ashapiro Posted August 30, 2007 Share #1 Posted August 30, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I mentioned sometime ago that I'll be traveling to Berlin and London in a little over a month. My previous post had to do with good lightweight lenses for the M8. Because of the weight, I'd just as soon not lug a laptop. Does anyone know of a good "card reader direct to mass storage" device? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Hi ashapiro, Take a look here Card reader to mass storage. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
MarcRochkind Posted August 31, 2007 Share #2 Posted August 31, 2007 Try this: Epson Won't show M8 raws, so I shoot raw+JPEG so I have something to see. --Marc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted August 31, 2007 Share #3 Posted August 31, 2007 I have a feeling that the problem really belongs to a time when memory cards were of very limited capacity, and expensive. Much has changed since then. I have just returned from a trip to northern Lapland – admittedly not as lively as London or Berlin, but pretty photogenic nevertheless – and took along two 2 GB cards and used only one! Chimp and edit at the day's end, lock a full card and keep it in its little container, and a few cards will go a long way. And just as with film, you can buy more on the way; London is not the Arctic tundra. There is a matter here which is a little bit sensitive. There is a religious cult going which contends that no other file format is admissible but DNG, and that using JPEG is a closet sin, to be admitted to only with appropriate shuffling of feet. Now I believe in suiting my working methods to the purpose. DNG for normal travel pictures is megalomania; you could just as well bring a tripod and a dark focusing cloth (and a bowler hat for an extra lens shade). A few good 30x40 and 40x50cm prints hang on my walls – the majority of them done from medium format negs – but I do not paper my living space with them. JPEG fine is good enough for prints of normal size, no matter what the esthetic poseurs say. It is easy enough to switch over to DNG, or DNG plus JPEG Fine, if you want to hang the subject above the couch, but space there is limited. Dirty Harry shot dirty little punks with a .44 Magnum which was grotesque overkill and all knowledgeable pistoleros found the notion ridiculous. The .44 is for emergency use on grizzlies. But maybe he needed a penis extender. I don't think you need one. The opinionated old man from the Age of the .38 Special (now scurrying for cover, but I don't think the returning fire will be very effective). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
butchhul Posted August 31, 2007 Share #4 Posted August 31, 2007 Might take a look at this. HyperDrive Memory Card Backup Device Won't show images, but fast and versatile. butch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdrmd Posted August 31, 2007 Share #5 Posted August 31, 2007 There is nothing wrong with jPegs except they are compressed and can not be as easily corrected. I am speaking specifically about exposure and White balance. When shooting raw, it is simple to correct these parameters ( and , of course, many others as well). As far as storage goes, you can use an iPod to store files. There is a loader on the market that I think is made by Belkin, that lets you load directly to the iPod. I had one and it was very,very slow, but it did work. Epson and Jobo make storage devices also, DR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted August 31, 2007 Share #6 Posted August 31, 2007 Whenever I shoot Jpeg+DNG I see the Jpeg's are just NOT acceptable. Color is off and it is darker then the DNG. And for the fact that you can't correct a jpeg as easily as you can a DNG. If Jpeg works for you then fine. I'd rather have a RAW file I can work with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Sanchez Posted August 31, 2007 Share #7 Posted August 31, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here's what i've been using and am very pleased with it, except that it is slow to copy images and the battery doesn't last as long as i'd like. http://secure.serverlab.net/shop/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=7100&Category_Code=FlashPac&Store_Code=T00107 another option would be to bring along three or four transcend 150x 4gig cards and just keep your pics on them as you shoot. however, three or four cards will end up costing almost as much as the wolverine flashpac with a whole lot more storage capacity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hookeye Posted August 31, 2007 Share #8 Posted August 31, 2007 Why use a mass storage device at all? If capacity is your problem - then just bring a couple of extra SD cards. If data security is your problem - then I would personally trust keeping the data on the SD card rather than on some other storage device. The SD cards are pretty robust and have been known to survive going through washing machines, spin dry cycles, tumble driers and being run over by a car without loss of data. Just be careful with static electricity. I just keep the SD cards in an anti-static container and have had no problems - never. http://thefuntimesguide.com/2006/09/memory_cards.php Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashapiro Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share #9 Posted September 1, 2007 Thank you all for your advice and suggestions. I back up many of my photographs on an external hard drive connected to my computer and that is beginning to fill up. I've decided to go for the Wolverine flash 100 gb and use it on my trip and then at home as it's needed. I very much appreciate being part of this community of M8 users. Arthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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