Alternatives for storage on travel

Antonio Correia

Alternatives for the expensive Epson P-7000 Multimedia Storage Viewer ?

Doesn't need to review the photos.

Just to be used as a "store" and with no need of computer.

Any tip please ? :bow

ziggy53

It partly depends on the type of cards you want to transfer. For non-UDMA Compact Flash and original SD cards (not SDHC or SDXC) I am still using an old HyperDrive HD80 in the field, and then that plugs into a standard laptop PC for review and initial sorting/editing. (The HyperDrive simply shows as an external drive to the laptop computer and transfer is very fast via USB 2.) If you can find a good used HyperDrive HD80 and if you use older memory cards, I can recommend the HD80 as a good, basic backup and offload device.

For newer cards, the Sanho 160GB HyperDrive COLORSPACE UDMA seems to be the current best value in a new device. It supports SDHC and CF with UDMA.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/594348-REG/Sanho_SHDCSUDMA160_HyperDrive_COLORSPACE_UDMA.html

To be honest, the cost of card storage has come down enough that I don't use the HyperDrive too much anymore, I just have lots of flash cards.

Art Scott

When I travel, I normally take laptop so I just fill cards and when I get back to laptop off load......I currently have 16 cf cards...14 - 8gb and 2 16 gb......I have not even come close to fill all the cards in 1 days shooting.....but I will be buying more as the price drops.

Skorri

I have a 100gb Wolverine reader/drive. About 6 yrs old and still going strong. Nothing fancy but does the trick. I'm sure a slow transfer speed to what might be out there now.

ThatCanonGuy

I just buy more CF cards :P

Antonio Correia

Thank you all for your efforts.

I solved the problem the lightest and easiest way: A CF card borrowed by my son with 32 GB which is a Kingston elite pro writing only at 25MB/sec ! Too slow !

Yes, I know it is dangerous. If one loses it or if it just fails everything is lost. We can't have everything in life can we ?

Moreover - I like this word - I use an old 20 D and and old 5D. So, the capacity is far more than enough.

Plus: it is light. It is not another "thing" to drag around travelling abroad.

I just came from Budapest and still with much room for more images.

Thank you again guys. I know I can always count on you

I am counting to buy one CF card of 32 GB from Sandisk

On SanDisk® Extreme® CompactFlash® Card the speed is 60MB/s which is very good for my old cams and for myself

Matthew Saville

If you could never shoot more than 32 GB of images on these travels, then I think a 32 GB CF card is a GREAT pocket backup. You can keep it with you at all times, or you can mail it home separately at the end of your trip or something. That's what I do for out of town weddings, I load the photos onto a huge CF card, or an iPod, and I just drop it in the mail to myself.

Alternately, if you need far more storage then I recommend a Hyperdrive. $250 for the bare shell, and you can get a 250 GB 2.5" disk these days for $50.

=Matt=

Svennie

While traveling I switch cards regularly: after a few days or after several hundred photos. Although I managed to retrieve almost every photo, one card failed on me without the camera giving an error. I found out only when I got home. Imagine what would have happened if I kept using the card throughout my trip...
On longer trips I carry an HDD with build-in card reader: excellent device! When I travel by car/plane or whatever I keep the HDD in a different bag. If I loose either one, I still have all the photos.

Antonio Correia

Indeed the best solution is to travel with several smaller cards and one HDD specialy where the web is not available or too slow or even too difficult to connect.

The idea - solution - of Svennie is just great while Matthew is also right.

The iPod may be an interesting solution but one must be careful about it's power as it must be completely charged before any transfer of data.

I found myself in some kind of trouble because of that !

guys

Art Scott

Antonio Correia wrote: »

Thank you all for your efforts.

I solved the problem the lightest and easiest way: A CF card borrowed by my son with 32 GB which is a Kingston elite pro writing only at 25MB/sec ! Too slow !

Yes, I know it is dangerous. If one loses it or if it just fails everything is lost. We can't have everything in life can we ?

Moreover - I like this word - I use an old 20 D and and old 5D. So, the capacity is far more than enough.

Plus: it is light. It is not another "thing" to drag around travelling abroad.

I just came from Budapest and still with much room for more images.

Thank you again guys. I know I can always count on you

I am counting to buy one CF card of 32 GB from Sandisk

On SanDisk® Extreme® CompactFlash® Card the speed is 60MB/s which is very good for my old cams and for myself

I am going to suggest acouple to 4 Transcend 600x 16gb cards.....I have 2 plus 14 8gb cards from 80x to 600x.....and for normal travel shooting (landscapes, city scapes people) even the slowest are fine.....when I head off for an event then it is my 600x cards with a few of the 133X just in case.....

If you left with 1 32gb card and came home with room left, you had to be shooting jpg.....I could fill a 16gb card easilty in a day in Budapest or Prague or anywhere abroad... :~)

Hope to see some images soon.

Antonio Correia

Art Scott wrote: »

I am going to suggest acouple to 4 Transcend 600x 16gb cards.....I have 2 plus 14 8gb cards from 80x to 600x.....and for normal travel shooting (landscapes, city scapes people) even the slowest are fine.....when I head off for an event then it is my 600x cards with a few of the 133X just in case.....

If you left with 1 32gb card and came home with room left, you had to be shooting jpg.....I could fill a 16gb card easilty in a day in Budapest or Prague or anywhere abroad... :~)

Hope to see some images soon.

Just a quick reply for the moment.
How about this Art ?

Art Scott

Love it Antonio....as always you have great images....

Antonio Correia

The image is twisted !!!! cry

I 'll do it all over again !

Thank you Art

rpcrowe

I never needed faster cards
I used older and slower CF cards when I shot with a 30D and a 40D. Now that I have a 7D which uses larger files I can see the difference between fast UDMA cards and the older slower cards. I was able to get a wonderful deal on two 16GB UDMA CF cards and that (along with my many slower cards) is enough for most trips since I always carry a notebook computer and download each evening, backing up on a pair of tiny (physical size) 500 DG external hard drives...

Sam

My solution for road trips is a laptop and an external Lacie ruged hard drive. I want two copies of all images.

Last trip to Death Valley I came back with 7000+ images. I don't want take any chances I will lose them after spending a lot of money and time on the trip.

Sam

Antonio Correia

Thank you all for the help.

You have been very useful

JimKarczewski

I don't know about slow with those Kingstons.. I use the 133x Elite Pro for video, so they aren't THAT slow... Cheap, very! 32GB are down to around $60US now. I have 2x32 and 2x16... and use them for almost all my assignments.

That being said, I'm also recovering one of those as I write this, but I think it's due to the crappy FireWire reader I've been using since my USB is in my camera bag for location work (that's going to change very soon!)

Antonio Correia

Thank you Jim

Dalis

Matthew's tip on mailing your card or ipod to yourself while traveling works great. I have done that. There's no concern about damage or loss while you're traveling and it's trackable too

Darci
Casie Zalud Photography: Destination Wedding Photographer

Antonio Correia

Dalis wrote: »

Matthew's tip on mailing your card or ipod to yourself while traveling works great. I have done that. There's no concern about damage or loss while you're traveling and it's trackable too

Darci
Casie Zalud Photography: <a href="http://www.casiezalud.com/destination-weddings/">Destination Wedding Photographer</a>

Well Dalis, that is a good point.

However, that depends where you are sending the files from. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/mwink.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

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joeinmiami

One of the reasons I decided to go for the D7000 is its ability to have 2 cards and have one be the backup of the other. When I travel I take several hundred photos then change BOTH cards for new ones, then I store the cards in different areas, such as one in my camera bag and the other in my wife's purse, so if I lose one I still have the other. I buy high capacity cards, usually no bigger that 16gb.

This way I do not have to carry another device.

Joe

Antonio Correia

joeinmiami wrote: »

One of the reasons I decided to go for the D7000 is its ability to have 2 cards and have one be the backup of the other. When I travel I take several hundred photos then change BOTH cards for new ones, then I store the cards in different areas, such as one in my camera bag and the other in my wife's purse, so if I lose one I still have the other. I buy high capacity cards, usually no bigger that 16gb.

This way I do not have to carry another device.

Joe

Good point

AceCo55

I know you you said "no need for computer", and if you think a laptop is too big/heavy to carry around, have you thought about a netbook. With a 10" screen you will be able to review your images on a screen much larger than your camera, you will have a second copy and you should be able to get one with plenty of hard drive space. Both daughters and my wife have all been overseas separately over the last year and they all took the family netbook. None of them complained about its weight/size - in fact they all thought it was great (plus they could all do webcam calls and Facebook etc when they got to civilisation). Prices of netbooks are dirt cheap.

Antonio Correia

AceCo55 wrote: »

I know you you said "no need for computer", and if you think a laptop is too big/heavy to carry around, have you thought about a netbook. With a 10" screen you will be able to review your images on a screen much larger than your camera, you will have a second copy and you should be able to get one with plenty of hard drive space. Both daughters and my wife have all been overseas separately over the last year and they all took the family netbook. None of them complained about its weight/size - in fact they all thought it was great (plus they could all do webcam calls and Facebook etc when they got to civilisation). Prices of netbooks are dirt cheap.

To tell you the truth I had not thought of a notebook. :cry

It is indeed a very good and practical idea. My wife has one of those little devices and I think I will take it with us thanks to yours great suggestion.

very much

jww

I used to use my laptop for this, but a few years ago that idea went south quickly and thought I would share.

I shoot events and would get carried away with shooting to the point I started having 26,000+ pics over the course of 4 days. Well... maybe needless to say, I quickly filled up my laptop as I also have other software on there including a few games. A bit of a problem when far from home. So I made private galleries here on smugmug and loaded the overflow, though at hotel internet speed it was slow. However, really not a bad remote backup if you have access!

So I guess my point is make sure you have a large enough drive for your personal shooting habits. In my case, I've learned to do more with less shots (also less work!), but now take a LaCie rugged 1tb with me and put them there instead of the laptop. Makes it easier to download them to my desktop when I return home. They are not that expensive, just kinda large and an extra power supply to pack. I've also learned to pack a power strip as most hotels never have enough plugs!

Antonio Correia

Carmel for your contribution.

When travelling I never shoot that huge quantity of photos.

Usually I shoot about 1.500/2.000 photos with two cameras.

jww

Antonio Correia wrote: »

Carmel for your contribution.

When travelling I never shoot that huge quantity of photos.

Usually I shoot about 1.500/2.000 photos with two cameras.

Most don't, but wanted to hopefully avoid a late night discovery for someone reading this that might!

Best of luck on your travels!

Antonio Correia

jww wrote: »

Most don't, but wanted to hopefully avoid a late night discovery for someone reading this that might!

Best of luck on your travels!

:D

rpcrowe

Various CF cards
When my newest camera I was using was the 40D I never really noticed a great deal of difference between CF cards and used old ones right next to what were my newest 300X Lexar UDMA CF cards.

However, when I began shooting with a 7D, I noticed that the older slower cards were significantly slower in writing. The red camera light was on longer (of course, I could still shoot some because of the camera buffer).

The 300X UDMA cards were significantly faster when using them in my 7D. The light was on for approximately half the time that my older cards took. This was undoubtedly because the cards were faster (some of my older cards were 60x speed) and because the 7D produced larger file sizes and also is able to take advantage of the uDMA technology.

I like to carry a laptop comptter when traveling. Yes, it is fairly heavy but, my workflow is to download my images every evening and make a cursory inspection of the images to ensure that I have had no mechanical failures or any significant dust on my sensor. I can't view the images on my LCD and get that reasurance that all is well.

My notebook computer is fairly old and has a relatively small hard drive. To work around this, I carry a pair of small physical size but farly high capacity (500GB) external hard drives. I copy my images to both the hard drives in duplicate. When we travel, my wife carries one hard drive and I carry the other - just in case of problems. The two external hard drives were relatively inexpensive at about $USD 60 each. That is certainly less expensive than upgrading my notebook computer to a later model with a larger hard drive.

Antonio Correia

rpcrowe wrote: »

When my newest camera I was using was the 40D I never really noticed a great deal of difference between CF cards and used old ones right next to what were my newest 300X Lexar UDMA CF cards.

However, when I began shooting with a 7D, I noticed that the older slower cards were significantly slower in writing. The red camera light was on longer (of course, I could still shoot some because of the camera buffer).

The 300X UDMA cards were significantly faster when using them in my 7D. The light was on for approximately half the time that my older cards took. This was undoubtedly because the cards were faster (some of my older cards were 60x speed) and because the 7D produced larger file sizes and also is able to take advantage of the uDMA technology.

I like to carry a laptop comptter when traveling. Yes, it is fairly heavy but, my workflow is to download my images every evening and make a cursory inspection of the images to ensure that I have had no mechanical failures or any significant dust on my sensor. I can't view the images on my LCD and get that reasurance that all is well.

My notebook computer is fairly old and has a relatively small hard drive. To work around this, I carry a pair of small physical size but farly high capacity (500GB) external hard drives. I copy my images to both the hard drives in duplicate. When we travel, my wife carries one hard drive and I carry the other - just in case of problems. The two external hard drives were relatively inexpensive at about $USD 60 each. That is certainly less expensive than upgrading my notebook computer to a later model with a larger hard drive.

D