Transfer Digital Pictures from Flashcard to CD? 56
chimpo13 writes "I'm riding a 40-year-old, Italian made 250cc motorcycle round the world and doing a journal with pictures (avoiding the 'blog' word). Small bike, not much room, and I'm doing this on the cheap. There is no laptop because you can't trickle charge one. I'm looking for a flashcard to CD burner so I can post digital pictures. I need reliability, battery power, and hopefully someone makes one with an option to 'save for web' to speed up uploads in Internet cafés. Unless someone else has a better idea. I leave from Sydney Australia in 4 months if anyone world wide wants to give me a tour of their town, email me."
Kanguru FC-RW (Score:3, Informative)
piggy backing (Score:3, Informative)
I'm burning to a cd so I can post the photos on route without dealing with trying to put drivers on internet cafe computers. A friend of mine will fiddle with 'em so they load fast if I can't do that from the internet cafe computers.
It's a Ducati, being purposely built for the trip by Phil at Road & Race [roadandrace.com.au] in Sydney Austr
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
anyhow, while I understand you want to burn pics to cd from storage media, the question is why? if for archival purposes until you get pics uploaded then by all means go for it. if you are doing it in order to upload pics because you are afraid of running out of space, that may not be necessary. you are carrying more than 1 quantity of digital pic storage, are you not? many photo processing places in the U
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
Filthy rich is what Ewan MacGregor is. Him and a pal are riding round the world with brand new BMW bikes. While being followed by a film team in 4x4 trucks. They're doing their trip in 3 1/2 months.
I'd thought about
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
http://www.oasis-austin.com/
http://www.oasis- a ustin.com/wcv1.html
Shiner, TX (where they make that beer) is just down the road about 100 miles from us. http://www.shiner.com/home.html
They even have "Shiner Sound and Motion" on their website to let you experience the full effect
Also, about 100 miles away is Brenham, TX, the home of Blue Bell ice cream. http://www.bluebell.com/Default.htm
Quite a bit of difference 'twee
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
They started selling Shiner Bock up here. I'd love to tour their brewery.
Re:piggy backing (Score:2)
We have two of the Sony Mavica CD-350 and have had nothing but problems with them. They are very fragile when it comes to vibration, and haven't had good luck on pulling the pictures off.
I vote for the iPod and media reader. For a portable computer I use a HP Jornada 720. It has a built in modem or I use a wi
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
I wish there was an "adventure photographer" site where I could find out what works and what doesn't work. I'm not sure how modern most internet cafe computers are. That's why I'm uncertain what method to use for uploading pictur
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
Re:piggy backing (Score:1)
I'm leaning towards an Addonics MFR, but I'm still looking around.
This may work (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.roadstor.com/
If you have an iPod (Score:3, Informative)
CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter (Score:2)
I am guessing that you were planning on finding some sort of computer to send the pictures to the Internet once you had them on CD, so just short circuit the
Re:CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter (Score:1, Redundant)
http://www.roadstor.com/
Re:CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter (Score:3, Informative)
That said, unless the OP is going to be saving all his CDs and posting pictures to the web once he gets home, he is going to need to find a computer to read the CDs he creates while he is on the journey and the computers he finds will likely be able to read the CD directly with either a CF to PCMCIA adapter, or a USB CF reader - and both of these are incredibly light and cheap. Put the $199 from the RoadStor or
Re:CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter (Score:2)
Apacer (Score:4, Informative)
Works fine.
Does exactly what you're describing. Fairly small, runs on 110-240VAC at 50-60Hz. Writes CDs at something like 24x.
You can burn multiple cards to a single CD (multisession), or a single card to multiple CDs (spanning) depending on your relative CD/Flash capacities.
It'll play your pictures as a slide show on a TV, or play DVDs, if that's what you're looking for. You can use it as a USB external CD drive for your computer, if you want. I haven't used either of these features. It does not have a built-in LCD for viewing pictures (there is one for copy status).
As an alternative (Score:2, Informative)
At least it'd let you empty those media cards and get to an internet cafe with a CD burner less often.
Looks like the Kangaru CD-burner (above) might meet your needs better if you can justify the price tag.
How about a portable hard drive? (Score:2)
The only downside is a lack of disposable batteries for your use. But you might be able to rig something up with your bike, considering the power usage of the thing.
Keep a web archive instead (Score:1)
I've found myself quite happy with Gallery ( gallery.sourceforge.net )
for this sort of thing. It's got a java applet that lets you upload
pictures, or you could upload via standard html. Thus, take your photos,
fill your card, find an internet cafe or a friendly stranger, upload the
photos, and repeat.
Gallery auto-thumbnails so you don't have to worry about mass
conversions, although it may take a bit of time if you do want to
preserve the photo's quality by uploading the full size image.
For what it'
Trickle charge your laptop. (Score:4, Informative)
To trickle charge your laptop, you break the chargin into two steps:
1) Trickle charge a suitable gell cell or other battery (via solar or generator on cycle)
2) Charge laptop from battery
If you are misery with your energy, you can charge a small battery with a small solar panel on your cycle all day, then charge your laptop from the battery for an hour or two at night (or simply use the battery for power, get rid of the laptop battery)
Pros: get to charge battery all day, don't need to leave laptop with charger or cycle while battery is charging (safer).
Cons: have to lug around another 5-10 pounds of stuff.
Also, you might consider using an ipaq or similar pda. It'll be less power hungry and time consuming than a cd burner, and with built in wireless you're liable to find more open hotspots than you are liable to find cyber cafe's. Connection and transmission speed should be higher going directly from the flash card to the wireless internet than from flash to cd to computer to wired internet.
-Adam
Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:4, Insightful)
Either way, it is going to be more compact and reliable than dragging around a fragile CD writer + batteries and, unless you hope to buy them along the way, fragile and bulky CD-R discs. Copy the Win98 drivers onto a floppy, and you'll have no problem finding a compatible computer to upload images from the CF cards.
Re:Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:2)
A sustained 3 fps chews up memory like a mofo, especially when you're shooting at 3008 x 2000.
My philosophy is shoot 'em all, and sort it out when you get home. The time spent during traveling is best spent experiencing everything; I'll have plenty of time to sort and organize when I get back home.
Re:Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:2)
Even if you did, at an average of 2,200kB per image with acceptable compression from a 6.1MP camera (that is about what I typically see), you could get upwards of 3700 pictures on the 2 4GB cards. That's 10 "keeper" pictures every day for a year. If that is not enough, just keep buying those $200 MuVo2s.
Re:Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:2)
Re:Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:2)
But veering as you said, I'm just looking for a reliable way to load photos onto my site from an internet cafe. No idea what sort of computers are around the world, so I figure burn 'em onto a cd. It'd be the easiest way of loading the
Re:Two MuVo2s + USB2.0 CF Reader = solution (Score:2)
A Harddrive is worth (a bunch of) CDs. (Score:3, Informative)
By the way, if you have any sort of sendoff from Sacto, let me know, and I'll buy you a beer. I was at the Trekkies II filming and also heard you (I think it was you) on KDVS awhile back, and I've been following your plans for travel here on Slashdot. No Kill I is one of the reasons I moved cross country. A region thick with Star Trek bands that don't take themselves seriously seemed pretty cool.
Good luck with the trip.
--
Evan "Gorn Subgenius"
Addonics MFR (Score:1)
Re:Are you russian? (Score:2)
Do you happen to be a hot Russian chick who is known for riding through Chernobyle?
Wrong bike.
And while she may or may not be considered hot (literally, even!
I'm darn sure not inviting him to my town, I'd have him camped in my living room for a month while he tried to get parts
seems crazy (Score:2)
I would use maybe 10 256MB CF cards and bring a $10 usb card reader
the large number of CF cards also provides a small measure of "redundancy"
Re:seems crazy (Score:1)
even if you can't trickle charge a laptop, as long as you can kick start your bike, you don't have to worry too much about using its battery for your electronics.
HD 6 in 1 memory card reader (Score:4, Interesting)
http://secure.serverlab.net/shop/merchant.mvc?Scr
The only caveat would be that you need to be able to hook up to a USB port at the Internet Cafe.
Can't remember what mine is, but it I found it for USD$99 for 10GB storage.
Why are the CD's in the equation (Score:4, Insightful)
Why not just buy extra flash cards, enough so that you don't fill them up completely between cafes.
Then use a wireless PDA with flash reader to upload in the cafe, but if you're lucky the will already have a flash reader.
-- John.
Archos Multimedia (Score:3, Informative)
The package I got included a gizmo that let me read compact flash, so I was able to backup all my Honeymoon photos to this device while travelling.
It is possible to charge it a lot more easily than a laptop and since it only needs to run for as long as it takes to transfer photos then it could probably go a long time between charges.
It's also a standard USB hard disk so you can plug it in to a regular PC at an opportune moment and back up things further.
SONY (Score:1)
Burn your photo/video directly in CD...
Re:SONY (Score:2)
Kiosks (Score:3, Informative)
Also, will you be staying with friends? I burnt some photos to CD for friends travelling with a Kodak CF-based camera. I don't know what most other people are like, but my home PC can read SM, CF and MMC, at work we can also read Memory Stick, and a couple of close friends can read SD.
Re:Kiosks (Score:1)
Re:Kiosks (Score:2)
Be surprised if someone says they have SD support but not MMC.
Re:Yes you CAN trickle-charge a battery from a cyc (Score:1)
Old Ducatis are 6 volt typically running with a 40 or 60 watt alternator. This bike will be updated with a 12 volt system and a (Honda or Yamaha) electronic ignition instead of points. I'm not sure how many watts the alternator will put out.
When I asked about trickle charging a laptop battery before, it wasn't working out. It got a lot of "you're an idiot" type responses, but the helpful ones said even if it works, trickle charging is hell on laptop batteries.
I forwarded the good respons
PDA (Score:3, Interesting)
Wal Mart (Score:1)
Re:Wal Mart (Score:1)
Re:Wal Mart (Score:1)
Apple iPod? (Score:2)
Get an Ipod and Belkin iPod Media Reader (Score:1)
Why can't you charge your laptop? (Score:1)
Re:Why can't you charge your laptop? (Score:1)