What do you use when traveling?
Dec 15, 2018 09:41:46 #
BarbB wrote:
Curious to know what travel device do you use, to ... (show quote)
Vacations are for fun however when we go, its usually for weeks at a time and and usually about 3 times a year.....but always take a lot of photos. I always travel with a very light ASUS 13" laptop (I-7 processor), personally despise tablets (Apple, Samsung, etc) since they're really not computers and besides, my wife carries her Samsung Tablet. I take numerous memory cards SD I & II only, no CF cards, and usually PP in the evening and only if nothing else is going on. Going on a 3-week cruise of Asia early next year, taking nothing more than the items I listed previously...camera, 2 lenses, a laptop and numerous cards. Although I might consider a Passport external drive if for some reason I need to store or backup photos on another device. Always travel as light as possible and take ONLY the electronics you need...unless work requires it....Good Luck
Dec 15, 2018 09:48:44 #
BarbB wrote:
Your work flow sounds exactly as I envision mine to be ( it’s what I did when traveling with my now defunct laptop and external drive).. question.. when the images come back into LR classic, can you designate them to be ordered by “date shot”.. for me that helps with organizing long trips.. and how many gigs is on your iPad to store the files.. thx!
My ipad capacity is 256 gigs.
They physically place themselves in subfolders by date within a folder that I designated to receive them. That designated folder is on the same external drive where photos go that are downloaded directly to my computer while I'm home. Catalog-wise, they fold themselves into my regular LRClassic catalog so that they are sequential with everything else. And of course are subject to keywording and collections like everything else. I have not tried adding keywords while traveling but have read that keywording, like edits, will move back to your regular catalog when you bring them home.
The biggest difference to me from what I used to do with the laptop (and it is so nice not to have to drag that beast around) is the magic with Adobe Cloud, where the transition of the raw files, along with edits, happens more or less on its own. I start LR on my desktop, open LR on the ipad and go do something else, letting the two of them sort it out.
Dec 15, 2018 10:08:39 #
Dec 15, 2018 10:15:03 #
BarbB wrote:
Curious to know what travel device do you use, to ... (show quote)
I usually keep the unexposed film in a large gallon baggie and the exposed film in another gallon baggie.
I try and travel light, one camera, one lens and a bag of film. (and a handful of lens wipes.)
Dec 15, 2018 10:33:28 #
traderjohn wrote:
My vacations are different. I do not schlep a bunch of stuff around with me nor do I spend time editing pictures at night. I go on vacation to have fun see and do different things. I have a D610 I take a lens. I cannot imagine taking 8,000 pictures on.....vacation.
But perhaps some of us go on very specific photography tours and it's not really a vacation at all and we know that. I have never taken 8000 photos as I try not to take any more than I want to go through on return but have often taken thousands of images. I don't go on "vacation," I go on photo trips.
Dec 15, 2018 11:08:13 #
Lucius
Loc: Denver, Colorado
I have a Dell latitude with 1TB solid state hard drive and a 14" screen. It is the same size as my I pad pro (Little thicker). I put a 256 solid state flash drive in and down load my pictures to this. Saving room on my computer.
When I get home I can put the pictures where ever I want
When I get home I can put the pictures where ever I want
Dec 15, 2018 11:22:59 #
BarbB wrote:
Curious to know what travel device do you use, to ... (show quote)
Barb, I just keep all the pics on memory cards and take enough of them. That's pretty easy these days.
I NEVER edit while traveling. It would be a WASTE of vacation time!!!
SS
Dec 15, 2018 11:32:53 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
BarbB wrote:
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I had the same issues you have. I also use 27" iMacs at home and LR Classic and PS for editing. I too also tried taking a laptop when traveling and quickly discarded that because of the weight. I now only use extra SD and CF flash memory cards. I set my D800 to use the CF as the primary and SD as the backup. It cuts the weight way down and has proven to be very reliable. The only downside is that I can't edit during the trips, but I find that I have little time to do that anyhow.
Dec 15, 2018 12:05:46 #
Imho if you are taking 8000 pictures on a vacation you are spending too much tie behind the camera and not stopping to smell the roses.Enjoy what you paid all that money to see and take less pictures
Dec 15, 2018 12:06:56 #
fishgroder wrote:
Imho if you are taking 8000 pictures on a vacation you are spending too much tie behind the camera and not stopping to smell the roses.Enjoy what you paid all that money to see and take less pictures
👍👍👍
Dec 15, 2018 12:19:21 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
BarbB wrote:
I shoot RAW.. one of the other members sent a link to a B&H video that demonstrates how LR CC will connect and download thru the cloud to LR Classic, and store small files on the iPad ...that might be my solution.. thanks!.. your response was right along the same line...
So glad to see this camera again. I owned an Audio Visual company and in the 80's we had a number of these F3's. With a Nikon 35mm lens.
They were so reliable. We shot everything with this rig. I loved the camera but eventually traded up to buy other cameras. Some shows had
12 slide projectors and we had hundreds of slides. To me this camera was so much better then these over complicated cameras today.
I would set it up. Maybe aperture a 1/2 or 1 stop darker and just shoot. Or match the needle (?) is I remember right. We shot corporate
people candids all over the US. Never used a flash all natural light. Thanks for the post.
Dec 15, 2018 12:29:49 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
fishgroder wrote:
Imho if you are taking 8000 pictures on a vacation you are spending too much tie behind the camera and not stopping to smell the roses.Enjoy what you paid all that money to see and take less pictures
That depends on how long his vacations are. If he is gone for a month or more, that is a reasonable number.
Dec 15, 2018 13:52:46 #
TomV
Loc: Annapolis, Maryland
Those who do not understand how you can take 1000-2000 shots a day obviously do not shoot birds!
Dec 15, 2018 14:26:18 #
I have a 17" laptop I take with me when traveling. Each evening I download from the computer chips to the laptop, do the same with the GPS log data and merge them (puts coordinates into the photo EXIFs). When I get home I copy the laptop contents to my desktop computer and subsequently post-process (Lightroom) and upload selected ones to Flickr.
The laptop has an SD card reader built in and I transfer the camera photos using that method into a new folder for each day of the trip. The photos remain organized by "day" until after I have done the PP on them--final organization takes place when I upload them to Flickr. The GPS information (and ID photos) greatly assist in grouping photos meaningfully.
The laptop has an SD card reader built in and I transfer the camera photos using that method into a new folder for each day of the trip. The photos remain organized by "day" until after I have done the PP on them--final organization takes place when I upload them to Flickr. The GPS information (and ID photos) greatly assist in grouping photos meaningfully.
Dec 15, 2018 15:01:12 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
BarbB wrote:
Curious to know what travel device do you use, to ... (show quote)
I take lot of chips for storage. I can download to my S9+ and modify there or modify in camera to see any potential. I then transfer the original RAW/JPEG once I get home. Chips are relatively cheap and can serve as a backup even after transfer. Then one can go a buy the newer and even faster chips to put more photos on.
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