jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Let us know how that PhotoSafe holds up over time. I thought about getting one, but the reviews on Amazon weren't very good 8 good and 8 bad.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Some good ideas here. You could also take a Eye-Fi card with you and use that when shooting. Shoot raw and jpg. When you get back to your hotel, just turn on your camera and iPad and sync only the jpgs to your iPad. Then choose any method above to transfer your raw to another storage source and then format the Eye-Fi card in your camera for the next day. Now you have small jpg images on your iPad to use for your blog and the raw images stored somewhere else.

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

:thumbup: I also have the Picture Porter 35 and have used it on two vacation trips. Let's me leave the laptop or other external devices at home. The Porter 35 allows picture viewing and has a sort (file) capability. Also stores video.

dusty3d Loc: South Florida

I have a small portable Ext. HD "Simpletech". They are inexpensive and easy to use. And have a few memory cards on hand. I can transfer them to my mini HD in the car or wherever, you don't need internet to to that.

Weddingguy Loc: British Columbia - Canada

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SquashFan

I've used the earlier version of the Sanho HyperDrive Colorspace (http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive/UDMA-2/) for some years and have found it an excellent way to backup photos. It can read SD and CF cards, and has its own battery so you can do the backup without needing anything else.

Personally I would't re-use a memory card until I had safely copied all the photos onto at least two other storage mediums. I would always travel with a MacBook pro, plus an external drive for that, allowing me with the Colorspace to have three copies of everything. May sound paranoid, but I've had cards that suddenly became unreadable, and drives that suddenly died. If you have travelled thousands of miles, and spent huge sums on the trip why take the risk of losing irreplaceable photos.

Today SD cards are so cheap that you could consider having enough to be able to just keep them untouched till you get home, but I wouldn't feel comfortable until I had at the very least copied the images off them.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I would take a deep second look at this, Wi-Fi might be almost all the camp grounds. But I have found unless you want to stay up all night, it is for the most part slower then tar on a hot tin roof. Just Buy a bunch of SD Cards, I mean how heavy can they be. I am in Quartzsite Az, have what they call High Speed DSL. to down load 92 Meg takes from 2 hrs to 12 Hrs. and thats not a wi-fi. On the parks wi-fi, there aren't enough days left on my lease. Very few places have good wi-fi.

I was in a Terribles RV park that advertised High Speed Wi-Fi. in Nevada. After spending 1/2 hr trying to get on me email. I decided to go the office. Turns out. There High Speed internet was a dial up modem on a wireless router. I think the connect speed was 2 kb.

Zaruka Loc: Illinois

I travel to rural China and North Korea every year. I have to have a foolproof system of getting my photos out in areas where there is often no electricity and a government that wants to examine and delete my photos. My solution is extreme but it always works.
I bring about 150Gb of cards generally 16Gb cards. After about 4 hours of shooting I back up the card to the computer drive (lunch or on the bus.) During the evening hours I back up the daily content to a remote drive so I have the original SD card, a copy on the laptop and a copy on a remote drive. If I have bandwidth in rural China I will back up to the cloud but I usually cannot get enough pushed up overnight. That often fails.
I encrypt one copy just in case and the SD cards are often hidden with one 16Gb card held as a "best of" for the border guards. They often will delete to be able to say that they have done their job. If I were to lose some photos to the guards I have a recovery software.
There are some other methods that I will not relate to get photos out of sensitive areas of the world but my strategy is to copy several times on several devices. Remember - cards and devices fail. Redundancy is the way to go.

Digital_Dave Loc: NH "Live Free Or Die"

I use a Picture Porter 35, 3.5" Digital Photo Manager from Digital Foci. I have the 500 GB model and use it frequently.
It copies photos directly from the digital camera memory cards.

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

Exactly! cards are easy, lightweight, and getting cheaper it seems, monthly.

TexasBadger Loc: Wylie, TX

I use a HyperDrive ColorSpace. Small, portable and cost effective.

Chuck_893 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

I hear ya! :D I've been plenty of places where it depended on the time of day and how many people were on. Sometimes you can't get on at all. It's an experiment, and if the plan doesn't work I will happily fall back on (probably) using 16 or 32 GB flash drive(s). I don't take what I think is an awful lot of pictures on a trip—typically I'd guess around 2,000 exposures or so, around a "roll" a day to upload or otherwise back up. The main reason I thought of it was that stuff can get stolen, but (theoretically) if the files are in the "cloud" they are recoverable, and I hate the thought of losing a whole trip if I could have saved it. It may not work, but if it doesn't I have fallbacks. Thanks! :D :D :thumbup:

philo Loc: philo, ca

I'm in the same boat. I'm going on a three week trip and I will take my laptop with an extra battery, because I may not be able to charge it every day. I'm taking enough cf cards to cover 5k shots.
also i'm taking a passbook so I can down load as I go along. i plan on keeping all of my images on the cf cards until I get home. i want to see what I'm getting on a daily bases, but not planning on doing any editing until I get back.
i leave in thirty days.

photogdm

I faced the same question a couple of years back on a trip to Alaska. If I took my laptop, I'd have to carry it on the plane. Too much weight to put it in a suitcase, and I'd lose it if the airlines misdirected my luggage. My solution: a small, lightweight ASUS netbook I got cheap on eBay and a couple of thumb drives for extra backup. Worked out great. Put it in my carry-on, a modest backpack. About like taking a hardback book. SOP on all trips since then.

bob44044 Loc: Ohio

Use only SD cards. Cheap and easy to carry. Don't waste your time on anything else.