Traveling With an M9....

I love my iPad for consuming content, but, for a photo trip, I'd much rather bring along a Macbook Air, since it isn't much different in size, and it has full laptop functionality.
 
I always carry an external backup drive when I travel, and never use a card larger then 4gb.. Cards fail. Many here on RFF do not know, judging from past posts, how to care for cards. Cards do and will fail. Especially if all you do is just delete and not reformat the card in the camera after every dowload. Carrying all your imagery on a large card, 32gb or so, you are asking for trouble. Safer carrying a few 4gb cards.
 
I will try to download each night all photos to an external drive, followed by formatting the memory cards in the M9.
I have one 16GB drive, several 8GB and 4GB drives.
 
Your drive (16 Gb is far too small btw) is the backup for your cards, but your cards are the backup for the drive. Only delete your files after you have uploaded -and backed them up- on your computer back home.
 
jaapv said:
Your drive (16 Gb is far too small btw) is the backup for your cards, but your cards are the backup for the drive. Only delete your files after you have uploaded -and backed them up- on your computer back home.
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I am thinking of getting a small sized 80GB-100GB drive maybe.
 
Many great photos Vincent. BUT that last one is amazing.. the contrast of the lady vs surroundings + the relation between the lady and statue up front. All in all a great & amazing capture!

//Juha
 
Depends how many, they are rather large, so you need a fast upload connection. Which is often not provided by hotel wifi.

And you need a laptop of course.
 
This is starting to sound like it's almost better to just stay home!

Cards can and do fail -- I think in the 13 years that I've been shooting digital, and using about 10 different cameras and about 50+ cards of all sizes and brands, I've had all of two fail (one CF and one SD). Even with the SD that failed, I was shooting both RAW and JPEG Fine at the time, and I was able to recover the JPEGS by putting the card in another camera and transferring the shots from that camera to my computer (and I thnk I could have recovered the RAW files if I worked hard enough on it). The CF card failed after only taking about 4 shots, so I didn't really lose much of anything. And I had been using that card for about 3 years up until that point.

Here again, I'm coming at it strictly from a vacation standpoint. One of the issues we had on our recent trip (Arizona/New Mexico) was that we were traveling in an Airstream trailer and a Chevy Suburban, so no hotel, no safe, not much security, and sometimes no amenities (no electricity and certainly no internet). So we had enough other stuff to worry about.
 
i always wear black and if I believe I am stealth then I am truly stealth and therefor I will not be seen when I take people's pictures right in their face.. or atleast they will see me after i click the shutter

always wear black when you're travelling and tape your m9 with black all around and wear black shoes.. a black hat...

good luck..be stealth
 
If you don't want to mess around with computers, you might consider something like the Digital Foci Photo Safe II series. $140 gets you a 320GB little hard drive that you can plug your SD card right into and back up. You could even get two of them, so that you can delete your SD cards as you go and still have redundancy.
 
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