Photo storage for a long trip
Discussion
Morning all,
Apologies in advance... I don't frequent this part of PH, my ability extends to pointing and shooting although long term aims are to change that.
Anyway...
I will be travelling for a month over in Asia and will be taking my compact (Sony WX350). As I'll be away for a while and propaly taking a lot of photos I got thinking of how is best to store them - should I buy many many SD cards, or buy a couple and back them up each day to a external HD (500gb) using something like this.
The slight complicating factor is that I font want to take my laptop.
The camera has wifi and I should have access to hotel wifi too, if that is any help.
There's probably a tried and tested formula for this type of thing (probably just taking many SD cards!) but I wanted to check incase I'm missing a trick. If I do buy a few cards I probably won't have a use for them all afterwards.
Ta muchly.
ETA Turns out I might be being a moron.
For an 18mb camera it looks like I can get c6,000 photos on a 32gb card. So a a couple of those should suffice!
Apologies in advance... I don't frequent this part of PH, my ability extends to pointing and shooting although long term aims are to change that.
Anyway...
I will be travelling for a month over in Asia and will be taking my compact (Sony WX350). As I'll be away for a while and propaly taking a lot of photos I got thinking of how is best to store them - should I buy many many SD cards, or buy a couple and back them up each day to a external HD (500gb) using something like this.
The slight complicating factor is that I font want to take my laptop.
The camera has wifi and I should have access to hotel wifi too, if that is any help.
There's probably a tried and tested formula for this type of thing (probably just taking many SD cards!) but I wanted to check incase I'm missing a trick. If I do buy a few cards I probably won't have a use for them all afterwards.
Ta muchly.
ETA Turns out I might be being a moron.
For an 18mb camera it looks like I can get c6,000 photos on a 32gb card. So a a couple of those should suffice!
Edited by 4159265 on Tuesday 5th September 11:25
My advice would be:
1. Don't rely on just the SD cards, back them up somehow. The device you linked to will be useful in it's own right as backup power, using it to back up the SD cards to USB flash drives would be a cheap backup option. If you camera is the one I think it is, you can also use the power pack to charge the camera.
2. Don't be tempted to delete stuff from the SD cards, unless you are sure they are safely backed up somewhere else. Even then, as SD Cards are pretty cheap, there really is no need to delete as you go. If you do you the run the risk of deleting stuff unintentionally.
3. Backing up to the cloud would be a real plus if you can do that, but without taking your own laptop you'd be reliant on finding a machine which you could use to do the upload.
Are you taking a tablet or smartphone?
Other options will be available if you are, depending on what device(s) you have.
1. Don't rely on just the SD cards, back them up somehow. The device you linked to will be useful in it's own right as backup power, using it to back up the SD cards to USB flash drives would be a cheap backup option. If you camera is the one I think it is, you can also use the power pack to charge the camera.
2. Don't be tempted to delete stuff from the SD cards, unless you are sure they are safely backed up somewhere else. Even then, as SD Cards are pretty cheap, there really is no need to delete as you go. If you do you the run the risk of deleting stuff unintentionally.
3. Backing up to the cloud would be a real plus if you can do that, but without taking your own laptop you'd be reliant on finding a machine which you could use to do the upload.
Are you taking a tablet or smartphone?
Other options will be available if you are, depending on what device(s) you have.
Depends if your phone supports it, but you can get cables to give you a standard USB socket from the micro USB (or apple equivalent) charging socket. You can then attach an extra storage device like a USB stick to the phone. This should allow you to transfer photos via wifi to the phone and store on the USB.
My wife's camera has dual SD card slots, so pretty easy to back up everything to a second SD card.
My wife's camera has dual SD card slots, so pretty easy to back up everything to a second SD card.
sgrimshaw said:
Simpo Two said:
How long will it take to uploiad Gbs of RAW files to the cloud from some seedy cafe in mongolia?
Pretty sure it won't be an issue for the OP 
IIRC Sony WX350 doesn't have the ability to save in RAW
I'll have access to reliable wifi, the lodgings are +4*
Will have phone (iPhone) and a tablet - amazon fire.
The capacity looks fine, just the backing up which makes me a bit itchy - would rather be a bit more robust than relying on me not losing / formatting / eating the SD cards before we get back home and the photos backed up.
The mention of the cloud got me thinking...
I have just been playing and it looks like I can transfer the photos from camera via wifi and the Sony app to my phone and then back them up to the iCloud. So I can pay my 50p or whatever it is to increase the storage from 5gb to 50gb for the duration.
Looks like I can get them all to copy at full size too!
Is it a recent Fire?
The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
Is it a recent Fire?
The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
I was faced with a similar dilemma earlier this year - my two sons and I at LeMans for five days, each of us filling a 32GB memory card each day, so getting on for half a terrabyte of photos in RAW
I looked at lots of options, but ended up buying a Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro. I got a 2GB version, but they come in 1GB too.
Self powered, with a SD card slot. Simply turn it on, put the card in and it copies it to the hard drive. It also broadcasts a wireless signal so the images can be streamed (although annoyingly, they can't be viewed on an iPad unless they are downloaded)
Can also be used as a wifi hub for streaming media to up to six (?) devices - good for watching films or listening to music.
Not cheap, but very effective
I looked at lots of options, but ended up buying a Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro. I got a 2GB version, but they come in 1GB too.
Self powered, with a SD card slot. Simply turn it on, put the card in and it copies it to the hard drive. It also broadcasts a wireless signal so the images can be streamed (although annoyingly, they can't be viewed on an iPad unless they are downloaded)
Can also be used as a wifi hub for streaming media to up to six (?) devices - good for watching films or listening to music.
Not cheap, but very effective
sgrimshaw said:
Is it a recent Fire?
The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
It is - the 2017 Fire 7 inch.The later ones support OTG, so you can use a USB OTG cable and a card reader to copy from the SD Card to the Tablet (optionally with Micro SD card).
Do you happen to have Amazon Prime?
If so, you have unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive.
Obviously, you can also upload to other cloud services too.
I do have prime, this is sounding like another alternative!
ta
Nigel_O said:
they can't be viewed on an iPad unless they are downloaded
Have you tried this app?https://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser...
Just returned from holiday (nowhere particularly exotic) but I got away with a couple of cards and an on the go (OTG) cable linked to my tablet. Every evening I plugged the camera in highlighted all the relevant image files and dropped them straight into a google drive folder. The Wifi was painfully slow but leaving it overnight did the trick. Images were saved somewhere safer than a compact flash card and I didn't end up with a bag full of full cards.
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