Digital Photography for Travellers

Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 10:53 AM
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Marc David Miller
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Digital Photography for Travellers

There is an article in today's Washington Post dealing with digital photography for travellers:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12160-2001Dec21.html

I wish the author pointed out the advantage of the Digital Wallet device (about $200-500, depending on storage) which allows you to download images from the Compact Flash cart (or memory stick) and frees up the CF card for more photos. The DW device holds anywhere from 3000-20000 1MB images.
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 01:15 PM
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There is another device (and there will undoubtedly be more) called PhotoShow for downloading without a PC.
I went all digital for my last trip to France and have loved the results. I have a 3.3 MP Olympus so was able to drop the resolution down a notch tripling my storage capabilities.
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 01:54 PM
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I am not entirely sure if this works with a digital camera, but along the same lines as the Digital Wallet are the various new MP3 jukeboxes - - they hold (the MP3 files from) up to 500 CD's in a 12 ounce, pocket size package. And they are for all practical purposes like a simple "slave D: drive" for any kinds of files you want to store on them - - no reason you couldn't store .jpg files or any other format. Typical transfer is by standard USB cable, with the exception of APple's i-Pod which uses FireWire.

Best wishes,

Rex
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 06:02 PM
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I would also like to travel with a digital camera. Does anyone know if you can bring your Smart Card into a photo place and have them print everything up? I'd hate to have to do it myself.
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 06:18 PM
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Irma,

Yes, you can bring your card into most of the larger shops and get whatever pictures you want printed. You can also have them all dumped onto a CD for viewing on your computer or TV. I just get the pictures I want printed to hang because the quality is great compared to what I can do myself. The rest I burn onto a CD myself and turn them into a slide show. No more passing pictures for me.

Greg
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2001, 06:28 PM
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Rex, would you need a computer to control the device, or does it offload from a media card automatically?

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Irma, I think that the problem is (i) availability of such shops when you need them and (ii) price if those shops offer such a printing service. I can almost guarantee that you can get a better price at home (when you did your research) than at some tourist destination in Europe.

Many internet cafes do have CD burners, but may not have flash card readers--it is still not a guaranteed to work process.
 
Old Dec 24th, 2001, 06:46 AM
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Marc,

The jukebox I know best is the "Neo" - - aka mstation - - you can learn a little bit about it at www.my-mstation.com (though not much, it's really a pretty lame website).

And I have a feeling that it needs to communicate with something that has (or has the appearance of) an operating system. But like I said, I don't own a digital camera, so I can't say for sure. It seems like this would be two "dumb" devices - - neither one able to "take control". I can tell you for sure that the mStation has no way of INITIATING file transfer - - like I said before, it is like a "slave D: drive". You use Windows Explorer to transfer files FROM it, TO it, or manipulate files ON it.
 
Old Dec 24th, 2001, 08:03 AM
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Hi Marc,

My wife (the film/picture person) has a Sony mini DV Handycam that she bought several years ago.

The purhase criteria was:

1. Small and lightweight.
2. Still shots and movies - interchangeably.
3. Flexibility and unlimited storage (mini tapes)
4. Average to High quality output.
5. Fast download capability (firewire)

At the time of purchase the camera was about $2,000 retail $1,200 at discounters.

The camera is absolutely GREAT. Two downsides.

1. Batteries are expensive
2. Grabbing 'stills' from a film is not refined.

On the processing side she has a pretty high end PC with great software for editing.

Her solution was to concentrate on the entire end-to-end process as decision criteria.

We are ecstatic with the results (three year old technology is still our choice)

Happy hunting.

By the way, the LCD monitor allows instant review; and is a great tool for meeting local people/conversation starters.
 

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