Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, The best backup device for travel is a Hyperdrive: https://www.hypershop.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=133 Highly recommended - never failed me yet. Buy the casing and slip in your drive of choice - I now use 500 GB drives for long wildlife trips. I usually take two so that I have two backups, just in case (call me paranoid!). Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > Well, we are back from our whilrwind trip to Gibraltar, Morocco, and Spain > and I'm downloading the photos now. The biggest lesson I learned this trip > was to never again travel without a computer! I thought for such a short > trip, I would just take lots of SD cards and my Kindle to check e-mail. > Big mistake! I had bought 4 32GB Transcend cards and they did NOT work. > They would work fine for awhile and then get hung up on data transfer for > hours. I would have to take the battery and card out to get them to work > again and then half the time it would tell me I had no photos on the card > when I actually had several hundred. I quit using those and only had my > old, smaller cards to use. The 32GB cards are going back to Amazon. I > have no idea what I lost but I think the wedding photos are safe on 4GB > cards. I missed having the opportunity to download photos and review them > at night before taking more the next day. My little Acer netbook would not > have been much larger than the Kindle and I could have used it for > downloading photos, too. I also missed the security of making two copies > to keep in different locations which I usually do on trips. > > The M9 and MM worked fine even in torrential downpours. I used the 35/1.4, > 24/2.8, and 90/2.0 far more than any of the other lenses I took. I think I > could have done fine with just those three. > > I also have to catch up on all of the e-mails which were too hard to read > and answer using the Kindle! I did like it for reading and guidebooks, > though. > > Photos will follow someday! > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >