On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:41:33 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote: >I was in Europe mainly for a conference, including two presentations >that I had to give. So I didn't shoot as much as I would have liked - >only 23 rolls. Since I cannot travel with any more gear (like a notebook >pc), I don't think this amount of shooting would have been possible with >a digital SLR. How many expensive memory cards would I have needed? >Probably enough to equal the cost of a second dSLR.
I have just bought a second memory card and and X drive to go with my istD. The X drive has a 60 gig drive and slots for flash cards memory sticks and other cards. You can get them with varying sizes of drive. You just plug in the card and press copy and it copies it to a directory on the drive. You then plug the x drive in via the USB2 port on your PC and you can access everything as an external hard drive. It has rechargable batteries (comes with a car charger and a mains charger) which last for 1.6 hours of use. It measures 14x8x3 cm (5.5x3.25x1.25 inches) and is very light weight. It's the prefect thing if you plan on doing a lot of shooting and don't want the weight of a full laptop. I think I have now come to the end of the road for new toys for a while. It's a good thing I can't think of anything else I want except for Bianca and Cindy to model for me, and THAT I start organising on Wednesday. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
