P.J. Alling wrote: >On 11/17/2014 5:20 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> On my last trip I did backup onto USB thumb drives. My Android tablet >> has both an SD card slot and a USB port, so I just took the card out >> of the camera and plugged it into the tablet, attached the USB thumb >> drive and used the tablet to copy the files. Easy, simple and >> lightweight. >> >I've thought about this since yesterday, if you're transferring the >image files to reuse the SD cards then why not just carry enough SD >cards to cover your expected shooting. Good quality thumb drives seem >to cost almost as much as good quality SD cards. If you're actually >doing a backup and carrying the thumb drives and keeping the images on >the SD cards as well that's a different story, it matches your equipment.
Cheap (good enough for backup) thumb drives are much less expensive than high quality SD cards. Plus, I already have a bunch of them :) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
