Alrighty. For a nearly two week trip during which I'll be taking many digital photos in RAW format (which = lots of space), will a portable photo storage device be sufficient? Should I bring my laptop just in case?
2007-03-16 10:51:43 · 2 answers · asked by Proportions of Man 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Personally, my portable photo storage device has a bigger hard drive than my laptop.
Lets try and calculate your storage need. Say each RAW file is about 15MB and you take 100 to 200 photos/day...you would need up to 3GB/day x 14 days = 42GB (and I would double this for an additional safety factor). So a portable storage device with a 80GB hard drive should be sufficient (adjust as needed for how many photos/day you think you'll be shooting).
If you can, you should also bring the laptop - it'd be nice to be able to view the photos to be sure that they've been successfully transferred (& not corrupted) to the portable photo storage device.
2007-03-16 12:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by Chuckie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a big thing to haul around just for some picture storage. How about a USB stick adapter that accepts your memory card? You could go into an internet cafe, plug it in, ZIP them up, and e-mail everything back home. You could check your e-mail to make sure it got there. I'd send it to someone with an account at another ISP, too, just to make sure that my local server crash -- you know it WILL happen with YOUR photos, right? -- doesn't wipe them out.
RAW format is so huge that it could easily run over your laptop disk, anyway -- close to 20 MB for a 6Mpixel shot, right? That's only 50 per GB, so you'll be e-mailing them or burning disks all the time with a laptop, unless you ZIP them there, too.
2007-03-16 19:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by sd_ducksoup 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋