how do you back up your images when travelling?

I copy onto an ipad ( does that count as a computer ? ) - editing out the worthless shots on the way resulting in an on the run slide show.
Taking many cards allows me to keep and not reuse the originals cards ; with the write protect tab set as soon as the card comes out of the camera.
 
FrozenInTime said:
I copy onto an ipad ( does that count as a computer ? ) - editing out the worthless shots on the way resulting in an on the run slide show.
Taking many cards allows me to keep and not reuse the originals cards ; with the write protect tab set as soon as the card comes out of the camera.
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this is pretty much what i do...use the ipad and keep the images on the sd cards...but i was thinking about something where all the images could be in one place...but my ipad has the smallest storage available in ipads...
 
I take a computer when traveling. I keep the images on the camera card(s) as well. This gives me two copies (computer and card) until I'm back home for a real backup.
 
I've used an Epson Multimedia Storage Viewer P-3000 for many years and have never had a problem. It accepts SD and CF cards and has a 4 inch display. I rarely use it for editing and the 40GB has been enough for me. The newer devices at the link above look interesting, but if you see an Epson at a good price it might be worth a try.
 
All hard drive based solutions whether laptop or dedicated devices are not fail safe either. A hard drive has been known to die at the most unpreditable time. In the HD industry, there is a specification for mean time to failure based on test sample... Most consumer HD do not have this specification only enterprise quality ones do.

Flash drives related products such as laptop w/ ssd drive does not have this problem. Another approach is buying an ssd and putting it in an external USB/fw HD case using it w/ your laptop.

HD, ssd, cf/sd cards can end up corrupted as well...

No real fail safe approach. Just need to understand the trade off.

I have heard of people uploading their images to the cloud while on vacation as well.

Gary
 
using the iPad and lots of sd cards...I'm probably fine...but if I can find a small and not too expensive solution I would give that a try...
I can't find anything local to look at though...might wait till I hit new york.
 
I take my 11" MacBook Air and external hard drive and leave images on card so as to have two copies. Means I can edit a delete unwanted while travelling especially in Airports and train stations. Is same size as iPad.
 
Bought an Eye-Fi card for my M8. Backs up to my iphone then into your photo stream. Then iphoto on the mac. Slick works great with dng/raw. Never took mac with me, only iphone.

Just setup wi-fi connection between phone and camera, never took card out of the M8. Also will backup to their site free for 7 days, $65 bucks on Amazon.
 
I am planning to use a small 250GB external drive with my IPad, plus leaving the files also on the memory cards. If all get deleted somehow or corrupted, then the film back-up on a small camera (Minox GT) will still be there. If the film gets also damaged, the memories will still be there in my brain. If I lose all memories somehow, then I will be concerned with my health than images.
 
PKR said:
Hi Gary-

In the past most drive makers published MTBF data. I find it hard to find this data these days. I know that most portable HDDs use drives sourced by their engineers and bean counters. I won't use LaCie drives because I never know who's HDD is in their fancy box. LaCie often get lots of WD drives and I've had very bad luck with WD products. I think Seagate biught WD just after they were sold. Toshiba or Seagate seem good. I don't know what is inside a Buffalo Drive these days?
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I think I remember seeing it for scsi HD but cannot ever remember seeing for consumer IDE drives in the past.

These days the price of consumer HD drives are so cheap, not sure if vendors want to go thru the trouble of doing the analysis whereas enterprise grade it is expected.

Gary
 
I use a 32GB Nexus 7. Gives the advantage of an approximate 4X6 display of photos for review. Half the size of an iPad and only $200 with 32GB. Requires a dongle to connect since it has no card slot, and a USB card reader. About $15 extra.
 
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