Guten tag Laurenz,
I agree with our other photo buddies. Although it is a hassle, having a laptop with CD/Dvd burn abilities is the best answer. I have an older laptop with an external CD burner and an external HD as part of my kit. Yes it adds additional weight and battery issues, but I have never failed to have at least one copy of my images when I got home. Often I will also leave the images on the CF card too. I don't format until I have them stored in at least two other places.
CF cards are so inexpensive that I have enough for at least 4 days of shooting without having to download and format.
I am not at all comfortable with CF cards over 2 gigs yet. My camera also takes CF and SD cards but I have yet to use that feature.
Hey the next time you are in the Rhineland Pfalze area stop by Pirmasens and have a Parkbrau for me OK?
Choos
Les Baldwin
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurenz Bobke
Sent: Feb 13, 2006 1:10 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Saving images on the road
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurenz Bobke
Sent: Feb 13, 2006 1:10 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Saving images on the road
when I got my small Lumix FX8, I also bought an "Imax" portable HDD to store the pictures on the road. Worked fine - while I was at home.
A few days into my Scotland/Ireland trip, it just refused to copy anything.
I had quite an interesting time finding Internet cafes that actually allowed me to copy my data onto a CD (just about every 2nd day of the trip...).
A special highlight were the Jessops shops that renamed and even resized part of the files (not all)...
Now, I thought I might buy something decent for my next trip, but looking at the comments by customers I find that there are many similar stories for just about all brands including the GigaVu, Archos, Hama etc...
One (satisfied!) customer even reported that in warm climates his device seemed to lose all data, but was able to retrieve them after putting it in the fridge for a while.
Turning to portable CD writers and DVD burners, I read loads of horror stories about media being verified - only to turn out unreadable afterwards.
Is this just a sort of "publication bias" - people who are completely happy do not write in forums?
Or are the risks real?
Does anyone here know a reliable portable medium?
I'm already starting to look at ultraportable subnotebooks that could burn the data on CD or DVD and on their HDD.
I have just ordered a Minolta 7D, so there'll be many more digital files from now on...
