I'm aware of those. Used to use one a few years ago until the CF card
capacity got large enough to do a whole day's shooting. I don't think
I've yet gone over 5GB for a days shooting even with 5D raw files.
Three 2GB cards is sufficient and I have another 1-1/2 GB in reserve.
Chuck Norcutt
tOM Trottier wrote:
> There are small batteried standalone media storage "books" with a hard disk
> and card slots, eg,
> http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1159267429.html
>
> Merry Christmas, tOM
>
> On Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 12:12,
> Chuck Norcutt <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
>
>>You're right. I wasn't thinking. Yes, the images should be backed up
>>on additional media.
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>jjohnso4@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Can you expound on how you intend to use the 4gb USB flash drive as
>>>>backup storage in the field? I don't know how you'd use it. AFAIK you
>>>>can't download directly to it from the camera. You'd need a laptop as
>>>>an intermediary. But if you have the laptop I don't see the utility of
>>>>an additional small amount of storage. What am I missing? Is your
>>>>laptop drive small and nearly full?
>>>
>>>Hi Chuck,
>>>
>>>What is it that you don't understand about "backup"? I'm just kidding you
>>>but - I travel with a laptop with plenty of available storage but I sure
>>>want to backup the images stored on it until I get home and transfer them to
>>>the desktop machine. So, every night, I copy the day's shots to CDs. On
>>>the Southwest trip this past spring I filled 14-15 CDs. Several USB flash
>>>drives might be more convienient.
>>>
>>>Or, are you suggesting that one should buy extra media cards for the camera
>>>instead and not erase those until the end of the trip and just use the
>>>laptop for backup, not primary storage?
>>>
>>>Later,
>>>Johnny
>
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