Lacking a laptop, I’m wondering what my best bet for backing up my digital photos will be while I’m in France. I have an iPod, and I had considered the various attachments that let one load an iPod with photos from a digital camera or from cards. Unfortunately, these solutions don’t seem cheap, and their reviews are mixed at best. Does anyone know of a good travel photo backup plan? I don’t have enough cards to store all the pictures I want to take (although maybe the safest solution is to simply buy more cards).
March 29, 2005
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We just got back from a week in Arizona including a day trip to the Grand Canyon and Flagstaff area (I recommend Salsa Brava, an excellent Tex-Mex place on old Route 66 if anyone is in Flagstaff - worth the visit just for the salsa bar). Anyway, I ended up running out of memory and had to buy more cards. I already carry 3-4 cards and spread the pics out to avoid the possibility of losing them all if one card should fail. Here is a link to a review of one storage device and discussion of alternatives.
http://www.photo.net/equipment/digital/tripper/
What you really need is a bluetooth-enabled camera that sends the pics to a BlackBerry that analyzes the photos and sends the good ones back home for you…
I will send you a couple pics from the Grand Canyon. Highly recommended.
I was about to recommend the CompactDrive that someone I know has but then I found this on the US distributor’s website - http://www.compactdrive.us/:
The high failure rate of PD7X has made selling these units an unprofitable business. The built quality of the product is far worse than what they promised and is not even close to what a professional photographer needs. . . . The fact is that they try not to carry any responsibility for photo lost, considering this has already happened to some users.
Ouch! I don’t know what makes these yahoos think anybody would use them as a distributor in the future after slamming a previous supplier and blaming the supplier for customers’ lost photos.