Last trip I used 2 - 8Gb cards and a single 16GB card. Downloaded these to my laptop, but didn't erase until I backed them up at home. That really worked just fine. 32 Gb is getting to be a bit much for my laptop to swallow. Driving next time, so maybe I'll take a portable hard drive. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > As cheap as memory cards are (taking into account that they are > reusable), you could just copy the cards to the netbook and then mail > the card home. > > That would save you the extra step of toting around a DVD burner, and the > DVDs. > > Plus I'm guessing it might be a bit cheaper to mail an sd card > compared to a DVD. > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Paul Ewins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I did a similar thing years back with a Toshiba Libretto running PS6 on >> Windows 2000 in a whole 64mb of Ram. It was slow, but when you are only >> copying files and reviewing the day's shooting it was good enough. The only >> downside was no optical drive as I like to burn copies to DVD and mail them >> home. I like the size of the netbooks (10" screen seems a good compromise) >> but I'd prefer something with the DVD built in. That doesn't seem to exist >> at the moment even although it wouldn't add that much more size or weight. >> We are doing a trip to Hawaii, NY and Quebec later this year so I might look >> into netbooks again before I go. >> >> >> On 13/05/2009, at 4:21 AM, Toine wrote: >> >>> Enabled myself with a MSI Wind netbook, runs 5-6 hours on a >>> batterycharge, has an SDHC card slot, 160 Gb disc and enough power to >>> run Lightroom. Small enough to fit in a normal photobag (10"), about 1 >>> kg and half the price of a 100 Gb imagetank (300 euros)! >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > ~Nick David Wright > http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
