eagle80 Loc: Kutztown, PA

Looking for a unit to download images from a SD card while on vacation. I do not want to use a computer.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

I’d think that would be a tough one. I just carry additional SD cards. You’d need some kind of powered device.

Maybe you could use the camera cord to download to some kind of thumb drive, but I’d expect it to be slow and power hungry.

Curious as to what ideas come up.

Andy

eagle80 Loc: Kutztown, PA

There is a WD My Passport that has a SD slot. I was wondering if there was anything else.

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

If you have an iPad, you should be able to download them via a USB cable. You will need to get a iPad to USB cable, which I believe Apple calls a camera cable.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

I use a card reader that uploads the pictures to my iPad and then directly into Photos, where they are uploaded to the cloud. Easy peasy....

Brokenland

I'd prefer using the Sandisk Extreme Portable Drive:

https://www.sandisk.com/home/ssd/extreme-portable-ssd

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

to view?
to save?
only have one card?

eagle80 Loc: Kutztown, PA

Do you insert the SD card in the unit or does it use a cable between the camera and the unit?

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Two choices:

LaCie DJI BOSS with built in SD slot (my workhorse)
Western Digital My Passport Pro (buggy interface)

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

WTH is a buggy interface???

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

I found the WD software virtually unusable. If you backup manually, the drive itself is fine.

Andy

Vietnam Vet

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

Last year, I was in Europe for a month without a laptop and used 2 different backup devices. Mainly to test both out for an extended time but also as a double backup done each night.

One was the WD MyPro wireless and the other a RavPower Filehub wireless travel router. The first was expensive and the second under $50. Both worked seamlessly and well making individual file folders to download into. The MyPro has it's own HDD and it's file system downloads by date, so any files already downloaded do not get duplicated. The RavPower had a portable HDD attached via 3.0 USB cable and downloaded the SD card into a new file, regardless of date, so there were some duplicates from the previous day's shooting if I used the same card the next day.

It took about the same amount of time to download a card and I didn't need to supervise, just push the button to start the download. I came away with over 6000 shots backed up, unprocessed, and enjoyed my trip immensely. Like you, no PC to tempt me into wasting time there PP. I just made sure of my settings as I shot, reviewed a few to verify and stayed in the moment while there.

FreddB Loc: PA - Delaware County

Not too reliable???

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

That would be the way I would interpret it.
(Was also thinking a new one as opposed to SCSI, SATA, etc... )