Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In this age of type A super personalities, immediate gratification, and with the demand that there be absolutely no compromises, to an extent, I agree with Mark.... As an Amateur, you do not NEED to image process on the road...... ( Pros may have different needs, and that may be the problem with this whole thread... Pros vs Amateurs NEEDS). Go smell the roses instead......it is a trip, after all....... We just traveled to Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia) without a Laptop.... Quite a few rooms came equipped with Wired Internet access... no WIreless. We suspected this in advance.... We wanted to travel as light as possible.... My wife has a IPad.... It offers no wired anything....I added a wired to wireless Router ( about the size of a pack of cigarettes) made by Sapido There was nothing we could not do with this setup.... except do anything with my M8 files... Email, Surfing the WEB for our next Hotel, Booking hotels, etc. Her Canon Powershot P+S JPG files worked just fine....but certainly my M8 files were a no starter. We knew this when we left. It is a choice... We did not want the bulk and weight and complexity of a Laptop..... even a Netbook.... we needed a way to book hotels on the fly....but we also decided to not do anything with our image files until we got home. We will travel throughout the Western US with this same setup.... with the additional benefit of 3G..... ( no Sapido wireless router required) The IPad makes a perfectly good traveling computer, with the exception of DNG Image files. It is small, reasonably big screen, light. Works with a standard power adapter ( although it is Apple) that is serviced by 110V(US) or 220V ( Europe) and charges her additional "gadgets" as well. It took each of us 2 weeks ( part time) to run through our 2K+ images ( saved on the original taking SDHC cards). We are down to about 600 each... and have started to select the best images for a remembrance travel book for ourselves... akin to a scrapbook.... But the memories induced by going over those images were really great..... Back to the start.... you do not NEED to do image editing on the fly..... It is a choice... and it has its downsides... Go smell the roses...... Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net