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| Thread ID: 84566 | 2007-11-10 07:58:00 | Digital Camera <$1000 ?? | Lorcan (12618) | PC World Chat |
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| 610305 | 2007-11-15 22:48:00 | My Creative Zen 60GB lets me plug in a card reader and then copy the files onto the Zen. Of course, not much good if your Zen gets nicked too .... Damn, this all making me feel like I don't want to go on holiday :( |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 610306 | 2007-11-15 22:59:00 | On our most recent 6 week trip, I backed mine up each evening to my iPod. I didn't kept my iPod in the same bag as my camera or xD cards. And on the 2004 trip (a month away from home) I went into a photography shop a couple of times and got them to back up my cards to CD. |
John H (8) | ||
| 610307 | 2007-11-16 01:05:00 | On our most recent 6 week trip, I backed mine up each evening to my iPod. Presumably you need a special cable for that ? Both my camera and iPod have USB connections at the end. Perhaps what one does is the put both the USB connections into some link thingee ? ...wait, that sounds a bit bizarre !! My iPod is fourth generation so maybe those older ones do not have the right connections ? Misty :confused: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 610308 | 2007-11-16 01:58:00 | So, you'd spend thousands on an overseas trip and up to $1k on a camera - but not back up your images regularly? The thing about digital images is you fill up your memory cards regularly so you need to transfer them to something - like CDs or DVDs. So may as well mail them home to yourself as it is a good backup system. How did you manage your digital image files on your last overseas trip, Cicero? I have 1.75 gig of cards,which was ample for a 9 week trip,that was taking all I wanted,hundreds of pics at 5 meg. And if per chance I had lost the lot,life would have gone on. No doubt all yours are classics and will end up in Turnbull collection. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 610309 | 2007-11-16 02:00:00 | Mine was a fourth generation (I think). The connector was made by Belkin, but I sold that iPod and all the gear with it so I could downsize to a Nano. I can't find a reference to these connectors on the Belkin site, so maybe they don't make them anymore. I found them on Amazon: www.amazon.com If you go to TotallyMac you will find a camera connector there Misty, but I don't know how good they are and how they work. They look a bit more elegant and a lot smaller than the Belkin doofer that I had (it worked well, but added to the travelling bulk). I have tried to downsize everything I can for travelling (when I travel for business I carry a 10.6inch screen Fujitsu laptop!). |
John H (8) | ||
| 610310 | 2007-11-16 02:03:00 | Thats interesting,you post at 11, I at 12 yet my post appears first. You chaps out there do not attempt this,it takes years of practice and self denial. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 610311 | 2007-11-16 05:18:00 | No doubt all yours are classics and will end up in Turnbull collection. What, yours were all crap? |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 610312 | 2007-11-16 05:53:00 | Mine was a fourth generation (I think). The connector was made by Belkin, but I sold that iPod and all the gear with it so I could downsize to a Nano. I can't find a reference to these connectors on the Belkin site, so maybe they don't make them anymore. I found them on Amazon: www.amazon.com If you go to TotallyMac you will find a camera connector there Misty, but I don't know how good they are and how they work. They look a bit more elegant and a lot smaller than the Belkin doofer that I had (it worked well, but added to the travelling bulk). I have tried to downsize everything I can for travelling (when I travel for business I carry a 10.6inch screen Fujitsu laptop!). Thanks for the feedback John - very interesting and useful. The reviews are certainly very mixed. You seem to have been within the lucky ones - others have had some traumatic experiences ! I would take our laptop with us (to download to) -- however we got a 13" reconstituted one cheap from Harvey Norman. Whilst it works great it is big to cart around. We did find however that airlines do not have restrictions on size of laptops although they have size restrictions on other items of luggage. Despite that I think we would be unlikely to take with us. Still, it is good to know that we can. We will have to think more about what to do on holiday about preserving photos - perhaps just get the locals to put onto CD's for us !! Thanks again Misty :) :D |
Misty (368) | ||
| 610313 | 2007-11-16 05:56:00 | What, yours were all crap? Oh you foul mouth fool you! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 610314 | 2007-11-16 07:28:00 | Goodness Misty, I didn't read those reviews when I posted the link. Mine worked perfectly. I suppose I just trusted that the pix were on the iPod and left it at that. And of course I carried an iPod charger with me, so there was no worry about draining the battery. I wonder if those people who had problems didn't have a fully charged iPod before they started copying? I bought one of those small padded zip containers from Kathmandu (the shop) and had a universal power plug, and chargers for my camera, cellphone, and iPod in it. I didn't have any probs with electronic gear throughout Britain and Ireland. Each night in the B&B or hotel I charged everything for the following day. Perhaps an internet cafe would let you download your camera card onto their harddrive and then upload to a USB pendrive? The ones I went to had no problems with me using a USB pendrive, and they didn't know what I was doing with it. Perhaps that is an alternative backup solution, provided your USB key was big enough to take your images. My present one is 8Gb, and each of my pix is about 1.2 Mb, so you could fit a lot of images on an 8Gb drive! All you would need to carry is your camera's USB cable and a pendrive. |
John H (8) | ||
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