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An image tank (portable harddrive with its own battery and card reader) sounds like the solution here. Some come with a screen that allows you to preview the images too, others just dump the flash card to the drive.
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If you'd like to have a cheaper alternative, get an external HDD, and go to a local internet cafe and backup your images every day.
Otherwise like Lianna said, portable harddrive with card reader is the way to go.
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My aunt has a 40d as well and she uses something similar to this.
www.amazon.com/Wolverine-7120-FlashPac-Portable-Pictures/...
Plug in your CF card and it backs up your photos.
I have a 450d that uses sd cards and I am looking to find something that can backup my photos for my trip to Spain this June.
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On a 6 week overseas vacation in 2006.
It was two similar image tanks [ Vosonic ] (one that we could view the pics on) , each with its own battery charger.
On the days we were actually sightseeng the data was duplicated to each drive of an evening before clearing the cards.
On flights my wife carried one in her carry-on bag and I carried the other one in mine.
On a 5 week vacation to the USA latter this year I am planning on taking about 40GB of cards in three card safes. Save the problems of carrying power supplies and cord etcs.
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On my past few trips, I've used my Vosonic to transfer pictures to it's 100gig hard drive. The neat thing about it is that it uses a laptop hard drive so I could hypothetically upgrade it myself. It also plays mp3s and video. The best thing is the built in card reader and that I can view photos on the decent sized screen it comes with (including raw format).
It's supposed to be similar to the wolverine products. Built on the same basis or whatever to my understanding. And it does look similar to this one on amazon.
Before my Vosonic, I had an archos with similar functions, but it had a card reader adapter you had to keep up with and much less space. When it came time to upgrade, none of the Archos products I was interested in had the storage space of my vosonic.
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I use a Vosonic too, though not the all-singing, all-dancing version that Marksda1 uses, just a basic 80GB jobby (which can easily be upgraded by swapping for a higher capacity 2.5" laptop HDD too).
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Its slow and buggy, but if you already have an ipod you can get an adapter for $30 that will allow you to transfer your pictures straight from your camera to a compatible ipod. If I used it any more than the once a year on vacation or so I'd get a dedicated device, but for the little I use it I'll put up with the issues it has. It works well enough to give me piece of mind that if a CD card dies, I'll have a backup.
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Epson storage drive worked well for me along with card readers and plenty of cards. Spent some time working on project in South Africa and was never worried. My partner and I shot over 15 gigs. Backed up every night to Epson and saved the cards. We also , when possible loaded some up to computers whenever they were available/ working and sent them home.
The drive has a decent sized screen that allowed us to view.
Cheers
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Lots of small-ish capacity cards and big pockets....
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I think something like the vosonic may be the for me to go. I've read to many stories about ipods going dead before the data is transfered and then having to start all over so I'm ruling that out. And a bunch of CF cards still give me know backup. For the number of times I need this an inexpensive drive should work. If it has a screen so much the better. though I doubt the drive will be able to display 40d Raw files.
Ray
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www.hyperdrive.com/
I have one of these - transfers quickly and has been reliable. Works as a standalone drive for CF, SD and other card types, and as an external drive attached to a computer.
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Lots of CF cards. I believe I had just enough for my last trip:
2 x 4GB
5 x 2GB
1 x 1GB
I had my laptop with me as well, so I backed up to it, as well as to my iPod, as data via my laptop.
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cheap notebooks are $500 so cheaper than high end photo storage device. Internet cafe is a good alternative.
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I am incapable of not bringing a laptop with me, so when I go long-term travelling I intend on periodically burning off 2 DVDs, keeping one in a different place to the laptop and mailing the other home.
The laptop will probably be a 700 gram Toshiba Portegé since Apples are a bit too heavy.
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If you are staying in hotels with Internet access I would bring along a laptop and backup your photos online.
Also - maybe I am misreading your post but I would probably fill up a 2gb card in one day of shooting- maybe you should bring more? They are so cheap these days.
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OP said he didn't want to bring a laptop. He is bringing more than one cf card. While it's true that cf cards are cheap I think he's more concerned with a backup of some sort. I wouldl either invest in many cf cards or a portable back up system. Either can be used over and over so I think it's a matter of choice.
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I would definitely bring more (many more) than one 2gb CF card. I would definitely not rely on CF cards alone as your only means of storing your images. Low end computers may be nearly as cheap as high end standalone storage devices but low end computers are 1) often not the best choice for processing images 2) considerably larger and heavier than standalone storage devices.
Buying a laptop for storage alone doesn't make much sense to me - if you're going to bring a laptop I would think you would want one with enough horsepower to do any post-processing your images may require. Smaller lighter laptops tend to be more expensive and less capable.
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I have the Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite 40 to back up the images on my CF cards ($259.95, on sale at Adorama at the time). Nice little portable device. Holds all kinds of file formats (including .txt files if needed), plays MP3s, has a primitive radio, and a color screen that's reasonably decent. Great for travel.
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I plan on bringing 1 2gb card for every 1-2 days of shooting. Re: the laptop. I have 15" Macbook Pro and that's a little overkill for this type of trip. I big part of the trip is a friends post wedding party. My Main concern is duplicating the data from the cards. data loss is what I'm trying to prevent. On the bright side I don't have ask for hand inspection of my film anymore ;)
Ray
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Yeah, in the film days, there wasn't really a way to back up the film. If an X-ray machine killed it, the pictures were dead.
This is one of the advantages of digital cameras -- you actually have easy (though expensive) options to back up photos almost instantly.
However, I don't use anything like this because I've rarely had a CF card fail (only once, and it was a really cheap one -- I should have known better).
I travel occasionally, by land and by air, and take hundreds of photos in various states. All of my photos have always made it back home with me.
The first time I went into Manhattan with my camera, I used my wife's (then she was my fiancée) laptop to back up the photos, but it wasn't necessary.
I couldn't see myself spending $300 or more for a portable media storage unit, unless it was really a once-in-a-lifetime trip AND if my photos were going to be masterpieces.
If I do take something spectacular on one of these trips, I'll just upload the original to Flickr and mark it "private" until I get home to format it.
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I've been using the Epson P2000 for a few years now, originally got it almost 3 years back when CF cards were expensive (around $400Aud for a reasonably fast 1 GB card), as such it cost less than 2x1 GB Extreme II cards.
Travelled with 3 1GB cards, 1 in my D60 1 in my 20D and the second one spare, as soon as I filled up one card I'd copy it to the Epson and then have that card ready to put in which ever body next filled up it's card. Each night I'd dump the Epson to the laptop. As such I travelled with 2 copies one on the Epson and one on the laptop, only issue was if the epson died or got stolen between shooting and copying to my laptop (fortunately neither happened.
now with 8GB San Disk Extreme II being less than $100Aud I mostly travel sans laptop with between 16 and 36GB's of CF's (mixture of "old" 2GB, not so old 4GB and brand new 8GB's), fill the card, dump it to the Epson and put the card, still with the images on it, in to a second card wallet never to be used again during that trip. That way the data is backed up (2 copies 1 on the original cards and 1 on the epson and the only time there's only one copy is between starting shooting with a card and the Epson finishing its copying). Only problem here is that the battery in the Epson now only just makes it through a 4GB card with about a quarter battery life level showing, haven't needed to dump a full 8Gb card to it yet so I don't know if it would make it through. But I do have to carry a spare, charged battery for a weekender and pack the charger for the Epson when I take it away for more than a weekend.
The 32GB capacity is starting to get a little strained as now days I generally shoot in RAW+JPG with the 20D and 40D and their files sizes are some what larger than the RAW only I was shooting with the D60.
I'll probably look at one of the newer larger capacity Epsons soon as I've been exceptionally happy with this earlier model.
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"though I doubt the drive will be able to display 40d Raw files."
I can't speak specifically to a 40D, but the Vosonic displays my 20D raw files. Similar wolverine drives probably do the same.
And the specifications suggest it would work for the 40D, too.
It wasn't a requirement for me either, just a happy circumstance. I will say the white balance/color or something on the raw files view on the vosonic isn't always true to the actual image when I see it on my laptop - just gives me a warm fuzzy my photos bits and bytes made it onto the drive. ;-)
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When I travel these days I just take multiple CF cards. They are so cheap and so small there is really no reason not to. They also do not require power, batteries, charges etc. If you get a name brand CF card the likelihood of it failing is very small, I would worry more about a hard drive crashing and losing everything than a CF card failing.
For me the sweet spot these days is 2GB cards for $25-$30 there is no reason not to have a bunch.
The other advice is to really pay attention to what you are shooting, and don't be afraid to hit the delete button.
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Can someone tell me if the only difference between these 2 items is the cheap plastic CF Case? Also how fast is the data rate on the 40 is 10MB a second fast enough? I;ve seen no delay with the camera but curious.
www.amazon.com/SanDisk-ULTRA-CompactFlash-Card-SDCFH-2048...
www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Compact-SDCFH-2048-Static-Pack/dp/...
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@rcrev
I would not trust the cheaper one, a few years back there was quite the buzz around the net with people selling fake CF cards my guess is that is one. The real Sandisk cards are quite nice and it what I use however.
Check out this link
reviews.ebay.com/Beware-of-FAKE-SanDisk-Compact-Flash-Car...
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When traveling to Guatemala, I've done a couple of things.
First, it's pretty easy to find a place that will burn CD's from your cards. With jpgs that works pretty well since it's easy in the shop to see if the CD is good before leaving the shop.
But the thing I like better is to take a small portable hard drive, e.g. Western Digital Passport drive, and a card reader. Then I can go into any internet cafe, plug them into a computer and transfer the files to the hard drive as needed.
Also, Faststone has an image viewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm) that can be run without installation. Just copy the file to the hard drive, and the image viewer can be run on any computer. This makes it easy to preview and sort through your images.
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