GaryLH
Veteran
I knew about Sandisk but not Kingston. Thanks for hu.
I decided to give the wireless external sea gate HD a try instead. The app looks like it maybe able to write from fire HD to te d wireless as well.
Kingston and everyone else these days seems to have so much support issues that it is hard to figure out who is really that good anymore. I tend to read the 4&5 stars reviews and then the 1&2 stars to get a handle, but these days it really getting harder to figure out user/support issue versus just a bad product.
Gary
GaryLH
Veteran
dbarnes
Well-known
What worked for me on a three week trip in Europe:
a) Multiple SD cards, rotated daily.
b) Nightly backups from that day's cards to the iPad.
c) Nightly backups of selected photos from the iPad to a service like Dropbox, via hotel wi-fi.
In retrospect, I'd add to (a): Never all cards in the same pocket or bag.
And if one were shooting a high volume of really large images and/or had no access to wi-fi, the iPad/Dropbox approach wouldn't cut it. I would go with the approach that others have suggested -- a MacBook Air 11" or one of the littlest Chromebooks, plus some 64GB USB flash drives.
a) Multiple SD cards, rotated daily.
b) Nightly backups from that day's cards to the iPad.
c) Nightly backups of selected photos from the iPad to a service like Dropbox, via hotel wi-fi.
In retrospect, I'd add to (a): Never all cards in the same pocket or bag.
And if one were shooting a high volume of really large images and/or had no access to wi-fi, the iPad/Dropbox approach wouldn't cut it. I would go with the approach that others have suggested -- a MacBook Air 11" or one of the littlest Chromebooks, plus some 64GB USB flash drives.
raid
Dad Photographer
How did you back up on IPad?" Card reader and not an external drive?
Rogier
Rogier Willems
You can buy a camera connection kit from Apple:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A/apple-ipad-camera-connection-kit
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
I assume you are in the US with unlimited data... Sounds good.
Watch out without unlimited data.
Bill Clark
Veteran
I don't.
Never have had a problem.
Never backed up film when I was film based.
Why should I now?
Works for me.
Never have had a problem.
Never backed up film when I was film based.
Why should I now?
Works for me.
GaryLH
Veteran
A lot of so called unlimited plans are not unlimited. Go above the small print max too often and the carrier starts sending u nasty grams. Max cap differs w/ vendor. Just more truth in advertising. :bang:
Gary
raid
Dad Photographer
Thanks, Rogier. I will get me such an adapter.
Edited: I have such an adapter! It cost me $3.
GaryLH
Veteran
Ok this is the third film comment. Time to comment about film. U got trade off as well
- scratch neg
- lost film canister
- processor screwed up the processing
-- including improper washing
-- stale chemicals
-- scratched negs
- a lot of the old slides and some of those negs have faded color over the years
- bad storage
- god forbid a fire where the film is stored
- bought film that was improperly stored
- u messed up the development, time, temp, chemical solution, spooled it on the reel incorrectly
I started doing film in early 70s... Seen, heard, experienced some of these myself as well as hearing it from others.
I know photographers that still shot film only but they digitize everything they shot as backup.
Gary
- scratch neg
- lost film canister
- processor screwed up the processing
-- including improper washing
-- stale chemicals
-- scratched negs
- a lot of the old slides and some of those negs have faded color over the years
- bad storage
- god forbid a fire where the film is stored
- bought film that was improperly stored
- u messed up the development, time, temp, chemical solution, spooled it on the reel incorrectly
I started doing film in early 70s... Seen, heard, experienced some of these myself as well as hearing it from others.
I know photographers that still shot film only but they digitize everything they shot as backup.
Gary
raid
Dad Photographer
I just asked my wife whether digital images look too digitized, and her response was that while she prefers film, digital images look fine (with M8 and M9). I will use digital. All the responses here are quite useful.
GaryLH
Veteran
I know.. But I just had to rant. ...rant off
Thanks
Gary
Thanks
Gary
FrozenInTime
Well-known
Reading the Amazon reviews it seems not so for the ipad : streams movies only via Wi-Fi - USB is only for computer transfers.
However, what would happen to images stored under a DCIM structure - would that fool the Photos app into believing a camera is attached ?
Also the marketing blurb says it is possible to move files from the ipad camera roll to the Wi-Drive.
I wonder if that includes the raw part of a raw/jpeg file pair ; most apps on the ipad just look at the jpeg and ignore the raw file if present ( PhotoRaw begin one of the exceptions ).
Anyone got one of these it might be more useful that I first though ?
GaryLH
Veteran
Well by the weekend I can report USB vs wifi for my iPad v2 and kindle fire HD using the the wifi HD I have ordered.
Gary
Gary
back alley
IMAGES
all totalled, i have 82 gigs of sd card memory...if that's not enough...
GaryLH
Veteran
iPhoto and aperture will only do the jpg/raw pair for the raws they support which leaves Fuji xtran and sigma foveon out
, I suspect the apple photo viewer will do the same. However I heard that third party photo editors on the iPad can support raw from Fuji w/o problem. Dcim file structure..interesting, I an try copy one from my camera and c what happens.
Gary
GaryLH
Veteran
noimmunity
scratch my niche
FrozenInTime
Well-known
My iPad2 ( 32GB ) is fully stuffed with files and apps - I'm not planning on upgrading until the next gen. iPad mini launches.
Very interested in how you get on - look forward to your report.
raid
Dad Photographer
Make it a round 100 GB. It will help with your calculations as you shuffle cards around.