Digital BW, The Print

Jerry-

There are many options you can take. You can either take a portable 
laptop on your trip away, or you can choose to use a small portable 
device that does more of an archiving function, like a Digital Wallet 
or an Image Bank. I just returned from a 5-week trip to east Africa, 
where I took somewhere around 3,000 images with my Canon D30. I use 
an Image Bank (http://www.simacorp.com/photo.html#digital), and I 
purchased a 40GB hard drive to fit inside. I chose the Digital Walley 
over other products, because many of our trips involve camping in the 
back country, where there is no ability to recharge the internal 
battery of the units that use proprietary batteries. The Image Bank 
can run off of 6 AA batteries, 110v/220v/240v and 12v or 24v auto.

I have found the best resource for learning more about digital 
storage is the forums at dpreview.com. Here is a link:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1023

Enjoy!



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@b...> 
wrote:
> Jerry,
> 
> I'm considering the new Fuji S2 for a move into digicams. I know 
most of the
> advantages and disadvantages versus film, but something no-one 
seems to
> mention is storage of the image files. If you're going to get the 
max out of
> the camera, you're going to save a 12 million pixel image in raw 
format or
> largest tiff, at about 50 MB per image. On my last holiday I took 
about
> 13/14 films (36 each) so that would be getting on for 500 images at 
50MB per
> image = 25GB!! So I would have to buy a portable computer or hard-
drive to
> store them on while I'm away, and then instead of putting them all 
in my
> filing cabinet until I want to scan an image, I've got to keep them 
all on a
> computer, until I might want them one day. Copying just that batch 
of images
> to CD is going to use about 40 CD's and take hours. Using DVD-R will
> probably take just as long; fewer disks but costing far more.
> 
> How are you and others coping with this storage problem that is 
only going
> to get worse as camera resolutions increase, unless better lossless
> compression systems appear?
> 
> Bob Frost.