At 4:48 PM +0100 7/7/06, John Macdonald wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for a portable storage device I
can use with a Canon 5D.
I intend to use raw files and save from a CF card. It would help if
it was tough enough for a dusty 4x4 camping safari in Africa!
I will be away for four weeks and this is the first time I have
taken a digital camera. Any advice on dust?
Many thanks,
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John Macdonald
Hi John,
I recently had a 4 week trip to China and for the first time only
took digital on a vacation, so I didn't want to take a laptop either.
I got two Nexto units, and then put in a Fujitsu MVH2100At drive in
each (100Gb). My wife put one unit in her suitcase, and I put one in
mine. Insurance.
The reason I got this unit was transfer speed and the lack of need to
recharge while on the trip. Speed allowed me to transfer multi-Gigs
as often as I wanted to two drives, and still have time to do other
things. :-)
The lack of need to recharge meant that there was one less thing to
worry about every evening (I took a charger, but it is tiny), and I
could use it wherever. It also has USB/Firewire connections, so
transfer to a computer at home is reasonable. I took about 80Gb of
photos in 4 weeks, and everything worked beautifully. I'll use this
again whenever I don't want to take a laptop; actually, I'll take
them with a laptop as well, as an additional 100Gb storage with
redundancy is great.
The site:
http://fhoude34.free.fr/PortableHD_Main.htm
has some info, and links on peoples experience with this unit, as
well as others.
I bought one from:
http://www.powerinnumbers.com.au/
I put the pieces together - it comes with a screwdriver -, charged it
up and tried it out. The internal battery allowed 35Gb of data
transfer from Sandisk Ultra II 2Gb cards. With the external it took
the full 100Gb. The Ultra cards transferred in 3min 20 sec., the
Extreme in 3min even.
The unit is very small, but still seems quite rugged.
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