When traveling I take the laptop anyhow. It's useful for checking
email, reading the news, checking the weather where I'm headed, making
hotel reservations and numerous other things... such as viewing your
images in reasonable size. I wouldn't be without it now. But if I have
enough CF card capacity I wouldn't format the CF cards even though I
copied them to the laptop. CF cards are very reliable but that doesn't
eliminate the need for at least one backup. But I make two.
As for film as archival material... well, I will never forget the
initial session with the photographer who shot my daughter's wedding.
We hadn't been in his office more than a few minutes when he had to take
an urgent phone call from his film processor. This was a guy he had
been doing business with for 20 years. There had been a major fire in
the shop and some orders from other photographers had been completely
destroyed. As it turned out, our guy was lucky as he'd only lost part
of one roll. These were all wedding shots. I can't imagine what
happened with those other guys.
I'll stick with my multiple digital images.
Chuck Norcutt
WayneS wrote:
> In my mind, the CF is the most reliable storage I have. Why risk transferring
> to a laptop that I then have to protect from theft, or another storage device
> where
> all my eggs are in one basket, and the risk of a transfer goof up.
>
> When I travel, I just keep everything on the flash cards. Sometimes I bring
> the laptop so I can review them later, but they still stay on the cards unless
> I need the space. CF is cheap these days. I have 2x12G 2x8G 3x4G = 44GB
> =~ 3000 Raw pictures on a 5D.
>
> If I shoot 200-300 shots a day, that is a good day. But usually there is
> some fine food and wine, snorkeling, kayaking, diving, or even marital
> activities. Traveling without the laptop is a lot more fun.
>
> I remember I went through the storage requirements a couple of years
> ago when I was anticipating a Norton workshop. I came to the conclusion
> then that my money was better spent on more CF and spare batteries
> than any other storage device. Hopefully the CF enabled cameras will
> still be allowed, but BYOB (that's batteries, not beer).
>
> BTW, has Olympus improved on their raw storage file size with the E-3?
>
> Wayne
>
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