Mempry Storage For Long Trips

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Submitted By: davetv13

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Mempry Storage For Long Trips

Posted: January 4, 2007 - 8:13pm

I have the oppertunity in July to go to Baltimore to attend the Firehouse Fire-Rescue Expo and Parade. It ends with one of the most impressive fire parades you have ever seen (you should go there one year just for the parade). By the way its July 29th this year at 9am going through the inner harbor area of Baltimore.

My question is this I have a 5MP digital camera with 3GB of memory for the camera. I don't believe that 3GB (1250 images at the highest jpeg resolution which is how I nomorally shoot) is going to be enough to last me through my entire 5 day trip. I currently do not own a laptop or any portable storage devices except a 1GB jump drive. What would you suggest I invest in/do to slove my storage issues for this once in a life time trip. I know that for the most part 3GB has always been more than eniough memory for day to day shooting....... but fear it just won;t be enough for the entire week.

Thanks to anyone who offers e any suggestions

dave

Submitted By: Larry Berman

Location: Pittsburgh

Joined: Mar 7 2005

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Re: Mempry Storage For Long Trips

Posted: January 4, 2007 - 10:18pm

The easy answer is to purchase a few 2 gig cards. 2 gig cards are around $59 which is much less expensive than spending many hundreds on a storage device. The next easy answer is to find a camera or computer store that can burn a few DVDs for you each day. Make sure to carry the blank DVDs and a card reader.

I would never travel without a way of backing up my images.

Submitted By: davetv13

Joined: Nov 27 2005

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Re: Mempry Storage For Long Trips

Posted: January 6, 2007 - 9:29am

Thanks for the infomation. At the end of any day I shoot here I generally download the images to my netgear storage device with 2x 300GB hard drives and also to a DVD. This is gonna be the first time I have traveled away from home for a week. I like your idea of getting a camera store to download the pictures to CD or DVD each day. I fact I know that their is a sam clubs about 3 miles from my hotel.... I would have never thought of doing that. I am also gonna to start pricing 2GB xD cards next week and get one or maybe 2 so that I know I can keep all my images on them as well as the DVDs till I get home and make sure the DVDs work.

Thanks again for your time.

dave