Digital cameras: Photo Storage While Backpacking
Photo Storage While Backpacking
by JonathanGarro - 10/17/08 10:44 PMI am shopping around for a new camera, and have a question about storage. I am planning on taking gigs and gigs of photos (I'll be in South America for two years with the Peace Corps), and will not have my laptop with me. What I am looking for is some way of storing the photos onto an external hard drive without having to connect it to a computer. Is there a product that reads the contents of a memory card and stores them? I'd rather not just take a bunch of memory cards.
There are several. I have two, but the one I
by Kiddpeat - 10/18/08 12:16 AM In reply to: Photo Storage While Backpacking by JonathanGarrousually use is Wolverine. It usually will download 4-5 gigs of photos on one charge of its battery. You need access to electricity to charge the battery.
You probably need to develop a backup strategy. Two years of photos stored on one hard drive is an invitation to disaster.
Tough Dilema
by JayMonster - 10/22/08 7:13 AM In reply to: Photo Storage While Backpacking by JonathanGarroI understand you not wanting to bring a bunch of memory cards, but a single device that you download all your photos to provides a single point of failure where you could in theory lose everything if something goes wrong with that one device.
Basically I would actually recommend, if you are not going to have any way to connect to the internet over that span would be to get a battery powered drive device like the Digital Foci Photo Safe II 160GB Stand-Alone Data Storage Unit, but also bring a lot of memory cards as having the files both on the storage unit AND on the memory cards would be the only way to ensure your photos are (relatively) safe from device failure.
Of course if you will have occasional Internet access, you could periodically upload to a site that will store them for you, providing the redundancy without having to keep duplicates with you.
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