Bob, Another solution might be something like the Apacer Disc Steno CP100 Portable CD Burner. I don't have one but I guess it's easy enough to use (pop in the CF and a blank CD, press go then have a beer) and small enough to reduce the theft risk.
Shipping items back to base is not without risk and, irrespective of the cost of the HD, the thought of loosing GBs of images rather than a CDs worth would put me off using the HD option. Maybe I'm paranoid but we are back to the 'all the eggs in one basket' scenario. Thinking about it, it's true I am paranoid, I prefer to use 512MB CF cards rather than larger 1GB+ for the same reason ;-) Cheers, Karl. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob > Croxford > > However I also shoot on extended travel trips where I envisage digital > capture creating prodigious amounts of material. A laptop, which is > considered essential for downloading files, is an obvious theft target. > Unlike exposed film for instance. Doing some kind of backup which is > easily created and shipped back to base is an important consideration. > I'm not sure how you spend your days after shooting before dawn and > after sunset several days in a row but I get exhausted and would > probably not be up to making meticulous copies onto CD. Dumping whole > folders onto HD strikes me as being much easier. Because of the space > and time savings I see it as an alternative to CDs under certain > conditions. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
