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« on: October 04, 2013, 12:39 »
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 13:42 »
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I know that you say that you don't want to take a laptop. But if you would be carrying a tablet and and hard drive anyhow then you might just as well take an 11 inch Macbook Air. It's going to be a much less squirly solution and it will be slim and light enough such that it will probably end up taking up less room slipped in your carry-on bag. And an extra USB3 drive will fit in your shirt pocket.

Plus you can also use it to run Lightroom or Photo Mechanic if you suddenly find that you need to keyword and upload something along the way.

ETA: and when you have finished with it in a couple of years the Macbook will have retained much more of its value than anything else you could get.
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 14:30 »
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I know that you say that you don't want to take a laptop. But if you would be carrying a tablet and and hard drive anyhow then you might just as well take an 11 inch Macbook Air. It's going to be a much less squirly solution and it will be slim and light enough such that it will probably end up taking up less room slipped in your carry-on bag. And an extra USB3 drive will fit in your shirt pocket.

Plus you can also use it to run Lightroom or Photo Mechanic if you suddenly find that you need to keyword and upload something along the way.

ETA: and when you have finished with it in a couple of years the Macbook will have retained much more of its value than anything else you could get.

Totally agree.

If you really wan't a tablet, you could use a Surface Pro. It has USB ports etc. and is under the hood actually a laptop (just without the keyboard)

« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 14:39 »
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How many gigabytes do you want to shoot/backup?   I take a tablet + a 32gb usb stick, so no usb hard drive needed.  Sticks are flash memory, which is more reliable than hard drives (unless your hard drive is a SSD of course).

« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2013, 14:49 »
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If you really wan't a tablet, you could use a Surface Pro. It has USB ports etc. and is under the hood actually a laptop (just without the keyboard)

It might be a great product but the Surface Pro has failed in the market. On the up side you can now get one much cheaper than previously because Microsoft have slashed the price. On the down side it will quickly lose any resale value.

In 2 years time you will almost certainly be able to trade in your MacBook Air for more than half what it costs you to buy it tomorrow. That has certainly been the pattern on eBay over the past decade.

Android is great too but the devices also quickly lose their resale value.

ShadySue

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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2013, 15:02 »
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I know you don't want a laptop, but I did a trip in March/April with a netbook and a 500Gb HD, copying my pics onto one then the other. Worked great - I was on a small boat for 12 nights with no internet access, so all my options had to be with me, then it was more than easy to copy from the external HD onto my desktop when I got home. I wasn't actually working on my files on the netbook - hardly had time even to delete the megaduffs, so 2Gb RAM was enough.
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2013, 15:44 »
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2013, 15:56 »
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many years ago already i used a pocket external hdd with a Copy button and memory cards slots, worked fine, i bought it in china for a pittance maybe 30$ without hdd ?, guess it's still on sale with different brands, you can connect it to any pc via USB.

THIS :



i had a different brand but it looks almost the same.
there's an internal battery and once it's fully loaded it will last a long time.

« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2013, 16:01 »
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netbooks : yeah, i see new ones for less than 300$ and they beat tables hands down in any department in my opinion, they're a pc, you can do everything, but the keyboards are way too small for me.

ShadySue

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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2013, 16:09 »
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One downside, of course, you can't take pictures with a netbook.  ::)

« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2013, 16:53 »
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looked at thumb drives before but I must have missed the one I'm seeing now, 128gb for $50.  Four of those might work.

Thumb drives typically have incredibly slow data transfer rates. Be sure to test it for practicality first - see how long it takes you to copy a typical day's worth of pictures to one.

Don't forget to report back with your solution and on how it goes :)

« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2013, 17:43 »
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I just bought a tablet and was thinking of using it instead of my netbook.  This might be worth looking at.
http://petapixel.com/2013/03/26/how-to-back-up-your-pictures-using-an-android-tablet-and-external-hard-drives/

shudderstok

« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2013, 18:25 »
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i find it too dangerous to back up photos while on the road, so i tend to sit on the side of the road - otherwise you get that 'run down' feeling and get 'tired' easily :)

i am on the road a lot, six months or more per year and what works best for me is a net book and one external hard drive, that way i have two back ups.

« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2013, 01:41 »
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The Raspberry Pi would be a great cheap, small and lightweight solution, if it could use a tablet screen.  I've seen people have done that but the tutorials are in geek language.  If only someone could make an app that made it easy to do, they would sell loads to photographers.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2013, 02:11 »
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This is a cheap device but I'm not sure if it would be good for transferring raw files from a card to a USB stick?
http://www.ravpower.com/ravpower-rp-wd01-filehub-3000mah-power-bank.html

Edit:  Found a review of the Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless.  Looks like the same product and looks like it can be used to transfer raw files from an SD card to a USB stick.
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2013, 02:33 »
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I know that you say that you don't want to take a laptop. But if you would be carrying a tablet and and hard drive anyhow then you might just as well take an 11 inch Macbook Air. It's going to be a much less squirly solution and it will be slim and light enough such that it will probably end up taking up less room slipped in your carry-on bag. And an extra USB3 drive will fit in your shirt pocket.

Plus you can also use it to run Lightroom or Photo Mechanic if you suddenly find that you need to keyword and upload something along the way.

ETA: and when you have finished with it in a couple of years the Macbook will have retained much more of its value than anything else you could get.
There are a few issues for me with that solution.  The macbook costs around $1000, it weighs 2.5lbs, I'd still have to carry hard drives, it may get broken or stolen on the trip.   The surface pro is also pretty expensive.
I was hoping for something like a google nexus 7 that weighs closer to .6lbs and costs about $300.

ShadySue I have a netbook I've used before but I was trying to get something that would be more useful and even smaller.  My netbook is horrible, I can barely surf the web with that thing because of how slow it is and how short the battery life is.  I think it has 2gb ram also.

Ankya:  Probably two 256gb hard drives would work or maybe 6x64gb sd cards if there is a deal on those.   I had looked at thumb drives before but I must have missed the one I'm seeing now, 128gb for $50.  Four of those might work.

I have a nexus 7 and it's a great device. Use it regularly for Photo-shootings (Wifi tethering).
I have never used it to back-up data (it also only has 32gb) but apparently you can use the micro USB port to adapt stuff like an SD-reader etc.
Just how would you get the data onto an external hard-drive? You will def. not be able to power one with the tablets usb port!

I also think the only real solution would be an 11 inch ultrabook!

« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2013, 09:09 »
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« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2013, 09:50 »
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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2013, 10:39 »
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This is a cheap device but I'm not sure if it would be good for transferring raw files from a card to a USB stick?
http://www.ravpower.com/ravpower-rp-wd01-filehub-3000mah-power-bank.html

Edit:  Found a review of the Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless.  Looks like the same product and looks like it can be used to transfer raw files from an SD card to a USB stick.

I've seen the wireless hard drives but there isn't much information on how they will work for my purposes.  Most people use them to stream movies or music and not for downloading data, I've seen people say you really need to hook it up to a computer to move data onto it.  Since they are powered I wonder if they will work connected to a tablet that normally wouldn't be able to power a hd?

I saw in the reviews that some people were using it to transfer files.  One said in the field but that should be quite similar to on the road :)
Here's the quote
"I need to be able to back up critical data 'in the field' where there may be no power or mobile signal. It could be many files of typically 25 - 30 Mb at a pop. This does it !"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-98243-MediaShare-Wireless/dp/B00CZ0P0PS
Those file sizes seem similar to raw file sizes.  I ordered one but it will take about a week to get it.  I'll report here if it works.
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« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2013, 11:00 »
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« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2013, 13:52 »
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Why not just carry a lot of SD cards? They are pretty cheap these days.

« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2013, 22:45 »
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I have an asus notepad which has a real keyboard and sufficient power to run all my normal photo stuff

I also use ms skydrive which gives me an additional way to store images and run all my office software - and then all my db, excel etc are already up to date when I return home

Uncle Pete

« Reply #22 on: October 08, 2013, 12:41 »
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This is going to sound odd, but a friend does this. (I can't because at the races I might shoot a few cards full a day)

Buy numerous cheap SD cards and don't transfer anything, just take the full cards home.

Done and it's cheaper than you think. Don't need a tablet or laptop and it's light and small.

8GB cards, $1 a Gigabyte, how's that for cheap? You run out? You buy another card... This is the ultimate cheap way to carry your photos. No batteries, no computer, nothing, and pretty darn secure.

SanDisk 16 GB Class 4 SDHC $11 !

What he does is even stranger. Copies the files to hard drive and files the original cards. I'm still using CF memory so it's a bit more expensive and I run 500 and up GB a year in photos, no video, just still pictures. But if I had all cameras that used SD, I'd start buying cheap 16GB cards and stop using electronic or hard drive as primary backup. Original cards as backup, electronic as working files.

Why not just carry a lot of SD cards? They are pretty cheap these days.

Yup, that's the way I see it now.

ps I have an ASUS netbook for travel, built in card reader. Portable USB hard drive. I'm considering next trip, no hard drive, just buy a card wallet.

« Reply #23 on: October 08, 2013, 18:55 »
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« Reply #24 on: October 08, 2013, 19:18 »
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This is going to sound odd, but a friend does this. (I can't because at the races I might shoot a few cards full a day)

Buy numerous cheap SD cards and don't transfer anything, just take the full cards home.

Done and it's cheaper than you think. Don't need a tablet or laptop and it's light and small.

8GB cards, $1 a Gigabyte, how's that for cheap? You run out? You buy another card... This is the ultimate cheap way to carry your photos. No batteries, no computer, nothing, and pretty darn secure.

SanDisk 16 GB Class 4 SDHC $11 !

What he does is even stranger. Copies the files to hard drive and files the original cards. I'm still using CF memory so it's a bit more expensive and I run 500 and up GB a year in photos, no video, just still pictures. But if I had all cameras that used SD, I'd start buying cheap 16GB cards and stop using electronic or hard drive as primary backup. Original cards as backup, electronic as working files.

Why not just carry a lot of SD cards? They are pretty cheap these days.

Yup, that's the way I see it now.

ps I have an ASUS netbook for travel, built in card reader. Portable USB hard drive. I'm considering next trip, no hard drive, just buy a card wallet.
SD cards still need to be backed up so I'd still need a tablet or laptop.  Costs for 1TB worth of SD cards would be around $750 compared to $100 for 2 500gb hard drives.  For $100 I would only be able to back up 64gb with SD cards.  Also carrying 30 SD cards doesn't seem very practical either.

Why ask the question when you already know the answer? Every suggestion, by well-meaning contributors, you have immediately dismissed. Were you expecting a new technology to be invented especially for your particular needs or what?


 

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