Oh man, I'm in a pickle.

iamtrout · Mar 10, 2006

Here's the situation: I'm driving to Rocky Mountain National Park tomorrow from Ohio, a 20 hour drive. I'm going to be taking LOTS of pictures because I'm a very serious amateur photog.

Currently I have compactflash cards of 4x2GB, 1x1GB, and a small portable photo hard drive of only 15GB free (doubles as my MP3 player). The total is 24GB, or 1800 pictures in RAW, which may not be enough.

1. My laptop is broken. Completely kaput.
2. I have a pocket PC, but I don't have the necessary hardware to make it into a USB Host so that I can attach external hard drives.
3. There is absolutely no way to swap out my photo bank's/mp3 player's hard drive for an empty one without a very rare laptop IDE Male/Female extension cable.
4. I'm leaving tomorrow, but I have GPS which allows me to find computer stores and navigate fairly easily.

EDIT: I'll be out in the field for 6-7 days.

I need a way to get more space on the run without spending too much money. I'm thinking portable DVD burner with CF card reading capabilities. Or try and find a place that sells the Laptop IDE Extension cable. Either way, it must be at a brick and mortar store

Options?

FoBoT · Mar 10, 2006

i think 1800 is enough

everman · Mar 10, 2006

Is there any good lossless compression you can use for raw files?

Atheus · Mar 10, 2006

Can't you just empty the mp3 player hd onto something else and use the rest of that?

If you really need the rare cable right now you could always make it...

QED · Mar 10, 2006

1800 pictures in RAW format isn't enough?

RAW format is so overrated anyway. Use your highest quality compression setting and you can double or triple that number of photos and you'd likely never notice the difference.

George P Burdell · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i think 1800 is enough

Best first reply of the day.

UpgradeFailure · Mar 10, 2006

How long will you be there? 1800 seems like enough to me....

I guess you could always use the 1gig card and not use RAW, to get a bunch of pics out of it in lesser format?

Kelvrick · Mar 10, 2006

Going to a local kinkos or whatever store and paying a few bucks to burn a cd or dvd ftw.

dartworth · Mar 10, 2006

How many days are you going for?

tfinch2 · Mar 10, 2006

1800 images is plenty. The post processing on that will take awhile...

iamtrout · Mar 10, 2006

RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing). After experiencing RAW, I can't go back to shooting JPEG.

I'll be there for 6-7 days. I may migrate to Arches, Mesa Verde, and Great Sand Dunes. 1800 shots is 300 shots a day, much too small for me.

I can't dump my 5 gigs of music on my photo storage because I'll go insane driving all that way with only the radio

As for making the cable, I thought about it, but the really hard part is PINS. The only pins available are on the hard drives themselves.

Kelvrick, that's a good idea.

drinkmorejava · Mar 10, 2006

let's think logically
20 hours = 72000second/1800 = 40 seconds = 1.5 pictues a minute. I think you'll be fine. Your problem is going to be running out of batteries.

UpgradeFailure · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: iamtrout

I'll be there for 6-7 days. I may migrate to Arches, Mesa Verde, and Great Sand Dunes. 1800 shots is 300 shots a day, much too small for me.

I concur on that. When taking a trip with great photo ops, 300 pics isn't really anything. I think your best bet is burning CDs like Kelvrick said. Walmart's little machine might do it too.

iamtrout · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
let's think logically
20 hours = 72000second/1800 = 40 seconds = 1.5 pictues a minute. I think you'll be fine. Your problem is going to be running out of batteries.

Ermm... the DRIVE is 20 hours.

I'm staying there for 6-7 days.

Fullmetal Chocobo · Mar 10, 2006

If you are a serious amateur photographer, get a laptop & external hd. Or just the hd if you have a laptop.

dartworth · Mar 10, 2006

You need an iPod and one of these Apple iPod Camera Connectors

One of the reasons why I picked up a D50...my Dell 700m has a SD port:thumbsup:

imported_Mike · Mar 10, 2006

Pick up the epson P2000?

tfinch2 · Mar 10, 2006

http://www.addonics.com/products/mfr/aemfr842d.asp

QED · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing).

Ummm... no there's not. Unless your camera is really sucky-- in which case it would be a waste to use it at all for anything anyways.

But whatever floats your boat. If you enjoy spending hours and hours of CPU time processing images just so they can look as good as they could've using JPEG at your highest quality settings than more power to you.

SportSC4 · Mar 10, 2006

do you have any data you need in your broken notebook? buy a 2.5" ide notebook case and slap the notebook drive in there

tfinch2 · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing).

Click to expand...

Ummm... no there's not. Unless your camera is really sucky-- in which case it would be a waste to use it at all for anything anyways.

But whatever floats your boat. If you enjoy spending hours and hours of CPU time processing images just so they can look as good as they could've using JPEG at your highest quality settings than more power to you.

Raw Advantages:

Exposure compensation
Flexible white balance
High bit depth
Better sharpening

Unmoosical · Mar 10, 2006

You know it's late when you see the title of this thread and you think, "how can a person be in a pickle?"

OdiN · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: iamtrout
RAW is definitely not overrated. There are many many many things that RAW can do that JPEG can't even begin to touch (think post-processing). After experiencing RAW, I can't go back to shooting JPEG.

I'll be there for 6-7 days. I may migrate to Arches, Mesa Verde, and Great Sand Dunes. 1800 shots is 300 shots a day, much too small for me.

I can't dump my 5 gigs of music on my photo storage because I'll go insane driving all that way with only the radio

As for making the cable, I thought about it, but the really hard part is PINS. The only pins available are on the hard drives themselves.

Kelvrick, that's a good idea.

I agree with the RAW for sure....I can't live without it.

When I was in RMNP in June I was only able to be in the park, seriously taking photos for 3 days. I went with friends, so I wasn't always out doing photos (though I would have liked to be). I shot for a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening for 2 days, and only the morning on the 3rd day (leaving) and only a few mid-day shots - otherwise I was in Estes or Grand Lake having other kinds of fun w/ friends.

I took 1,047 photos in that amount of time.

imported_Mike · Mar 10, 2006

Originally posted by: Unmoosical
You know it's late when you see the title of this thread and you think, "how can a person be in a pickle?"

lmao

OdiN · Mar 10, 2006

Also - I have 14GB of CF cards (5 2GB and a 4GB) and I fill those up pretty much completely in one day doing a wedding.

I have a 40GB laptop HD that copies photos - I plug a CF reader into the port and push a button and it transfers.

Oh and iamtrout - YHPM

Oh man, I'm in a pickle.

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