Oci-One Kanubi wrote:

I'm leaving Friday for three weeks of boating in the Rockies, and I
need a new water-resistant camera; digital with a lotta memory because
we'll be driving hard and sleeping (and cooking) in National Forests so
I don't know how often I'll get to a place that can download to CD for
me [1]. This will be for on-river fotos, and must survive the
occasional full immersion.


[1] I'll also need suggestions about places in Colorado, Wyoming, and
Montana that will download from the camera to a CD. Drugstores?
Libraries? Internet cafes?


Kanubi:

We just completed a 3 week vacation and faced the same problem of how
to handle the photos. Our solution was to use a Flash drive. A 1 GB
Flash drive is reasonable at most big box stores. When we stayed at
hotel chains, we used their business center computers to transfer from
the camera to the drive. Holiday Inn's were best for this. They had a
nice free business center that allowed USB data transfers between
removable drives without encountering any security issues and nearly
every major city we visited had one. Note this was outside of the US,
so things here might be different.

The other thing we did was to load them out of the camera and email
them to yourself. This did not give us the warm and fuzzy feeling that
a Flash drive or CD did however. (I trust the Flash drive more than
the CD - no surface defect issues) You would have to use an ISP that
would give you 1 GB or so of storage, or you could leave a PC setup to
automatically pull down the emails as they were posted. And the
security software in both the PC and the Mail servers really dragged
down the speed of the transfer.

If I had to do it again, I would find a small and lightweight old
laptop with USB capable of running XP and use this. This would
eliminate the dependancy on others doing this. You could just leave it
in your vehicles when not in use. And you could use the Flash drive as
a small and convienent backup.

Blakely
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Blakely LaCroix (# 86)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The best adventure is yet to come.