Photo storage when away (1 Viewer)

[tony.saw]

Hi
With the large file sizes that cameras now have, how does anyone store photos when they are away from their computer and/or unable to get a signal for cloud storage for a few weeks? Is there an alternative to buying a large number of cards?
Thanks
Tony

 

[Butty]

I see it rather the other way round... Given how large, how cheap and how convenient cards are now, what's to worry about? How much are you looking to store?

 

[Mono]

By far the cheapest option is to buy multiple cards, though that does just give you one copy. A cheap tablet will give you the option to duplicate cards for a backup and the ability to review your images and delete the dross.

 

[delia todd]

I've had some disasters with cards going faulty unfortunately. One trip the card somehow lost all the pictures from the morning session; they had definitely been there as I'd looked at them!

What I did for my Oz trip was to download each evening onto a tablet, then save the pictures to a flash drive. Worked well for me.

 

[earthdragon64]

I always have my laptop when I'm away, each night I download photos onto that, then immediately back them up onto a plug and play external hard drive.

 

[Steve Babbs]

I use a tablet. Put card reader in one micro USB port and flash drive in the other and copy.

 

[MikeInPA]

I always have my laptop when I'm away, each night I download photos onto that, then immediately back them up onto a plug and play external hard drive.

Yep. Same here, I always take a MacBook with me. Capture One import routine lets you view the files on the card full size and let’s you select only the ones you want to import thus saving space. When you’ve made your selection the files are copied to the MacBook and backed up to the external drive in one go.

 

[earthdragon64]

Yep. Same here, I always take a MacBook with me. Capture One import routine lets you view the files on the card full size and let’s you select only the ones you want to import thus saving space. When you’ve made your selection the files are copied to the MacBook and backed up to the external drive in one go.

Sounds very efficient, and great if your space is limited.

 

[MikeInPA]

Sounds very efficient, and great if your space is limited.

I take lots of photos and I can fill up 2 x 128GB cards easily in a day.

 

[tony.saw]

Thanks for all the suggestions. It look's like I will try to resurrect my old lap top

 

[Ted Y.]

It look's like I will try to resurrect my old lap top

The old hard disk drives can fail whitout any warning. "failure rates steadily increase with age."

 

[etudiant]

Hi
With the large file sizes that cameras now have, how does anyone store photos when they are away from their computer and/or unable to get a signal for cloud storage for a few weeks? Is there an alternative to buying a large number of cards?
Thanks
Tony

The answer is to buy a portable SSD, such as this Samsung Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield Review - The SSD Review
A robust shirt pocket size device than holds a terabyte or two, for under $150/terabyte.

 

[Ted Y.]

The answer is to buy a portable SSD, such as this Samsung Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield Review - The SSD Review
A robust shirt pocket size device than holds a terabyte or two, for under $150/terabyte.

And with superior fast transfer.
I would like to buy one, I just not have a strong justification the drop the actual SSD.

 

[ghht492]

Hi
With the large file sizes that cameras now have, how does anyone store photos when they are away from their computer and/or unable to get a signal for cloud storage for a few weeks? Is there an alternative to buying a large number of cards?
Thanks
Tony

SSD drive is your best bet when you can't access to the internet and you need your work saved to free up space

 

[Butty]

The answer is to buy a portable SSD

How is this an answer? Don't you still need a computer to transfer the files from card to SSD? - or do clever new cameras allow you to copy photos direct from card to a dumb storage device plugged into the camera? I know my camera couldn't do that, though it is, umm, old.
I don't see any suggestions here which are other than:
- Take plenty of cards and do without a backup.
Or...
- Take a computer.
Does there really not exist a (very) small device that one can simply plug into a camera once a day and have it auto-copy onto itself all the photos created since the last plug-in? I'd buy one.

 

[Ted Y.]

Does there really not exist a (very) small device that one can simply plug into a camera once a day and have it auto-copy onto itself all the photos created since the last plug-in? I'd buy one.

I hope no camera will be made to allow an external device to read/alter the content.

 

[Butty]

I hope no camera will be made to allow an external device to read/alter the content.

You lost me.
1. I didn't say anything about altering what's on the camera.
2. If someone steals your camera, they have - in any case - total and unrestricted access to what's on it.
Maybe you just (completely) misunderstood my point.

 

[njlarsen]

I am not sure which type of tablet people were talking about, but I understood them to say there was one significantly smaller than a pc that could be that in-between device. I would be curious about which?
Niels

 

[Butty]

Since it would only have one (really very simple/mindless) task to do, I would hope it would be substantially cheaper, as well as smaller, than a tablet.

 

[Mono]

There are plenty of external hard drives around, including SSDs that also have card readers. You can stick the card in and do a complete card backup. They don't allow for any selective transfer but would be useful for backups but it might be cheaper just to buy more cards. Plus they are usually SD only.