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| Midworlder PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 00:07
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A few of you are aware I am on a 7 1/2 month world trip which leaves Auckland on 5th April first stop Chile.
I may have to ask some advice occasionally about somewhere or give an update. I felt a bit guilty hi-jacking DragonSpeed's Europe thread for an England question so I'll start my own
One general question to start perhaps ...
I will be taking photographs on my trip obviously (although I will try not to get obsesssed with it and let it get in the way of a good holiday). I'm taking a laptop and my initial thoughts were to download photos ... sort through for keepers resize them a bit and download onto two disks post one back periodically and keep one with me ... may get someone to check at home the photos are ok then reuse the disks .. Not the best on computers and things so still working out what a CD -R and DVD - RW are as far as disks go !!
I will have 2 x 2 GB memory cards for DSLR and a 2GB card for my other digital camera
Bill kindly sent me a link to I-drive storage .. but I didn't get that far looking into it, not sure how that would work while on the road from laptop ?
Any thoughts about what others have done on longer holidays would be of interest.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 02:22
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1) Do you have internet access on the trip?
2) Do you have a non-laptop PC at home?
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| Midworlder PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 02:33
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1 - yes at various times
2 - no .. at work yes but restriction on file size etc received
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| DragonSpeed PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 06:38
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Originally posted by Midworlder:
1 - yes at various times
2 - no .. at work yes but restriction on file size etc received
There's a nice application called "Foldershare" If you have a PC with you logged in somewhere, you can use Foldershare at night to sync your images back to that. When I travelled China, I had my home PC running and the laptop would sync to it when I plugged in at the hotels.
Just a thought.
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| Midworlder PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 07:05
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Thanks .. Worth the thought, and handy for others but no good for my circumstances.
I think the double disc trick may have to be it .. my laptop allows me to use the 4.7GB DVD discs so thats handy
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| biggles PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 14:21
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Hi Roger,
I always take my portable hard drive, a 40GB Epson. Upload at the end of every day and do a bit of editing as you go. That's for three week trips though and I imagine you will be amassing thousands of images on a trip such as this...you could always upload to FT and then copy them back off when you get home.
Ralph
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| Midworlder PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 15:58
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I suppose a new Pro account would be an option and just bulk upload .. didn't really think of that ... lots of time needed ? and I guess although I will have internet access on a semi regular basis I would be paying for it at various plces..may get expensive ?
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| DragonSpeed PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 20:56
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Get a whack of 1GB cards. (About 60 sounds like it might be good)
Daily: Download contents to laptop.
Weekly: courier card home/to a friend from where you are.
When you get home, you'll have a copy on the card waiting for you.
B.
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| Midworlder PRO Sun 16th Mar 2008 21:33
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Thanks Brian
Discs would be more cost effective wouldn't they ? The 4.7 GB DVD ones cost a couple of bucks here. I tried yesterday and works for my laptop
Was going to send them home weekly or less often
Just realised, I suppose this particular part of the thread would have been better off in the "Tips' area
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| DragonSpeed PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 01:17
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DIscs, while more cost effective, are more fragile. Your call though, ultimately.
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| Midworlder PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 02:30
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Thanks for the advice Brian .. will consider all options
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| Midworlder PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 06:19
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Off the photo subject for a while .. here is the countries in order and I have probably forgotten some ..
Auckland to Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Galapagos, Mexico, USA, Canada, USA, England, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Monte Carlo, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, South Africa .. Home Sweet Home
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| biggles PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 10:29
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??No Ireland, Scotland, Wales??
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| Midworlder PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 10:33
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Ooops yes ... Wales ... Pembroke / Tenby area .. then up to Harlech /Portmerion .... and Scotland just Edinburgh
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| mbower PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 13:04
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This souds like an amazing trip. Its safe to say we are all jealous.
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| CeterusParibus Mon 17th Mar 2008 13:28
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Originally posted by Midworlder:
then up to Harlech /Portmerion be sure to go into Portmeirion - so many photo ops - a magical place :)
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| Midworlder PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 16:18
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Originally posted by CeterusParibus:
be sure to go into Portmeirion - so many photo ops - a magical place :)
Thanks CP .. I can't remember The TV series .. or perhaps I am in denial ... but I do here it is a fascinating place , I think Harlech isn't to far away either ... tentatively two nights in that area .. Will research over places of interest closer to the time, any thoughts off the top of the head
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| CeterusParibus Mon 17th Mar 2008 16:53
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Originally posted by Midworlder:
any thoughts off the top of the head well you could always spoil yourself and stay in the Village itself, but then you might not escape heh heh!
http://www.portmeirion-village.com/
http://www.fotothing.com/CeterusParibus/photo/06840e1891613d48b821db7218af6c0d/
http://www.fotothing.com/CeterusParibus/photo/0b1242fc6c954d5a607b8003cd061ec6/
BCNU :)
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| Midworlder PRO Mon 17th Mar 2008 18:07
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Excellent thanks
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| rainbow71 Mon 17th Mar 2008 18:29
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I think Dvd's are the way to go. Make sure you have a hard cover for them. If I was you I would make 2 copies especially if you are sending them home. Before deleting them off you laptop (if you are going to do that) make sure you can retrieve them of your DVD. I did that once and lost a lot of photo's. But it has worked since. I really want to carry your bags. Have a great time.
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