photo storage whilst on the road..

[mavis cruet]

im looking into getting an action camera for our west africa trip and am also thinking of how im going to store all the footage / photos whilst im away. i am thinking a cheepy laptop might do the trick. anybody done this sort of thing? if so what seemed to work? cheers. karl

 

[Timolgra]

I used a dedicated photo storage device for a while but now use a small notebook. (Acer Aspire)
Unless you spend a fortune it probably won't be fast enough to play back HD from the high quality settings on a Gopro but that's not really an issue as long as you can store it

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

I used a dedicated photo storage device for a while but now use a small notebook. (Acer Aspire)
Unless you spend a fortune it probably won't be fast enough to play back HD from the high quality settings on a Gopro but that's not really an issue as long as you can store it

He's absolutely right you know!

 

[Fanum]

A 32GB SD card will cost you what, 12 quid? a few more for a fast one maybe

An SD card holder, reinforced, another tenner?

SD cards (or micro SD, depending on what your camera uses) are tiny and flat.....you could gaffa tape a hundred of them on an inside face of a pannier and lose only 3mm off the dimensions of the box.

For storage rather than storage + editing, I'd probably go for a bulk deal on SD cards, but it depends on how you want to deal with our storage I guess

I had a camera stolen in Gambia....hurt like hell 'cos it had loads of stills on it, so I'd be unwilling to trust in a single object storage device anymore.

 

[John Armstrong]

Small laptop onto an external hard drive, if there aren't too many videos, then you could store them on both.

 

[Timolgra]

A 32GB SD card will cost you what, 12 quid? a few more for a fast one maybe

An SD card holder, reinforced, another tenner?

SD cards (or micro SD, depending on what your camera uses) are tiny and flat.....you could gaffa tape a hundred of them on an inside face of a pannier and lose only 3mm off the dimensions of the box.

For storage rather than storage + editing, I'd probably go for a bulk deal on SD cards, but it depends on how you want to deal with our storage I guess

I had a camera stolen in Gambia....hurt like hell 'cos it had loads of stills on it, so I'd be unwilling to trust in a single object storage device anymore.

Read the post!
Footage you'll need an awfull lot of SD cards

 

[Micky]

I had a camera stolen in Gambia....hurt like hell 'cos it had loads of stills on it, so I'd be unwilling to trust in a single object storage device anymore.

Ditto in Kazakhstan, along with DVD's of stored photographs. I did the right thing and burnt two copies .... but kept them together

I'd emailed a few home for my brother to upload to the trip blog ... thankfully!

Make no mistake, your photographs (digital) won't exist until they are stored on three separate media AND in separate places

For myself, now, I use an iPad with plenty of space and from there move them across to a Seagate 1TB external WiFi hard drive AND to iPhoto AND to Smugmug

More places on your trip will have WiFi than a phone signal

Hope all goes well

 

[Fanum]

Read the post!
Footage you'll need an awfull lot of SD cards

True, but I'm still not comfortable with having a single storage device......as a primary device it might be fine, but If on a trip, I'd like to have a backup.....
A full length DVD rip comes out at about 4-5 GB, and that's 90 mins of HD film.....so you could fit 8 or so of those on a single 12 quid SD card.

I do like to look at footage or pics of a night on a trip, so certainly, a USB port equipped notebook would go with me, but for longer term storage, no way.

10 cards at 12 quid each (and that wasn't a made up price, it was the first Google result on a 32GB card....I'm sure you can get them cheaper and even more so in bulk) gives you a fairly solid and physically tiny storage capacity that's about the same as you'll find on a standard netbook.....about a third of a pack of polos in size when stacked up, but with a profile that you could easily gaffa on to a flat surface

SSDs are also coming down in price.....I bought one recently for the machine I'm using now.....25 quid for a 128 GB ssd.

You could easily connect one of those to a notebook, but they're twenty or more times the size of SD cards for the same storage capacity

For a long trip, right now, I'd go for SD or micro SD cards and a netbook to edit, zip and store stuff onto the cards through.

Postscript.......I also bought a 43 in one USB card reader/writer off ebay last week......free delivery, and seriously, it was 99 fucking pence !!!

The '43 in one' bit is a bit optimistic, as they seem to include the various capacities of card in that number, but it does SD and micro SD as well as the other most common camera memory cards......that's a stupidly cheap price


SD or Micro SD cards.....stick them inside a condom, tie them up them gaffa them to a pannier lid