On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
... a nice carrying case for them all (http://tinyurl.com/9mgtz). ...
That's a good card case you found.
I've been using the Lowepro DMC-Z Compact Slim Digital Memory Pouch,
http://tinyurl.com/7skbs
which is conveniently slim and light, but I find it a bit fussy in use.
...Bruce had one of those PD7X-type thingies when
we got together at the last meeting, and i thought it was very
cool. Were
I to be travelling, making a long trip, I'd consider one, but I'd
probably
not carry it while out shooting. It could stay wherever I took up
residence and I'd DL the cards when I returned from the events of
the day.
Of course, having such a device gives pause for thought as to the
capacity
needed. Would 80gb be enough for whatever the length of the trip
might be?
For the DS that's about 7500 pix in RAW.
Your thoughts are exactly the same as mine. :-)
The Epson P2000 has a 40G drive. In three weeks of fairly heavy
shooting this past May-June, I made about 2800 exposures, all stored
in RAW format, and consumed approximately 25G of the available space.
I had about 1G worth of JPEG files and another 1G worth of
miscellaneous music and video on it too. The key thing about this
(somewhat expensive) device is that the large display makes it very
useful when traveling to share photos with friends and do your own
review without needing to carry a laptop. If you don't want/need
editing capabilities on the road, but do want to see how your work is
progressing, it's a boon.
While others might have a need for more capacity than that, that's
enough for me! They are making an 80G version now for those that need
it: the Epson P4000.
Another storage device option is something like the Apacer Disc Steno
CP300, http://tinyurl.com/c9o98
It's a standalone CD/DVD writer and card reader. The display isn't
much to speak of, but it can do review, output to computer or video
too. Only downside is that with a CD/DVD writer you also have to
carry blank media. You'll need 1 DVD-R to back 4x 1G cards to off-
line when they're full. That means I would have consumed about 30 DVD-
R blanks on my trip ... that gets a little bulky to carry.
For secondary backup, since I knew I'd be somewhere that a friend has
a computer with USB 2.0 and FireWire connectivity, I brought a pocket
60G FireWire drive along. Much more compact than DVD-R media. I made
a complete backup of the Epson two days before returning home, which
gave me two copies of every file (the remaining two days' work fit on
my storage cards as well as on the P2000).
Godfrey
