Need a picture storage idea for my SD600.

[Cattlegod]

Here is the deal. I am going to jamaica in 3 weeks and I will be bringing my camera. Currently I have a 2gb card and I don't think that will be near enough storage. I would like to have at least 10gb or so and don't want to spend a ton of money on a bunch of flash drives. I also don't want to bring my laptop and have a chance of it being stolen.

Does anyone have any other idea (maybe some type of portable drive that will DL all the contents of a SD card?

 

[Imported]

Something like this?

I like this one more, but it's also about 3x the price.

BTW, I've never tried either.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Imported
Something like this?

exactly like that, or any ideas really. That one is kinda high on the price range though, looking for cheaper alternatives.

 

[FoBoT]

i think SD cards are going to be the best bang/buck without large danger of theft

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i think SD cards are going to be the best bang/buck without large danger of theft

*ding* Winnar. 1GB cards are $20 on Newegg. Spend $100 and you've got 5GB.

I doubt you'll go over 7GB in a week. 5.0MP images are about....3MB each, IIRC.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i think SD cards are going to be the best bang/buck without large danger of theft

*ding* Winnar. 1GB cards are $20 on Newegg. Spend $100 and you've got 5GB.

I doubt you'll go over 7GB in a week. 5.0MP images are about....3MB each, IIRC.

3 Weeks.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i think SD cards are going to be the best bang/buck without large danger of theft

*ding* Winnar. 1GB cards are $20 on Newegg. Spend $100 and you've got 5GB.

I doubt you'll go over 7GB in a week. 5.0MP images are about....3MB each, IIRC.

i just picked up a 2gb kingston card from amazon for 21.99 shipped (prime member) get 5 of those

 

[randomlinh]

do you really need to shoot 5MP in full? heh... I'd say you can drop back a bit and grab a few cards and be done with it.

I don't like the portable HDD's to be honest. I'd be too afraid of corrupted data... which I would end up bringing a laptop anyway.. haha

 

[Scarpozzi]

Scale back the res on your camera. The most you'll need is 2-3 mega pixels. If each picture is only 1MB each, you should have plenty of space. No need in taking too many pics....you won't enjoy anything. Honestly, I took my 3.2MP camera with a 1GB card and it lasted me 2 weeks easy. If you think you need more space, those cards are only $20-30 now online. Order one from the egg to take along. It's cheaper than any other solutions.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
do you really need to shoot 5MP in full? heh... I'd say you can drop back a bit and grab a few cards and be done with it.

I don't like the portable HDD's to be honest. I'd be too afraid of corrupted data... which I would end up bringing a laptop anyway.. haha

Call me paranoid, but when we go on vacation we put copies on at least one laptop + one external hard drive + leave as many pictures as possible on the cards.

 

[vi edit]

If you drop back the size of the images a notch you can get like 400 pics per gig.

If you have a couple 2 gig cards that's like 1600 pictures. That is A LOT of shots.

 

[Indolent]

The place I went last spring had internet access. You could upload the pictures to an ftp. I never used it though so I can't say if it was very fast or not.


I really don't see anything being cheaper than just buying a bunch of 1gb or 2gb cards though.

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: mugs

Call me paranoid, but when we go on vacation we put copies on at least one laptop + one external hard drive + leave as many pictures as possible on the cards.

you said it.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Any hard drive based backup device will include a laptop HDD and an enclosure that allows transfer of data from memory cards. The laptop HDD may cost $60 for a 40GB, and the enclosure can cost $60+, for a total of $120+.

It's your call.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822173001

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t13362.html

I for one cannot go without one. I used to use my little Archos Gmini 220 MP3 player to back up photos, but it is slow. I then used a special HDD enclosure that I got from newegg, but that one really stinks because it doesn't display any status indicators. I had to have faith in it that my pictures had even been transferred. I plan to get something with a screen next, perhaps something like the Hyperdrive HD-80 or something else in that luminous landscape link above.

 

[Cattlegod]

thanks for the info guys. i plan on taking vids with the camera too, those eat up some space. I may look into photodisks a bit more.