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Thread ID: 85468 2007-12-11 03:29:00 Clearing SD cards on the go? aonghas (12649) Press F1
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620195 2007-12-11 03:29:00 Hi everyone,

I am going away for a few weeks in January and will be taking my digital camera that uses SD cards to take photos/videos. At the moment I have 2 2GB SD cards but I will probably fill them up quickly, especially if I record videos. I was wondering if you guys could suggest any way I could transfer photos/videos from the cards to a hard drive or the like, without the need of a computer? I've read about some way of doing it through an iPod but is there a similar method through an adaptor and a hard drive?

Cheers
aonghas
aonghas (12649)
620196 2007-12-11 03:43:00 I use Photo Bank, it is a Portable Personal Data Center
www.digi-mate.com
The one on the web page shows 40Gb, mine is 60Gb

Got it from Pro Gear. 3 Railway Street, Newmarket, Auckland
09 529 5055

It takes most card types and it has a small laptop hard drive inside it. One of my more useful buys.
Bantu (52)
620197 2007-12-11 03:49:00 If you are near a photo processing shop or lab you can get your pics transferred to CDs. Only thing is that if they bork it you might not know about it until you get home, long after the photos have been overwritten. :( FoxyMX (5)
620198 2007-12-11 03:50:00 For the price of sd cards I would just buy a couple more
Unless you need another gadget:D
plod (107)
620199 2007-12-11 06:07:00 Yup this is the Ipod way (www.dse.co.nz)

Which will let you connect the cam via cable to the Ipod, and upload them

Like this (www.sportsmoviesmusic.com)
Speedy Gonzales (78)
620200 2007-12-11 08:22:00 I use Photo Bank, it is a Portable Personal Data Center
www.digi-mate.com
The one on the web page shows 40Gb, mine is 60Gb

Got it from Pro Gear. 3 Railway Street, Newmarket, Auckland
09 529 5055

It takes most card types and it has a small laptop hard drive inside it. One of my more useful buys.

Regarding the Digi Bank, from the Nikonians site:

"My biggest concern with a device like this is that there is no positive confirmation that everything copied correctly. I would be devastated if I got home and connected the drive to my computer and could not retrieve my images."

Bantu what is the price?


As Plod says I'd just buy more SD cards, and then have them transferred to a DVD if all get filled up.
Morpheus1 (186)
620201 2007-12-11 21:11:00 I don't remember, it was about 18 months ago i git it. Took it to Europe and a couple of times to Aussie since then.

From memory it was about the price of a couple of 2gb sd cards.

Family has 3 Digital cameras plus a Handycam that also uses an SD card for photos. My SLR uses a CF card (which I have 2 x fast 2Gb cards) And several SD cards of various size.

The databank reads the lot. There are similar devices that do this with varying prices, from memory Epson make one that has a little screen on it, but i think that was too expensive at the time i got my databank.
Bantu (52)
620202 2007-12-12 21:12:00 Hey guys,

Thanks for all your suggestions, I didn't even know there were such devices. I've had a look on the net and came across this Photo Bank device. Can someone take a look and let me know what they think of something like this?


Here is the link (www.chinavasion.com)

Cheers
aonghas
aonghas (12649)
620203 2007-12-12 21:26:00 That looks better than the one I got:-(
A good find. Did you find an outlet for this in NZ? Maybe someone on Trademe imports them.
Bantu (52)
620204 2007-12-12 21:35:00 Nah I haven't found anyone in NZ who sells them yet. I was thinking of just buying it online through their website, although all up it would be around $230 incl. shipping. I don't know if it's safe/worth it doing it that way? aonghas (12649)
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