Never run out of memory.

I'm going travelling for 10 months through South America and the Himalayas and want to make sure that I can send my photos back so I don't run out of memory. I looked a flickr, etc and found that they don't support .raw files (well they do, but they convert them into .jpg so I lose the flexibility of .raw when I get home to finish them off).

Current thoughts:
Email
- Email is out since I will be downloading several gig.

Webspace
I thought I could upload files to some webspace and get somebody to download it on the other side, thus clearing it out quickly and being able to confirm that the files are safe before I wipe the card.

Method - I plan to use a plug and pray USB card reader then upload to some webspace, but I assume the machine would need some kind of FTP capability
- I am not convinced that your average internet cafe would have this, but are there any sites that offer a web based interface to upload any file type to webspace?
- Any other thoughts about how I could achieve the same thing?
- Any websites that you know of that will store raw files a la flickr?

CDs
Also thought that I could burn a copy of the files to CD and send it home through the post. Once I have confirmation then I can wipe the card. I'd also keep a copy of the CD with me just in case I got desperate to wipe the card.

Trim down and review shots
I could set the camera to take .raw and .jpg shots then once at an internet cafe I could use a plug and pray USB reader to check out how good the shots are and ditch the bad ones, thus reclaiming space on the card. Of course I then end up with fewer shots per card.

I plan to take around 4 or 5 2gb cards, but am concerned that if I can't edit them down then I will run out of space. I find the lcd screen to hide imperfections; i.e., I can pick out the really bad ones, but without a computer I can't tell if the focus is perfect or just off.

Any advice would be wonderful!

Cheers,

You might also consider a portable DVD burner; there are several that function as stand-alone card reader/burner combos. I use an Addonics MFR which will burn cards directly to CD or DVD, and can be connected to a TV to view pictures either from the disc or the card.

Jon wrote in post #2399493
You might also consider a portable DVD burner; there are several that function as stand-alone card reader/burner combos. I use an Addonics MFR which will burn cards directly to CD or DVD, and can be connected to a TV to view pictures either from the disc or the card.

IMHO, a DVD burner is a much better idea than a CD burner, given that many of today's memory cards won't fit on a single CD, and some devices won't deal well with continuing the backup from one CD to another.

Have Fun,

Thanks for the posts guys. I am travelling light thus will not be able to take a burner with me; my thought was to use a burner at an internet cafe - abviously I agree from a storage point of view DVD wins the day. Apologies though, I can see I am the source of the misunderstanding here.

Basically I'm not looking to take more kit since I have to carry it. I'm planning to take Camera, tripod, clothes, sleeping bag & hiking boots.

I should probably change this post to focus on the uploading option, but I am open to other thoughts.

Cheers

You can always load a copy of Filezilla, a free Windows FTP app over at SourceForge, onto a thumb drive.

I understand the minimalist approach to what you carry. If it were me, I would at least take a compact USB card reader, though (and hope all the PCs you encounter are new enough to accept it).

Have Fun,

what about a plug and play card reader and then up load them to a 8 gig portable hd they are tiny

just a idea

Dom

I travelled for 6 months,

only had a p+s with me, but best thing I found to do was load them onto a CD (In your case it would be a dvd!) and then send them home, I burned two copies and then when it arrived home I knew it was ok, to fling the other one, and travel even lighter,

this id definetly your best option, you dont wanna carrya bout more gear than you need.

just my 2p

You can't bring a laptop with an adequate hard drive? Even if you could find a place to host those files you're going to spend a LONG time uploading days and days worth of raw files. Seriously, bring a laptop with you with an internal hard drive at least 100GB. Also pick up an external 2.5" hard drive case from newegg or something (about 10 dollars) and throw another 80GB disk in there to backup your images. 10 months is a long time and I don't think it's realistic to expect to upload all of your pictures somewhere for retreival later. Just my 2 cents. Burning DVD's is great too but I would feel more comfortable with my data mirrored on two hard drives.

When travelling in areas where I know I can find an Internet Cafe I have DVDs burned regularly.

Have you looked at an Epson 3000/5000? It should do the job and still be small enough not to be a burden to you.

...or a hyperdrive? you can install a HD of any size you want, and they are relatively small. As for internet options, i would say smugmug, but you run into the same problems with not accepting RAW files.

Given the hit-or-miss reliability of hyperdrives, i went with a Nexto: CF OTG portable storage unit. PetKal also highly recommended it (could've been pekkal). I put a $40gb hDD in mine, and I spent about $175 total. I've used it a couple of times just to make sure it works, and so far it's performed flawlessly. I'm going to India in two weeks an plan to take a least 10-15gb of photos, and there's no way I was going to buy that much CF storage.
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get the pro edition, and itll send your any files from a remote place to your home computer. I'm doing this right now (I'm back in the States for 3months, and my desktop computer is at home). Its also nice when i want new music on my iPod or need some file off my desktop too.

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get the pro edition, and itll send your any files from a remote place to your home computer. I'm doing this right now (I'm back in the States for 3months, and my desktop computer is at home). Its also nice when i want new music on my iPod or need some file off my desktop too.

dosnt your computer have to be on all the time for this to work