Michal Kwiatkowski

Hi,
does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
(CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to
be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)

Regards,
Michal.

Wes

A big chain of stores is offering booths to put your photos onto CD. I
think it was Harvey Norman (an electrical goods reseller), if not is
was one of th pharmacies or supermarkets.
Most photo stores offer the same service.

Regards,
Wes (from Oz)

Www.Poms.Co.Uk

"Michal Kwiatkowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Hi,
    > does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
    > (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to be
    > safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    > Regards,
    > Michal.


Yeah most towns will have a photo shop where u can transfer pics to CD but
always make sure thay have copy the 2 cd ok before erase the pics on your
memory card just in case


ta



http://www.poms.co.uk/austsraliansimcard.htm

Richard

Michal Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote in news:cn5h7n$50e$1
@mamut1.aster.pl:

    > Hi,
    > does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital
camera
    > (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want
to
    > be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    >
    > Regards,
    > Michal.

Trouble with this approach is that you have to trust whomever you meet
in your travels to do a good job, or just to have good facilities. Might
not be a problem in large centres, but if you find yourself in some
isolated place, and need to empty your memory cards, you just might have
a problem. Could be the weekend, too, and most places close up around
dinner time. Very possible you could find yourself out of luck.

Also, would you have the opportunity of checking to make sure all of
those shots have truly been copied, no errors, before the memory card is
then reformated? Too risky for me.

Last winter (Feb - March) we went on a two-month trip across Australia.
I decided rather than have someone write on CDs every time, just to
empty my memory card, I would bring along a 'portable hard drive'. I
choose the PicturePad - comes in 20 Gig and 30 Gig, plenty of room for
most people on most trips. I had no trouble dumping my stuff every
evening onto the PicturePad, then starting the next day with fresh empty
memory cards. The PicturePad runs on batteries too, so the outback was
no problem for several days at a time, without an electrical plug in
sight.

Alternatively you could come with 3-4 of the extra large cards, 2 Gig.
These would take quite a while to fill up, plenty of time to get from
one city to the next, perhaps(?).

Anyway, best of luck. If this is your first trip to Australia, I envy
you. We had an extraordinary time. BTW, I was fairly careful not to
'waste shots' as my cards were only 1/2 gig size, and they would be full
at the end of the day. Shot a total of 8.2 Gigabytes of pics in the two
months we were there. I count on shooting at least double that rate on
our next trip.

Richard

Ac

You're better off getting a HDD based system. Either a cheap laptop to
download to, or there is a multitude of devices that are designed to simply
store CF data.

Although I wouldn't recommend it, I have an Archos 20G jukebox I take
everywhere, it has CF etc adaptors. At the end of the day you can just dump
to the HDD. It's best to wait till you get home to sort out printing.


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    > Hi,
    > does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
    > (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to
    > be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    > Regards,
    > Michal.


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Michal Kwiatkowski wrote:

    > Hi,
    > does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
    > (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to
    > be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    >
    > Regards,
    > Michal.

What I did on my trip to Australia last month was to buy a special
memory card reader and copied the pictures to the iPod's hard drive.
That method worked out fine for me. Though if you don't have an iPod
already then I would imagine that getting a camera or computer store to
copy your pictures to disk would be cheaper.

ALV

xxtonyxx

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Michal Kwiatkowski wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
    >> (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to
    >> be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    >>
    >> Regards,
    >> Michal.
    >What I did on my trip to Australia last month was to buy a special
    >memory card reader and copied the pictures to the iPod's hard drive.
    >That method worked out fine for me. Though if you don't have an iPod
    >already then I would imagine that getting a camera or computer store to
    >copy your pictures to disk would be cheaper.
    >ALV


You will also find that most internet cafes also have facilities to do
this for you or have the programs so you can do it yourself.

Worked alright for us in Jan/Feb when we did a 7 week trip around.

I used to just drop the stuff of the cards to CD's each 2 ~ 3 days.

As others have suggested...... always check that they are all on the
disc's BEFORE you clear the cards.....

Tony

Peter

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
    > You will also find that most internet cafes also have facilities to do
    > this for you or have the programs so you can do it yourself.

I just got back from a weekend in Sydney. The youth hostel where I
stayed had a line of Internet machines and one of them had a card reader
and CD burner for precisely this purpose. This is becoming standard
practice as digital cameras become increasingly common. Camera shops
will do the same for a fee.

Alternatively you could take along a laptop, though of course this adds
its own complications of weight, expense and security. I took mine along
and was able to upload my photographs at my convenience and burn CDs for
my friends.

Pete, which he is busy documenting his weekend at
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2223459

___

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    > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    > >Michal Kwiatkowski wrote:
    > >
    > >> Hi,
    > >> does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital camera
    > >> (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want to
    > >> be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    > >>

JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size.
YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought

Peter

In article <[email protected]>, ___ says...
    > JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this size.
    > YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have thought

At one point in my weekend I noticed that I had run out of room on my
card. Odd, I thought - there should be room for lots more. So I reviewed
the earlier shots and deleted a few that I had already uploaded to my PC
and kept on shooting. But somehow, no matter how many I deleted, I could
only take one more shot each time. And the camera wasn't showing the
just-taken image each time I pressed the button. It was almost as if I'd
put it into movie mode...

Which, of course, I had. Something had knocked the mode selector and I
was taking enough video footage each time to use up the remaining memory
card.

Richard

"___" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    >
    ><[email protected] not really> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:55:03 GMT, Andrew Venor <[email protected]>
    >> wrote:
    >> >Michal Kwiatkowski wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> Hi,
    >> >> does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital
    >> >> camera (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I
    >> >> just want to be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    >> >>
    >
    > JUst by a few 512MB or 1GB SD cards if you camera can support this
    > size. YOu'll get a few 1000 shots worth should be enough I would have
    > thought

"A few 512 cards or a 1 Gb card" will *not* give you 'a few 1000 shots' or
anything close.

I get 130 'finest quality' JPG shots out of a 512 card. My Canon G5 had
typically 2.5 - 3.5Mb Jpgs (finest quality), my Canon EOS 20D gives me 5+
Mb for each fine Jpg. And if I choose to shoot both Jpg and RAW, the count
goes down to just 36 pics for a 512 card.

Of course the more pixels your camera has, the larger the saved pic. If you
are using a smaller camera, and saving in not the finest quality, obviously
you increase the number of pics.

I still argue for either a portable harddrive of some sort, or a laptop
computer - although this tends to be bulky and generally not handy for
travelling I think. The portable hard drive fits in your pocket.

Runge

Buy an X's drive in Australia...reliable and cheap

"Richard" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
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    > Michal Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote in news:cn5h7n$50e$1
    > @mamut1.aster.pl:
    >> Hi,
    >> does anyone have any experience with copying photos from digital
    > camera
    >> (CF memory card) to CD while traveling across Australia? I just want
    > to
    >> be safe in case I run out of memory on card :)
    >> Regards,
    >> Michal.
    > Trouble with this approach is that you have to trust whomever you meet
    > in your travels to do a good job, or just to have good facilities. Might
    > not be a problem in large centres, but if you find yourself in some
    > isolated place, and need to empty your memory cards, you just might have
    > a problem. Could be the weekend, too, and most places close up around
    > dinner time. Very possible you could find yourself out of luck.
    > Also, would you have the opportunity of checking to make sure all of
    > those shots have truly been copied, no errors, before the memory card is
    > then reformated? Too risky for me.
    > Last winter (Feb - March) we went on a two-month trip across Australia.
    > I decided rather than have someone write on CDs every time, just to
    > empty my memory card, I would bring along a 'portable hard drive'. I
    > choose the PicturePad - comes in 20 Gig and 30 Gig, plenty of room for
    > most people on most trips. I had no trouble dumping my stuff every
    > evening onto the PicturePad, then starting the next day with fresh empty
    > memory cards. The PicturePad runs on batteries too, so the outback was
    > no problem for several days at a time, without an electrical plug in
    > sight.
    > Alternatively you could come with 3-4 of the extra large cards, 2 Gig.
    > These would take quite a while to fill up, plenty of time to get from
    > one city to the next, perhaps(?).
    > Anyway, best of luck. If this is your first trip to Australia, I envy
    > you. We had an extraordinary time. BTW, I was fairly careful not to
    > 'waste shots' as my cards were only 1/2 gig size, and they would be full
    > at the end of the day. Shot a total of 8.2 Gigabytes of pics in the two
    > months we were there. I count on shooting at least double that rate on
    > our next trip.
    > Richard

Richard

"Runge" <[email protected]> wrote in news:419f1be2$0$8183$8fcfb975
@news.wanadoo.fr:

    > Buy an X's drive in Australia...reliable and cheap


The X's Drive seems to be based in the UK (least that's the web page I
found). Interesting that it can be bought in Australia. It's similar to the
PicturePad that I use (www.delkin.com) but I have no information about its
reliability. It's considerably cheaper that the PicturePad, which to me
indicates it may not be as reliable. If it's the same as Digibin, then
forget it. I had one of those and gave it back. OTOH it may be a super
product.

There are a number of issues in the portable hard drive market (reliability
being the first issue).

I would urge anyone thinking about buying any storage system to go online
to chat groups (such as
http://www.steves-digicams.com/digi_...s.html#storage)
where you'll find out how users like/dislike certain storage systems as
well as a lot more information about each one.

Richard

Richard

"Runge" <[email protected]> wrote in news:419f1be2$0$8183$8fcfb975
@news.wanadoo.fr:

    > Buy an X's drive in Australia...reliable and cheap


For the record, Runge, having looked up some information on X'S drives,
where can you get them in Australia (*with a hard drive* since they don't
come with one!). You have to install the hard drive, and I know they aren't
difficult to install, but there is the bother of having to buy one...

They do look like an interesting product. Just wondering how easy to find
in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne) and how much...

Richard