Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Craig. I'm with Nathan and Tina AND the folks saying get a bunch of extra cards. I've settled on all my new cards now in the 4GB size (not too many eggs in the one basket compromise) For me 4GB is about a battery charge anyway so you are opening the camera. I really like to have a laptop when travelling for the obvious mail and web reasons too. Plus of course you can use it like a decent photo album if you want to show stuff along the way. So my strategy is: Have a stack of cards, copy from the filled ones at the end of the day to the laptop and put the card aside as well. If you are carrying the laptop you can add one of those tiny portable external HDDs as well. Using ACR (and no doubt LR etc) you can automate import AND an extra copy to the external HDD at the same time. That's three copies on separate devices/media. If you somehow fill all of the cards you brought (and I did!), you can double check the copies and then reuse the cards as needed. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 04:06 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Travel hard drive? Hi Craig, I see you got a lot of replies already, but I will still throw in my ?0.02. I travel a fair amount, and usually I take my Powerbook G4 with me. On the 2-week trip to Poland and Germany I just finished, I used a big Domke bag as my only carry-on item. It held the laptop, the M8 and 2 lenses, my organizer, passport, chargers, spare batteries, reading stuff for the plane and various other odds and ends. In my checked suitcase I put an empty Domke 803 satchel. Once I arrived at my sister's, I transferred the M8 and lenses to the 803 and left the computer at her apartment. Same thing when we went to Berlin (substitute hotel for apartment). The advantage of this setup is that the Powerbook has enough horsepower to process images in Lightroom so that when I came home Tuesday afternoon, I had already processed the 1000 images from the trip during the evenings. But if you really do not want to carry a laptop, then you should consider the new 9" tiny notebooks from the likes of Acer and Asus. They are small enough to fit in an 803 satchel, come in Windows or Linux versions, and despite their small size are fully-featured computers. They cost no more than the better stand-alone devices from Vosonic etc. but do so much more. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Craig Semetko wrote: > Hey All, > > I'm doing some more traveling soon and don't want to lug my laptop > around everywhere. > > Can someone recommend a very small inexpensive device to download > several hundred pictures from an SD card on to? > > TIA, > > Cheers, > > Craig > > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information