[pct-l] pct-l] Photos and Media Storage

[abiegen at cox.net]

Psycho,

You're probably lucky that the CD burner is broken. That thing would have been too heavy to carry and too fragile to put in your bounce bucket. 

I got a new camera for my PCT adventure this year not so much because I was totally dissatisfied with my old camera but because the newer models can support the higher memory SD cards. So I got a 16 gig card which will hold a large number of pictures - 12megapixel at 1.5megs each, 1000megs to a gig = over 10,000 pictures (if my math is correct). And the good news is that there is no weight difference between a 16 gig card and a 500 meg card. You do have to make sure that your camera supports the larger SD cards though.

TrailHacker


Message: 8 
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:40:49 -0700 (PDT) 
From: Roger Binschus <roger_pct at yahoo.com> 
Subject: [pct-l] Photos and Media Storage 
To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
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I am curious what other thru-hikers do when it comes to preserving the data of 
the photo's taken along the trail. 
 
For example, last hike I had a small point and shoot camera, and the resolution 
wasn't that great, so with a few Memory Cards I was able to make it through with 
the occasional stop at photo-shops to transfer Data to CDs. 
 
This time around I was planning on using a portable CD burner that another hiker 
used last time, but I just discovered it no longer works. I have a better 
camera, which has larger image-file sizes now, and need to figure out what my 
best options are. What are tricks that some people use to preserve their data? 
 
Thank you, 
Psycho