Storing Pictures While Backpack Travelling? 134
"He hasn't yet purchased a digital camera, so any camera or convergence device to be available in the next 6 months is fair game.
We've thought of a few scenarios. Bringing along a ton of CF cards is neither cheap nor reliable -- suppose the media gets lost or damaged. An ideal solution might involve being able to mail media home, while still having a copy 'on the road' in case that media gets lost in the mail.
And isn't it about time we see consumer devices with support for firewire drives, such as the iPod? I envision a digital camera that can talk (and backup) to an iPod -- this would be more than enough storage in a 15gb model, and small enough to take backpacking painlessly. However, the new models feature a proprietary dock connector, which makes one the iPod's old great advantages -- charge from any firewire port! -- a thing of the past.
A camera that burns images to a CD would be nice, but only if the CD was secondary storage -- ie, save pictures to internal buffer, burn to N CDs, erase internal buffer. This would allow the easy creation of duplicates, but might require a lot of CDs.
How would you plan your gadgets, given 6 more months of advancement of new technology (and price-cuts on old tech)? There's a whole lot of neat camera-ready devices coming about about now, so there could be quite a few creative ideas. Winning solution is the simplest and most portable."
Stand Alone Data Storage - oh the power of google (Score:5, Informative)
You don't want firewall, most cameras do the USB 2.0 thing.
In addition to storing pictures, many of these Devices are MP3 players as well. 10,20,30 even 60 gig drives with rechargable batteries..etc.
have fun.
-malakai
Re:Stand Alone Data Storage - oh the power of goog (Score:1)
Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:4, Insightful)
While buying a lot of CF cards is not a great solution, it doesn't have to be too expensive. 10 256MB Sandisk CF cards will run you approx $650. That would store approximately 3500-4000 images - based on how I use my Canon Powershot A40 camera in "Fine" (medium lossy) format.
10,000 images is, in my opinion, somewhat unlikely to occur. Sure, you can take 10,000 pictures. But 9,000 of them are probably going to suck. Maybe just 8,000. Thus the bane and beauty of a digital camera. You can instantly review a picture or simply review the whole lot later, on your down time. Backpacking should have it's share of down time, unless he's pushing pretty hard.
Additionally, CF cards are very, very hardy. My 64MB Sandisk CF card spent 30 minutes at the bottom of a river when I dropped my camera. The card - and pictures - were perfectly ok after recovery.
Your friend will also want to pick up some hearty rechargable batteries - I suggest the new PowerEX 2000mAh NiMH batteries in conjunction with the Maha C401FS rapid, 100-minute charger. Your friend may also want to consider picking up a flexible solar panel to charge stuff while "on the road".
Lastly, camera-wise, I personally recommend the Canon Powershot A40. It can be had for about $200 now. It is "just" a 2 megapixel camera. However, the output is very nice for consumer level camera.
Good point (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually this is the best part about digital photography. Want a good picture? Take ten pictures of the subject and then pick the one(s) you like the best. With regular cameras this just isn't cost (or time) effective as you have to wait for prints, then wait for reprints, etc... but on a digital you can pop the CF card into your laptop to view the series and pick the good ones, then delete the stuff you do not like - doi
Re:Good point (Score:2)
Re:Good point (Score:2)
The cost of film and developing makes this practice all but impossible for the normal person. If you're a geek with cash and you feel like blowing it on film, well, go ahead.
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:4, Informative)
Media durability.. (Score:3, Funny)
My most recent camera is SmartMedia (SSFDC) based, and I'm happy with it. The neat thing about the cards is that they're flat. I can tuck one into my cheek to conceal it, slobber all over it "I don't know what you're talking about officer", wipe it off, put it back into the camera, and it works flawlessly.
Doing t
Re:Media durability.. (Score:2)
Do I dare ask how you came to this finding?
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:2)
for snapshots the A40 is great. its manual modes aren't super but for that you really DO need a real pro camera (I use the nikon D1 and while its very flexible for my needs, for situations when weight and size is an i
AgX and Digital- What sucks now might not later. (Score:2)
But the great thing about editing is I've got them all stored in the original format.... and I can go back and look thru them for images that strike my fancy now that didn't otherwise before. After all, the incremental cost of a roll of film is e
Re:AgX and Digital- What sucks now might not later (Score:3, Informative)
I don't understand the points you're making. Are you saying that digital cameras are less likely to get stolen than SLRs? I don't see the logic here.
Target sells Kodak ISO 400, 96 exposure film at $9/roll, or about $0.10/exposure for film. Processing the film runs about $2.25/roll, or about $0.02/exposure. A 256 MB CF card runs about $56.99, and holds about 1000 exposures (based on the space of the pics I took on vacation last week). That's about $0.005/exposure for CF, versus $0.12/exposure for film.
Actually ur a bit off... but pretty close! (Score:2)
Now your CF 256mb has a rebate on it- they are 80$ a piece. And you can only get 256 images from a 3megapixel camera (and frankly anything lower will suck for image quality).
Re:Actually ur a bit off... but pretty close! (Score:2)
You pay too much for your CF cards. You can find name brand cards retail for $60 out the door. Generic for even less. If you count rebates, they get even che
Re:Actually ur a bit off... but pretty close! (Score:2)
And you can only get 256 images from a 3megapixel camera (and frankly anything lower will suck for image quality).
I'd never take photos for a job at low quality, but on my vacation last week, I took a lot of 640x and 1024x pics. I'm not trying to publish National Geographic here... I just want to remember where I've been, and what it looks like. (I was in coastal California. It looks nice.) I also modulated my sizes: when I was taking a picture I thought I'd want in high quality, I'd take it in high r
Very Much Quality (Score:2)
My trip to Europe consumed around 100 rolls of film. The last one was 50 rolls in 10 days. So yeah.... burning film is a bit of a cost, but I have huge prints to thank for it (And a gf that really hates roman ruins now
Re:AgX and Digital- What sucks now might not later (Score:2)
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:1)
I would recommend an SLR for any kind of future investment value. The EOS D30, a 4 MP camera IIRC, can be had for 300-400 bucks on eBay. With the BG-ED3, and miserly battery usage (no instant preview, 1 minute auto-sleep, minimum of metering and autofocusing) one could shoot for at least a week. The beauty of the digicam i
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:2)
The Canon A70 just dropped to $300. It's 3MP and quite nice. Personally, I decided to get a Nikon Coolpix 3100 since I'm a geek just not a photo geek. It uses CF cards, like the Canon, and offers many nice automatic modes...yet, if you like to tell your camera what to do instead of it figuring it out for you,
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:2)
However, the A20, 40, 60 and A70 (all the ones I've ever touched/played with) all have a 100% manual mode. IE, you are welcome to screw up your picture as much (or as little) as you want. Set the film sensitivity (ISO), speed, f-stop, etc. You can even shoot in b&w.
I do, however, agree with you on the Coolpix selection. I think it's a stupid name for a camera, but they're good cameras. However, your 3
Re:Don't discount CF cards quite yet (Score:2)
The 3100 is similar in many ways to the A70. I don't think either is superior to the other, though there are differences. For me, a non-photo geek, the Nikon was the better choice. For a real avid photographer, the A70 with it's extensive manual controls is a better choice.
What resolution? (Score:4, Insightful)
512M CF cards cost +/- $100 apiece, maybe a little more, so he could hold 10,000 one megapixel pictures on about $500 in media. CF seems pretty indestructable, if he keeps it on his person (in his pocket or whatever) I guarantee it will survive way more than he can. He can also get a cheap $20 adapter to pop the CF card into a PCMCIA slot on a laptop, so with even a little luck he will find someone with a laptop that can burn him CDs for a couple of dollars, somewhere in his travels.
Re:What resolution? (Score:2, Insightful)
WarezPix (Score:2)
I always do
MicroDrive (Score:3, Insightful)
There's also the possiblity of using a film camera. Film should be available everywhere, and it's much safer to mail back home. Digital isn't always the answer (OTOH, I just bought my first digital camera today:)
Re:MicroDrive (Score:2)
There is? At 24 pics per roll, that's gonna be over 400 rolls of film. That's gonna cost a whole bunch - and developing's gonna run somewhere around $4 per roll... that's another $1600 there.
Re:MicroDrive (Score:1)
In any event, it's a possibility worth considering.
Re:MicroDrive (Score:2)
Bingo.
Re:MicroDrive (Score:1)
Re:MicroDrive (Score:2)
Did I get it right?
Re:MicroDrive (Score:1)
Mavicas and hard drives oh my (Score:1)
There are devices just for sucking the pictures of a CF card and storing them on internal harddrive, some even with screens larger than the cameras for viewing and some even play mp3s as well.
512 mb CF cards (Score:2)
1GB CF cards (Score:2)
On the other hand, if your friend has never had a digital camera before, he may be shocked at how many pictures he will be taking. By my calculations, I have taken over 2,000 since December, and I have a job other than wandering aroun
Re:1GB CF cards (Score:1)
Re:1GB CF cards (Score:2)
Here's one. [yahoo.com]
I think many people here aren't recommending 1GB CF cards because pricewatch.com doesn't go that high yet.
Re:1GB CF cards (Score:1)
Re:1GB CF cards (Score:2)
Meta-advice (Score:3, Insightful)
One thing that I really noticed was your thought about writing CDs, which consumes a non-trivial amount of battery power.
I personally know almost nothing about how much power it takes to take one picture, or write 256MB onto a compact flash, or run a laptop, but you might need to find out. Batteries are heavy and basically dead weight (no value beyond their storage capacity), so you will want to minimize what you need to carry. Coming up with a fancy solution that requires thirty pounds of batteries to run for a week without contact with civilization is probably not useful. Also, you may get into trouble if you need fifty hours to recharge your battery set.
Just a meta-thought.
Re:Meta-advice (Score:3, Insightful)
Exactly. Is your friend going to England and France, Mexico and
China, or Bangledesh and the Cameroun? Urban, or rural? Are we
talking about being without power during the day and sometimes for
2-3 days because not _all_ of the hotels have power, or are we
talking about being sixty miles (on nothing that we would consider
to be roads in any North-American sense of that word) from the
nearest place that has power certain days of the week, exce
Re:Meta-advice (Score:2)
Agreed. My experience on a recent trip to Iceland was that my Sony Stamina(tm) battery ran out before my Sony Memory Stick(tm) in my Sony Camera(tm).
Of course, "living off the land" counts for tech too. If he can just buy new storage on the way, he can just pop the previous one out and Fedex it home.
Backwater? (Score:3, Informative)
You'd be surprised how backwater most of the world isn't. Power may not be guarenteed, but he should find something wherever he finds somewhere to sleep. Likewise, as most people out there don't have their own computers, there are likely to be affordable internet cafes he will bump into. He should use these as an opportunity to back up his data to a server you are monitering.
On the flip side, mail is *never* a good idea. It might make it, it might not. Usually it doesn't.
Technologically, USB 2.1 devices should be out soon, which allow for device-to-device communication. Unfortunately, firewire and USB 1.0/2.0 are both client-server models... Which is the server, the camera or MP3 player? Which charges which?
Likewise, Sony makes a Mini-CDR burning camera, but they're just huge. 100 Mini CDR's can be had at Microcenter for 40 bucks, though, and should be enough space for 10,000 images. If he was intending to take a 5MP SLR with 14x optical zoom anyway, this might be a good option.
HDD external storage is a bit risky because of the dangers to the device, but it may be your best option. Just remember to backup whenever you bump into an internet cafe.
One last thing: Battery life. If he's genuinely worried about the availability of power, he should consider making a custom battery pack based on AA rechargables. That way, if the only place around is a convienience/gas station he can still power up his machine.
Re:Backwater? (Score:2)
USB 2.0, released in 2001 and becoming popular in 2002, is designed to offer performance similar to FireWire. USB 2.0 has a maximum data rate of 480 Mbps. Given that their speeds are now roughly identical, the big difference remaining between FireWire and USB 2.0 is that USB 2.0 is host-based, meaning that devices must connect to a computer in order to communicate. FireWire is peer-to-peer, meaning that two FireWire cameras can talk to each other without going through a [howstuffworks.com]
Terapin Mine (Score:5, Informative)
with an ethernet connection (using built in port) or a pcmcia modem you could email your pictures back home whenever you can find a convienient connection. Also backs up to windows and linux and can play movies/music with its built in output ports.
All of this in a 7x3.2x1" package
Re:Terapin Mine (Score:1)
Re:Terapin Mine (Score:2)
The Mine is much more than just camera-to-storage. It's got Ethernet, USB master, USB slave, AV output, and a PCMCIA slot. It's also not too great on the batteries, so you might want to carry a solar panel.
I'm not sure if all revisions of the Mine include th
Easy solution (Score:4, Insightful)
In other words, get an optical camera, and mail the film to yourself. Have it developed when you get home.
Not so easy ! (Score:2, Informative)
In some countries, mailing shouldn't be considered an option (Nepal, India, Africa, rural China, etc.)
It is NEVER a good idea to mail something by regular post when you really care about it, unless you are 100 % sure it won't be lost somewhere and be kept in good condition (in other words, if you trust in miracle).
Mail is scanned many times by all sort of rays, most notably X-Rays which can really screw you film if they are too powerful. You can wrap your films in
Re:Not so easy ! (Score:2)
Re:Not so easy ! (Score:3, Insightful)
Hint: welcome to the 21st century. There are serious digital cameras out there. They just cost a lot.
Re:Not so easy ! (Score:1)
Re:Not so easy ! (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyways, as a high level amateur photographer, I took 3 cameras with me. 1 Fuji digital, 1 Olympus OM-1, 1 Nikon F (The original, built like a tank, when you're not taking pictures, you can use it as a weapon in a bull fight). Guess which one didn't make it back? The Nikon. I fell in an irrigation ditch in r
Re:Easy solution (Score:2)
I shoot film when I need to. but NEVER in harsh conditions like the poster is likely to encounter.
Re:Easy solution (Score:1)
Re:Easy solution (Score:2)
I'd say there are far more cameras that follow the above style than the one you describe.
Re:Easy solution (Score:1)
Re:Easy solution (Score:2)
however, its not THAT farfetched a thing to imagine - the scene he describes. which is why it wasn't immediately obvious that he was trying to poke fun.
X's drive (Score:5, Informative)
X's drive [compgeeks.com]
the usb2.0 version works well with linux. the usb1.1 version doesn't (for me, at least).
put any size notebook drive in there you want.
I'd second this (X's drive) (Score:1)
The website for it is here:
http://www.xs-drive.com/xsdrive2/ [xs-drive.com]
copy/paste from the site:
X'S-DRI
Stand alone CD Burner (Score:2)
I also found this device when poking around http://www.gus.com/buphbadicapo.html [gus.com]
Also, what about USB-on-the-Go ? Isn't it supposed to allow cameras to talk to hard drives? I've found some hard drives that are USB on the go. Do any cameras support this?
Why digital? (Score:3, Informative)
Don't get me wrong, I love digital imaging. Fun to browse, to share, to manipulate. But I don't own a digital camera. Way too expensive for the amount of photography I do. I own several conventional cameras, and I have the lab scan everything when I get the film developed. That makes a lot more sense for what you're doing. You can get an excellent point-and-shoot autofocus camera for $100. It will store hundreds of high-resolution images on rolls of film that will be OK for months, with minimal care (temperature, avoid X-rays).
You might also consider an instant camera. The prints make excellent gifts for the people you meet. Scanning them in is a pain, but less so than losing all your images because your battery ran down or your backpack fell off the bus.
Insisting that your images be end-to-end digital smacks of technology for its own sake.
You've let technology cloud the issue. (Score:4, Informative)
The answer is low tech rather than high tech. First you need to get a good 35mm film camera. Stash 5 or ten rolls of film in your rucksack and have a good time. The next time you pass a post box, drop your exposed film in it, addressed to a friend or relative. When running low on film, pick some up in the next town. 35mm film is available in almost any town anywhere. It is also far cheaper than CF cards or self powered hard drives.
When you return home, have the film developed at your local drug store, or where ever you prefer, and check the little box requesting a CD-ROM copy of the roll or rolls. This way you have the digital format that you desire as well as a quality film picture that would require a digital camera of at least 5 megapixels to get the same quality and resolution.
This approach is also far safer from the perspective of protecting your pictures. It is entirely possible that, over the course of a year, your rucksack will be lost, abused, battered and especially soaked with rain. By regularly shipping out your pictures, the risk will only be to a few rolls of film rather than everything, as would be the case when a supersized CF card gets crushed or wet. Even if you lose the camera at some point it can be replaced with only the loss of a few rolls of film, rather than everything.
Re:You've let technology cloud the issue. (Score:2, Interesting)
It is? Film costs about $1.50 a roll at US retail, but it can cost much more in other places, especially tourist sites. We'll say the average price is $2.50, including tax and such. When you add in developing (around $4 per roll) and postage (I have no clue - international postage can be really expensive. I'll say $2 per roll), that's $8.50 per roll. Assuming these are 24-exposure rolls, 10000 exposures would cost about $3500.
Meanwhile, 100
My Solution- real and possible (Score:2)
My solution? I happen to have a Jornada 720 PDA [geocities.com] and a 2 GB PCMCIA drive for the machine. The plan is when a 128 MB card if filled up, to move the contents onto the 2 GB drive. The PCMCIA harddrives are the same as in the iPod. You can get them in sizes ranging from 2 GB (a measly $70) all the way up to 30 G
buy used, get the right pack, use hostel's (Score:2, Insightful)
Get a good travel pack, one that is both an internal frame pack and a suitcase with wheels. Pack light, get a money belt. Never display american money on the street if possible. Beware of black market
Never, EVER, stay in the IYH network (Score:4, Informative)
You want to wake up at 7:00am to a roll call
You want to sleep 20 to a room
You want to be overcharged
You want to have to pay for sheets.
FAR better is to find the small, indepedent ones. Look in bus/train stations for signs, ask other backpackers.
Scratch the frame pack/rollable suitcase - its going to be way too heavy, and you'll never really use the wheels. Just get a backpack.
Don't worry about dressing locally, or buying from local junkshops - there will be other obviously foreign backpackers everywhere, and unless you speak fluent, idiomatic you'll always be a foreigner.
Don't get a money belt, they're only used in James Bond movies and by kids whose parents are paranoid.
If you're hitting sketchier places, hang onto some American currency (like a 50 USD note). It's remarkable what kind of magic it can work in places when you "suddenly" have paperwork problems at immigration/customs.
Face it, you're a foreign tourist. Don't patronize the locals by pretending to be one. You'll fail at it. Don't be a rude, ugly American either. Treat people with respect, don't speak English LOUDLY AND S-L-O-W-L-Y and expect them to understand.
Re:Never, EVER, stay in the IYH network (Score:2)
Amen. IYH is for three groups:
No scratch on the first two groups, good for them, they're well accomodated. The third group, however, is missing out. Missing out on better prices, more character, more locations, and an absence of d
Web email? Give me a break! (Score:3, Informative)
Plus, most internet cafes don't have flash memory readers attached to the computers, and might not be happy if you plugged in your own. The only way to use the network "as you please" would be to bring along a laptop or Terapin Mine,
Where's that American Pride? Coward. (Score:1, Insightful)
One last, somewhat strange piece of advice, you may also want to sew a small Canadian flag to your pack. I've had far less problems since I did.
Do this if you're a Canadian. If you're an American, why not see how well your foriegn policy flies overseas? Or are you not proud of the red, white and blue. God knows I see enough of that shit when I go to the US.
I -AM- a Canadian, and when I see arrogant americans doing this, it makes my blood boil. There's a reason that flag gives you less problems, idiot.
Ugh... (Score:2)
Get a good travel pack, one that is both an internal frame pack and a suitcase with wheels. Pack light, get a money belt. Never display american money on the street if possible.
One last, somewhat strange piece of advice, you may also want to sew a small Canadian flag to your pack. I've had far less problems since I did.
It's far, far better not to display any signs of affluence.
So when you're wheeling that suitcase/backback down the street with the Canadian flag on it, people will think "hey, a loca
Blend in? (Score:2)
And I don't know how he looks, but if he/she is caucasian he will stand out in most parts of this world.
Someone probably beat me to it, but (Score:2)
Re:Someone probably beat me to it, but (Score:2)
Get a film camera (Score:2)
If you're going to be "out of touch" in major metropolitan areas outside the US then don't sweat it---there are WAY more Internet Cafe's outside the U.S. and contrary to popular belief there is civilization in other countries.
Vosonic X's Drive II (Score:4, Informative)
Camcorders take pics to dvd,but what about battery (Score:1)
Thanks for the replies! (Score:1)
One thing I neglected to mention is that part of the reason just 'mailing film' won't work is that this would be a digital operation -- hoping to get a few chances here and there to upload and describe images. Having a friend at home develop pictures would probably be more expensive than hanging on to a few CF cards or whatever..
About the volume of the pictures: it is true that 10,000 might be on the high side! Perhaps 5000 is more like it. ANd re
The trip and the Camera (Score:1)
Used Toughbooks, video cameras. (Score:2)
Buying a used Toughbook can be bit of an adventure. If the auction doesn't say the port covers are present and in good shape, they probably aren't. If it doesn't say the battery holds a useful charge, it
256MB Smart Media (Score:2)
paperclip and is about half as thick as a dime.
Carry a little USB adapter, and hit an Internet
cafe once every 3 months. You can store about
550 1600x1200 photos on one card. If you take
1000 photos per month, that's just 6 cards to
carry, which will weigh less than half an ounce
and take about 1cc of space in your kit.
Carrying around CDRs would be a pain. They are
too wide and flat, and inflexible, and very
likely to be destroyed -- not to mention the
camera that weigh
I've travlled alot taking that many photos.... (Score:1)
The advise is simple. Don't use digital
Film gives you better photos, is easier to carry and the practicallities of using it while abroad are simplier. The cameras and the storage are
Re:I've travlled alot taking that many photos.... (Score:3, Interesting)
With a digital camera they're not that much: when I bought one i noticed that I took about twice as many pics as before, if not more. Usually when I'm on a short trip (1/2 days - no storage problems) I take about 50-100 pics per day, if I'm in a good place.
Of course most of them are duplicates and when i'm home I select slight more than half of them for keeping, an
Re:I've travlled alot taking that many photos.... (Score:2)
Not many people posting to this thread seem to have ever traveled farther than their own backyards, so I'm piggybacking on your post as a fe
Where is he traveling? (Score:2)
Where is this mythical place he is traveling to? Antarctica? Northern Canada? A foot trip across the outback of Australia?
Sounds like an American who has never been more than 50 miles from his hometown, and thinks the rest of the world has no electricity or internet cafes. There are a few wild and savage areas on this planet, but for the most part you can
traveling (Score:1)
i brought along a small agfe camera with regular alkaline batteries.
it had internal storage for about 30 pictures and hooked up to any computer via usb.
i would then download the drivers from wherever i was ( you could carry them on disk as well) and whenever i filled up i would post them to Ofoto.com for free
this allowed me to send back an ongoing gallery of what i was doing.
Laptop, and lots of power converters. (Score:2)
Organization Stuff
Stuff the pictures into folders like this:
\yyyy\yyyymmdd
This allows the directory size to be managable, and since you're not likely to cause the camera to roll over, filenames aren't an issue.
Use a program such as Thumbs Plus [cerious.com] to view the photos, and prune (if you must). The "slide show" mode lets you rip through images for review like a
Been there done that (Score:2)
I may not be a typical tourist but I came nowhere close to 50 pix a day as one of the other posters wrote. We took a total of 2500 pictures. Don't forget to have fun without thinking of taking pistures all the time.
My CF cards held a maximum of 450 pix at a time. I regularly stopped at an Internet cafe to write the pix to a CD. There are Internet cafe's everywhere and they're rapidly catch
2 options (Score:1)
just buy a camera that can handle CDRWs... like the sony CD mavica:
Sony Mavica CD 300 [dpreview.com] or any other of these series. the media is not the standard but carrying 10 of them won't be much of a problem. mailing will be simple too. since it's a smaller CD, whenever you run into civilization, you can back up onto something else (the internet, bigger CDR, DVD, etc.) without needing non-standard p
CF card reader with built in Hard Drive? (Score:2)
What about one of these:
6 in 1 Card Reader (SM/MMC/SD/CF/Microdrive/Mstick) + Takes 2.5" HDD (not Supplied) [scan.co.uk]
According to the product info, it is battery powered and does not need a PC. You can copy data between flash cards and the internal hard drive.
Using one of these readers, the questioner could copy photos from their camera's flash card to a larger hard drive. They might then post the flash card home, while retaining a backup with them in case it is lost in the post.
I hope this helps.
Just use Internet Cafes (Score:1)
A digital option and a couple film options (Score:1)
For film, why not just send the film directly back to one of the
Scaling requirements (Score:2)
That said, I think CF is the way to go, wait until you are JUST ready to go before dropping into Fry's/etc. Look for the largest CF card you can get (512M today, 1GB tomorrow I am sure). Pick up as many as
Re:Scaling requirements (Score:2)
Yes, economically they make the most sense. But they have the highest risk too.
The larger the card the more pictures you will lose if the card fails you.
Try to find the sweet spot on price, number of pictures per card and the number of cards you want to carry.
Maybe buy cards based on an expectation of number of pictures to be taken within a time period (sy, 2 weeks) and mail them back to yourself or a friend. As others have said you don't want to lose the p
stop snapping, start looking (Score:2)
You know, since my camera broke, it's revolutionised my vacations. You've no idea of the difference it makes when you use both eyes to look at something. Depth perception, it brings a whole new dimension to your holiday.
If you backpack, they will steal it. (Score:2)
Most internet cafes can do run machines with USB and you should be able to transfer pictures back to a server but it will be slow. Many net cafes are a few dialups in parallel and you may get lucky and fin
personal preference (Score:2, Insightful)
The traveller needs to decide what his/her priorities are. Personally, in my experience, which includes 6 months of backpacking the Appalachian Trail in the US in 1999 and 5 months travelling overseas in 2000 (Asia, OZ, NZ), film is the way to go. The way I travel, the less shite I carry, the happier I am. With an SLR with one 50mm lens I didn't have to worry about batteries, or power adapters or even the value of the camera. When you start humping around a new digital camera, plus battery chargers, cd
Archos Jukebox (Score:2)
20GB portable hard drive with options up the ying-yang. Card readers and USB and cameras, oh my.
$400US.
As for being away from power, look at solar battery chargers, available at auto parts stores.
Re:regular film camera (Score:1)
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It's probably better to send developed film. It's difficult enough to avoid having hand-carried film xrayed, if you are mailing to countries with strict checking for agricultural or terrorist materials this is pre