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How to Save Digital Pictures I am going on vacation and taking my digital camera along. Because I take a lot of photos, I have two memory cards. However, I know they will fill up fast, and I was wondering how to save my digital pics without having to print them out every day. I was thinking I could use something like a Kodak photo machine and save the photos on a CD. That way I can delete them off the card to free up more space and print and edit them when I get home. Will this work?
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Tony Sweet |
Writing to CD is the best way, although a little time consuming. Digital wallets are great, too. Many have a viewing window so you can scroll through your images. I would consider taking three or 4 512M or 1G cards. They are very delicate hard drives and if you drop one or accidentally sit on one or drop one in the ocean, it may become inoperative and will need recovery software to pull the images from the damaged drive. Have fun!!
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Diane Dupuis |
I had the same question when I travelled to Europe this past spring. I couldn't afford to buy any more memory cards, and had to rely on downloading onto CD. Unfortunately when I tried it in Paris - it didn't work!!! And if you are not going to a very touristy area you may not fnd a machine. If you can afford it, buy more memory cards or some other device to download the pictures yourself, and be sure at the end of each day to review your shots and delete the so-so ones... Have a great trip!
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- Robert Mann Contact Robert Mann Robert Mann's Gallery |
AVOID THE KODAK KIOSK MACHINES! a) they only hold 120 pictures b) they take your photos and make a slide show so if your pics are all ready for presentation in camera you are fine cause you cannot get to them to process easily and C) you lose the original files and the exif information. Try using one here and if you are OK with that then fine. Otherwise get a portable CD burner or see if there is a place where you will be that can readily transfer the files from your picture cards to a CD for you. Enjoy your trip.
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Phillip A. Flusche |
There are several solutions. All involve some money. One is to download to a lap top you carry with you. A less expensive solution is to download to either a portable CD burner made just for this purpose or a portable hard drive made just for this purpose. The hard drive versions vary in price depending on the size of the hard drive and bells and whistles. I use a portable CD burner that has slots built in for all the major types of memory cards thus negating the need to hook up via a cable. I see advertisements for these type machines in Photo Magazines every month. Mine is made by Apacer and is called "DISK STENO 100". There are two models. Not sure of the current prices but suspect their's and other companies' burners run in the $300 range. CDs are a good choice because you get a relatively long lived permanent/archived copy of the pictures that cannot be modified until downloaded to a PC. One other p;ossibility is to find an internet cafe that will let you burn CDs on their computers. Not very likely and they will charge for the priviedge.
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