Tablet and Travel

I think the adapter does only work on the iPad, not on the iPhone, sadly....

...This is correct.
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I apologise. I'd always taken it as read and never bothered to try it out, because my iPhone is always full of work stuff. Just plugged it into the iPhone and you guys are quite right.

Thanks for catching that :)
 
Tablet plus wifi external HD

Tablet plus wifi external HD

Duh... I forgot about this. For those who do not wish to bring a laptop on vacation.. Only a tablet.

There are other such ext HD out there. I forgot about this because I never been gone long enough to exceed my spare sd card and I never edit on my tablet. I mainly used it for carrying all my other media on the road.. I could keep my tablet flash size to smallest cost factor.

Something like the Seagate Wireless Plus which is an external wifi HD. Max size is 500gb. Provides a wifi connection point to use w/ your tablet. It has Andriod and iPad app support..

Upload your photo to the tablet for edit and such, then transfer to the external HD via wifi connection by pointing tablet wifi to the sysID of the ext HD.

I am not sure if u can do a direct upload from your camera w/ a eyefi card or a camera w/ wifi capability, but the Seagate does not have a card slot like the Epson ones did.

Gary
 
I still have one of the old Epson gizmos in the closet (I should recharge its battery when I get home tonite). Clumsy and known to be prone to failure (although I've had no problems with mine). It's larger and heavier than the A7 camera, certainly clumsier to carry along than my iPad mini by a long shot, with a tenth the functionality.

With 128G space in the iPad mini and a Retina screen, it does the job very well.
:)

G
 
Wow.. 128g version... W/ the seagate I been staying 16gb. My I new iPad mini retina I did go for 32gb so I would not always need to bring the external HD.

Three plus months RTW tour.. May still put a damper on 128gb capacity if one is shooting raw.

Just like u I have enough spare sd cards to last my normal vacation (2 weeks). I don't like using sd cards bigger then 16gb myself.. More to loose if u get sd corruption or loose/misplace the card.

I remember that ext HD. I would be surprised if that battery is still good?

Gary
 
I don't like using sd cards bigger then 16gb myself.. More to loose if u get sd corruption or loose/misplace the card.
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My attempt to get round that is to carry a few spare cards and rotate the next one into use every day. That way, I have some chance of not facing a total loss, if a card fails. I think that three cards per camera is about right, following the hallowed IT tradition of "father, grandfather, son".
 
Rotating the sd cards is a good idea since there is a limited life expectancy related to the totally number of writes to any specific flash sector. While the number of write cycle is pretty high and for average user, they may never encounter it, doesn't mean it can't happen.

Gary
 
GaryLH said:
Wow.. 128g version... W/ the seagate I been staying 16gb. My I new iPad mini retina I did go for 32gb so I would not always need to bring the external HD.

Three plus months RTW tour.. May still put a damper on 128gb capacity if one is shooting raw.

Just like u I have enough spare sd cards to last my normal vacation (2 weeks). I don't like using sd cards bigger then 16gb myself.. More to loose if u get sd corruption or loose/misplace the card.

I remember that ext HD. I would be surprised if that battery is still good?
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Yes, with my base data taking up a little less than 30G, that leaves 100G free space for JPEG+raw files off the camera. At least room for 2000-2500 exposures if I drop everything from the camera onto the iPad, but as I outlined above, I generally don't do that. I feel it's better to curate what I put on the iPad, and remove what I'm done with.

I heard the same thing when cards went from 64M to 128M, from 512M to 1G, etc. In 12 years and 200,000-plus exposures with god knows how many different cameras and cards of all types, I've never had a card 'go bad' or lost a file. I always buy quality cards and test them before I depend upon them. I was buying 16G cards then swapped up to 32G—nice for the larger file sizes of the later 16 and 24 Mpixel cameras.

G
 
I had a sd corruption once with a no name brand I bought at either Fry's or Microcenter ages ago.. So far I have never had one since..

Gary
 
GaryLH said:
Rotating the sd cards is a good idea since there is a limited life expectancy related to the totally number of writes to any specific flash sector. While the number of write cycle is pretty high and for average user, they may never encounter it, doesn't mean it can't happen.
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Flash media volume drivers know about this, of course, and most are written to accommodate balanced distribution of write loads. So even if you are writing the same file to the same card thousands of times, the likelihood is that you will never approach the write-cycle life constraints of any quality card. Even the volume information block is quietly moved behind the scenes to prevent write-cycle limitations from destroying the card.

Honestly, these are all real considerations, but the use of flash memory has become so widespread and so sophisticated now that these issues are mostly lost in the noise.

BTW, I charged up the Epson last night. Working fine still, all 40G of it. There are still photos on there from my trip to the UK in 2006 ...! :)

G
 
Yeah the low level flash drivers for the file system randomize the actual sector location, but they need to keep the real sector information straight. This was why I said for the average person they will never run into the problem.. I was thinking the pros that shoot tons of stuff are probably a different issue.

But I have always wondered how much various camera makers use those low level drivers when they expect such big turn over..

40gb used to soooo big :p. my very first digital camera was a Toshiba lol.

I think so long as u stay w/ well known sd/cf card brands, u should be ok. I lost about 40 or so shots from that corrupted no name. Stayed w/ Sandisk since.

Gary
 
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