) | ||
| 205351 | 2004-01-04 22:32:00 | My sister & her husband went on an overseas trip recently and all they did was take the memory card into a camera shop, who then put all pics onto a CD for them. Then they could format the memory card and start again. It was a 128MB one from memory. Was very cheap to do this. About NZ$5 each time I think. AFAIK you can't get an external HDD that would plug in directly to the camera but even if you could it would be quite expensive I'ed say. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 205352 | 2004-01-04 22:37:00 | Looks like you can buy external HDD's with built in memory card readers but as I thought, quite expensive. See here (www.xpcgear.com) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 205353 | 2004-01-05 00:08:00 | Unless you are going to a technologically challenged country, the option of getting a photo processing shop to dump them to a CD is by far the best. I run a 1 GB card, so its not usually an issue for me as it will hold a few thousand images. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 205354 | 2004-01-06 04:55:00 | Expensive!!! I see what you mean...a good idea, but does not support XD (suprise, surprise...) I think that a 1GB card is the go...I think XD are up to 512....2 of them will have to do. Thanks all for your help! SimonC |
simonc (2694) | ||
| 205355 | 2004-01-06 06:46:00 | Yes i have seen one somewhere it read your card self supporting and was about $500 | zoomlens12 (1210) | ||
| 205356 | 2004-01-06 07:10:00 | apacer sell an external battery powered cd writer with slots for memory cards. pcworld rated it 5/5 more convenient than a photo shop and can connect to a computer for use as a regular cd writer |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 205357 | 2004-01-06 07:26:00 | a HD or laptop may still be beneficial depending upon what type of quality u save the pix in. 6MP camera can be 8MB or more (!). :) | nomad (3693) | ||
| 205358 | 2004-01-06 09:46:00 | Another idea - how about using a large USB Pen drive - I'm not sure about XD cards - I use Sony memory cards and pen drives are lots cheaper (recently bought 256M one for $119). Only thing is you have to find a PC to move files over unless you have one that has card slots on it. | JohnD (509) | ||
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