How do you store digital photo's on vacation?

[ScubaRon]

I am mentally preparing my move to digital (that C-8080 looks mighty nice...), but wondering how to store the hundreds of pics I might take on a dive vacation. How do you do it?

• Bring a laptop
• Store them online
• ???

 

[gj62]

I just bring enough flash cards - its a bit more expensive, but better than hauling around my laptop. Storing online isn't usually an option, given internet connection speeds in many places.

 

[nauifins73]

I'm just getting started in the world of underwater photography but I carry my Laptop (that is the excuse I gave my hubby for getting at laptop - it would make keeping my photos so much easier). Plus I down load my dive computer each evening too.
Becky

 

[Charlie99]

Internet cafe with a CD burner. They had a reader for my XD cards, but lacking that, just bring the USB cable for your camera.

Charlie

 

[mandrake]

Internet cafe with a CD burner. They had a reader for my XD cards, but lacking that, just bring the USB cable for your camera.

Charlie

I have a Nixvue Vista, with 20GB hard drive. It's a portable storage device with a small LCD viewer. It reads CF cards (you need an adapter if you have another format), and a USB port for uploading to a computer.

There are lots of other similar devices. I remember seeing one that, instead of a hard drive, was a CD burner. You could just burn CDs on the spot, and not worry about them getting demagnetized on the way home like a card or hard drive might. (Apparently the one I'm thinking of is the Nixvue Vizor.)

 

[H2Andy]

i've never done it, but i was thinking of buying five or six extra SD cards. will also
help me keep the pics organized if i use one card per day and label them.

just a thought

 

[Michael Schlink]

We use a laptop, but we use the laptop for ther things so it's not a problem hauling it. I keep travel expenses on a spreadsheet, download dive computers, play DVD's, etc.

 

[Ted S]

While on most trips using more flash memory or a laptop is preferable but when you get home remember that we provide you with a lot of space to post them in our gallery. From personal experience I recommend you always make a cd or other physical copy just incase your computer goes down!

 

[Charlie99]

i've never done it, but i was thinking of buying five or six extra SD cards. will also
help me keep the pics organized if i use one card per day and label them.

You would probably be better off with a few large capacity cards rather than a bunch of small ones. You don't want to start a dive with just 36 shot capacity like a film camera.

My camera has a video out that I hook up to a TV to make a 1st cut review of photos. I end up throwing out more than half -- out of focus shots, shots of the lens cover, photos of nothing but a fish tail, etc.

I easily fit several days of photos onto one card.

Many cameras tag the shot with date and time, so doing multiple days on one card shouldn't complicate things too much.

 

[marpacifica]

I have a Nixvue Vista, with 20GB hard drive. It's a portable storage device with a small LCD viewer. It reads CF cards (you need an adapter if you have another format), and a USB port for uploading to a computer.

There are lots of other similar devices. I remember seeing one that, instead of a hard drive, was a CD burner. You could just burn CDs on the spot, and not worry about them getting demagnetized on the way home like a card or hard drive might. (Apparently the one I'm thinking of is the Nixvue Vizor.)

One problem I read about with the CD burners is the amount of data that you can fit on a CD. Specifically, the CD will hold around 700 megabytes, but that's not enough for a full 1 gigabyte CF card's data. Where are you going to put the extra data? I'm not sure what the Nixvue does if the CD doesn't have enough space -- I would think give you an error reading. You could get around the problem by storing less on your CF card, but that would defeat the purpose of getting such a large storage CF card. This probably won't be an issue with cameras with "smaller" files, but with the RAW files on my Fuji S2 Pro at full resolution, I can take around 50 shots on a 1 gigabyte CF card.

For my trips I will be bringing a laptop with 60 gigs of memory and burn some CDs as backup. If I run out of room I'll bring a warehouse of IBM punchcard machines