On Friday, November 25, 2011 12:08 PM, "John Celio" <[email protected]> wrote: > Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long > trips? > > Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company > (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm > hoping to be able to take another week or two off for a bit of a vacation > while I'm down there. > > My little Chromebook only has a 16gb drive, so that won't do. Nor will my > old Alienware laptop, which is effing massive and just way too slow. I'm > thinking I just need to get a small laptop with a big-ish hard drive > (say, > 250gb+), or get one of those portable hard drives with card slots you can > dump stuff into (and take the Chromebook for internet), but I'm really > curious what frequent travellers think is the best solution.
You've probably got more answers than you need but I'll add mine anyway. Not that it's much different than many others.... If I'm travelling for more than a few days I take my Dell laptop (an Inspiron 1525 with 250GB hard drive) and an external hard drive (currently a 1.5TB Western Digital Essentials). Each evening I transfer the days' images to defined folders on the laptop and also to a mirrored folder system on the external drive. I then import the images into Studioline Photo Classic on my laptop (Studioline is my image cataloging software - sort of Lightroom Lite) and do some basic work on the metadata (location, keywords etc), although most of that will wait until I get home. Every few days I'll burn the latest batch of images to DVD and post them home when it's convenient to do so. When I get home I transfer the images and the Studioline database to my main PC. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- 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.
