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airplane travel and my brand new dslr
"Mark²" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote:
Mark² wrote: For hard-drive space...go to Costco and pick up one of these for a mere $109: http://westerndigital.com/en/product...sp?DriveID=262 I have three of these, and they've been extremely reliable. It's great to not have a need for power cords, as it runs off the USB power. Very well-constructed, and TINY. 160GB. Great little units! I took a picture of the Western Digital HD to give you an idea of how small they are (I noticed there was nothing in the web-site's image to give you perspective): He http://www.pbase.com/image/79831138/original Very very small. It also comes with a very nice, custom-fit soft case that has a pocket for the small USB cord: http://www.pbase.com/image/79831887/original I'd agree that is probably the right solution, given the size, disk space, and price. There are some interesting variations which might be useful in certain circumstance, for example on an extended trip or for otherwise massive disk storage needs. First, many if not most laptops these days have writable DVD drives. Second, there are USB to IDE/SATA converters, along with storage cases (all at less than $20). For use with 2.5" drives designed for laptops no power supply is needed, and for the larger 3.5" drives there are external power supplies. Obviously these are not nearly as small and cute as the one pictured in the URL above (and at $109 for 160GB that makes a very nice package), but if the space needed is large, a couple of $15 case/adapter kits and a pair of 500GB or larger disks is both a readily available solution, and totally mind boggling too! For my laptop I carry around a 200GB disk that, including the USB adapter, cost less than $90. And today there are 320GB external hard disks with power supply and enclosures that are selling on eBay for $110 (including the $20 shipping and handling charge). I'm tempted (not enough yet to actually do it) to get a second disk with a USB adapter just to see if Linux's software RAID array would double the disk i/o speed on these things! Mine runs at just a bit slower than the internal IDE disk in the laptop, so it is possible that i/o speed could be nearly doubled. Maybe. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Joseph Meehan wrote:
louise wrote: .. The hard drive on my portable will not be able to hold all the RAW photos I'll shoot. I have a very small and light Thinkpad which has no built in writable drive and just a couple of usb ports and a relatively small hard drive. Uploading from Japan to a server in NY will be very slow if not impossible. What would be the best method of transferring the raw files from my SD disks onto a different media? I suggest that you learn to use the delete button. Digital has allowed us to become rather sloppy and get away with it. People take 50 photos of a single subject. There may be 3 really good ones and 40 that are dups or poor quality images. For some reason people just can't bring them selves to say, hey that one is ugly or just another good image, but not as good as this other one and I should delete it. In the old days we would not have made 50 images, maybe two or three. Note, I am an old guy and when I was in it professionally a 4X5 was still standard. Really I do suggest, even if you have an amazing storage capacity, to delete most of what you take. Your average quality will go way up. Are you old enough to have sat through someone's vacation slides? If so you will know what I mean. You really don't need to keep your mistakes and second best photos. I agree about deleting clear mistakes, or complete duplicates... But I'd be a little careful with wholesale deletion. There have been literally HUNDREDS of times where I've gone back to an archived collection of shots that were culled into obscure storage upon my initial round of those I wished to have ready access to...where I've found some real gems. There are often shots we find significant for different reasons, but not until later do they seem significant. This can be especially true with family photos, but also many others. -Just a word of caution/balance on that... Mark² -- Images (Plus Snaps & Grabs) by Mark² at: www.pbase.com/markuson |
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 20:35:15 +0100, Adrian Boliston wrote:
The hard drive on my portable will not be able to hold all the RAW photos I'll shoot. I have a very small and light Thinkpad which has no built in writable drive and just a couple of usb ports and a relatively small hard drive. . . . You must be planning on shooting a lot of RAW if it will fill your HDD! Even entry level portables seem to come with at least 60 gigs these days. We don't know how large her Thinkpad drive is. I have an old Thinkpad and it has a hard drive with less capacity than one of my SD or xD cards, only 1.2GB. Let's assume that her Thinkpad's hard drive has as capacity somewhere between 1.2GB and 60GB. One solution would be to get one of the very small external hard drives that has a USB port, and the portable could copy the RAW photos to its own hard drive and then recopy them to the USB drive. The 40 and 80 GB versions I've seen are inexpensive and about the size of an indictable ham sandwich. |
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"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
I suggest that you learn to use the delete button. Digital has allowed us to become rather sloppy and get away with it. People take 50 photos of a single subject. There may be 3 really good ones and 40 that are dups or poor quality images. For some reason people just can't bring them selves to say, hey that one is ugly or just another good image, but not as good as this other one and I should delete it. In the old days we would not have made 50 images, maybe two or three. Note, I am an old guy and when I was in it professionally a 4X5 was still standard. Really I do suggest, even if you have an amazing storage capacity, to delete most of what you take. Your average quality will go way up. Are you old enough to have sat through someone's vacation slides? If so you will know what I mean. You really don't need to keep your mistakes and second best photos. You are assuming a lot that is not in evidence. An example. Many years ago my brother was polite enough to sit through the showing of some "home movies" that a friend had taken. Pretty boring stuff for a real photographer. But at some point he nearly fell out of his chair! One totally useless bit of the film, virtually wasted in the opinion of the owner because it was just a test to see if the camera was working and was aimed at a group of people he didn't even know... just happened to catch my brother's attention because it was *his* brother, yours truly, and family that was on the film. I've kept thousands of images which appear at first glance to be useless. Because sometimes it isn't a "great photograph" that is needed, but merely documentation of what was there. It can even be out of focus, poorly light and ill framed, and still have *exactly* the information needed. Delete photos of the ceiling, the floor, of totally white and totally black... but keeping the duplicates and 2nd (or worse) best images is *cheap*. And sometimes they just happen to end up being the 1st choice years later when the need is something nobody could have foreseen. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Mark² wrote:
Mark² wrote: For hard-drive space...go to Costco and pick up one of these for a mere $109: http://westerndigital.com/en/product...sp?DriveID=262 I have three of these, and they've been extremely reliable. It's great to not have a need for power cords, as it runs off the USB power. Very well-constructed, and TINY. 160GB. Great little units! I took a picture of the Western Digital HD to give you an idea of how small they are (I noticed there was nothing in the web-site's image to give you perspective): He http://www.pbase.com/image/79831138/original Very very small. It also comes with a very nice, custom-fit soft case that has a pocket for the small USB cord: http://www.pbase.com/image/79831887/original -Mark² Thank you so much for the recommendations and for the picture - it really is small, which is very important. Louise |
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Michael Meissner wrote:
louise writes: I will be taking a trip to Japan and will need to carry a portable computer, several bottles of different medications since one now has to have the pills in the bottle, and clothing and such for a few weeks. Additionally, I want to take my new Nikon D40X and my new 55-200 VR Nikon lens. I have two questions: The hard drive on my portable will not be able to hold all the RAW photos I'll shoot. I have a very small and light Thinkpad which has no built in writable drive and just a couple of usb ports and a relatively small hard drive. Uploading from Japan to a server in NY will be very slow if not impossible. What would be the best method of transferring the raw files from my SD disks onto a different media? Next question is about carry-on. I can't see being able to carry all this onto the plane with the new regulations. Is there a case which is considered "baggage proof" into which I could put my camera and lens that I could put on with my other baggage? I always carry my camera gear, medical machine (CPAP), medicines, and laptop. Clothes and such, I always check (but it is better to have at least one change of shirt, underware, socks in your carry on also). While it doesn't happen that often, it is not unknown for high end checked gear to get stolen. I believe the airlines have a little clause that they will not be responsible if you check cameras or laptops specifically. There are different strategies I've used over the years, depending on the flights I'm going to be making, and how much gear I'm carrying: 1) Lowepro Compudaypack -- I just bought this on my last trip, and it has 3 separate compartments, one for laptop, one for camera, and another compartment. My gear just bit in the backpack. Note, it is larger by an inch for some of the smaller regional airlines, so be sure to know the size (and weight) requirements of each of your flights. 2) National Geographic NG-5162 backpack -- This is like the Compudaypack in that it has 3 compartments. It met the smaller size of the SwissAir carry on in a trip I had last November, but my work laptop didn't fit in the laptop pocket, so my wife volunteered to carry my CPAP machine (she won't do that again, since the CPAP machine guarantees you a bag inspection). I recomend actually finding a store that has the bags in stock so you can avoid this problem and try it out ahead of time. 3) National Geographic NG-2475 shoulder bag -- my NG-2475 has a laptop pocket that is big enough for the laptop, and it fits under the seats. For US flights that allow a 'personal' bag plus suitcase, it works fine for me. 4) Stormcase or Pelican hard sided roller bag -- as long as you have good padding inside, this should survive baggage handling. However, it does pretty much stick out as saying expensive gear inside. I also discovered that airlines have smaller than the standard IATA requirements, and when I wanted to use it last fall for a trip to Europe, it was too big for one of the flights. I do use it as a normal roller bag and will gate check the bag on smaller regional airlines. Another downside is it is fairly heavy, and it airlines are enforcing the weight limits, you won't be able to carry much DSLR gear. Note, I bought this right after the London terrorist incident last year when they required you to check everything, so I wanted to be prepared to check the gear if needed. 5) Normal roller bag -- I found a roller bag at Walmart that I can pack everything, and it has a laptop pocket so I can get the laptop out for inspection. Like the Stormcase, it was too big for one of my flights last year. 6) Normal backpack with laptop pocket -- if you aren't carrying too much gear, this is nice an anonymous and allows you to carry a moderate amount of stuff. Another place to check is http://www.thinktankphoto.com which is dedicated to making bags for the traveling photographer. I see you list an option of a "normal roller bag" - this is what I've used in the past and I have put my Thinkpad inside. But my normal roller bag is canvas to keep it lightweight. If I were to use this, how would I adequately protect the camera and lens? If I did it separately, I would have 3 items: my purse, my normal roller bag, the camera on my shoulder and the second lens on my belt. I could probably get away with this but what if I couldn't? I'll look at thinktankphoto as well. Louise |
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Joseph Meehan wrote:
louise wrote: .. The hard drive on my portable will not be able to hold all the RAW photos I'll shoot. I have a very small and light Thinkpad which has no built in writable drive and just a couple of usb ports and a relatively small hard drive. Uploading from Japan to a server in NY will be very slow if not impossible. What would be the best method of transferring the raw files from my SD disks onto a different media? I suggest that you learn to use the delete button. Digital has allowed us to become rather sloppy and get away with it. People take 50 photos of a single subject. There may be 3 really good ones and 40 that are dups or poor quality images. For some reason people just can't bring them selves to say, hey that one is ugly or just another good image, but not as good as this other one and I should delete it. In the old days we would not have made 50 images, maybe two or three. Note, I am an old guy and when I was in it professionally a 4X5 was still standard. Really I do suggest, even if you have an amazing storage capacity, to delete most of what you take. Your average quality will go way up. Are you old enough to have sat through someone's vacation slides? If so you will know what I mean. You really don't need to keep your mistakes and second best photos. I know you're right.....in principle. But my travel companion will kill me if I spend half our trip taking pictures and then come back to the hotel room every night and obsess about what to delete :-) I'm hoping to avoid major deletion decisions until I get back. Louise |
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louise wrote:
I will be taking a trip to Japan and will need to carry a portable computer, several bottles of different medications since one now has to have the pills in the bottle, and clothing and such for a few weeks. Additionally, I want to take my new Nikon D40X and my new 55-200 VR Nikon lens. I have two questions: The hard drive on my portable will not be able to hold all the RAW photos I'll shoot. I have a very small and light Thinkpad which has no built in writable drive and just a couple of usb ports and a relatively small hard drive. Uploading from Japan to a server in NY will be very slow if not impossible. What would be the best method of transferring the raw files from my SD disks onto a different media? Next question is about carry-on. I can't see being able to carry all this onto the plane with the new regulations. Is there a case which is considered "baggage proof" into which I could put my camera and lens that I could put on with my other baggage? I'd never check my camera gear. In fact, if I can help it, I don't check anything and just carry two carry-ons. I have the Lowepro Stealth Reporter 650, which is a little too humongous for my gear, but it was the only thing I could find on short notice, and has been very useful ever since. It counts as a carry-on. It can hold the laptop, too. Here's a review: http://www.vividlight.com/articles/1614.htm -- http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2..._argument.html |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:28:04 -0400, louise wrote:
I know you're right.....in principle. But my travel companion will kill me if I spend half our trip taking pictures and then come back to the hotel room every night and obsess about what to delete :-) I'm hoping to avoid major deletion decisions until I get back. You could simplify the process by dividing the photos into three groups when you get back to the hotel. This may not seem like less work at first glance, but if you store them in different folders as Keepers, Deleters and Maybes, you can probably work much faster, not having to spend extra time agonizing about which ones to delete. The actual deletion can still take place when you get back, or if you run out of storage space towards the end of your trip, then you could cull the ones in the Deleters folder. Some have mentioned the value of saving *everything*, since a few of those that would be deleted might someday be one that would have had some value. The problem with this thinking is that these represent a *tiny* fraction of the pictures, and most people probably never would have any that would be valuable. And the ones you're able to take because of space freed for them by the triage deleted Deleters are just as likely to be one of the similarly poor shots that may someday have some value. But they also are much more likely to turn into some additional Keepers. If their logic had much value, they'd bring along more flash cards or backup devices and take at least twice as many shots, because out of all of the extra shots, someday a few may turn out to be of some value. But most won't, and it will cost the photographer double the time, effort and expense to take or archive them. |
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louise writes:
I see you list an option of a "normal roller bag" - this is what I've used in the past and I have put my Thinkpad inside. But my normal roller bag is canvas to keep it lightweight. If I were to use this, how would I adequately protect the camera and lens? Usually when I go the rollerbag approach, I pack the camera in a padded bag inside of the roller bag. The usual bag that I used to use is the Adorama Slinger which is narrower than a lot of bags, and fits in my roller bag that has the laptop pocket on the bottom that speeds up getting the laptop out for security: http://www.adorama.com/GBSLGY.html?s...nger&item_no=6 I use use a small enough roller bag that it can be normally a carry on. If I'm flying a small regional jet, I have to gate check it where they load it up in the cargo hold, and then on jetway or tarmac everybody waits for their bags to be delivered. Obviously for the most protection, you need to use a Stormcase or Pelican as the roller bag, but as I said they have their own disadvantages. I forgot one other approach that I don't recomend. Ditch the dslr, and get a small superzoom (Olympus SP-550, Canon S3/S5, Panasonic FZ8/FZ50/etc.). If I did it separately, I would have 3 items: my purse, my normal roller bag, the camera on my shoulder and the second lens on my belt. I could probably get away with this but what if I couldn't? When I flew to Europe last November, the rule was one bag, with no exceptions for a purse, laptop bag, camera bag, medical equipment, etc. like they allow in the USA. So your carry on bag had to be able to hold the purse, etc. Ie, the roller bag needs to carry everything (I don't generally carry much spare clothes in the roller bag, and of course there is rule about liquids). I usually put things like extra batteries, flashes, etc. in checked luggage, though nowadays airlines are starting to be stingy about the amount of weight of checked luggage as well, so you need to start thinking about what you really don't need. I've seen some working pro photographers will do things like wear a photo vest cramed with gear, but as an already big guy, the vests would make it impossible for me to fit in the seat. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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