Digital Photo Storage w/out Laptop?

[Mickey_Maniac]

Just wondering what everyone uses to store thier digital photo's if you dont have a laptop available. I really dont want to pay through the nose to have them burnt to a CD. I know I can buy multiple memory cards, but what other options are there?

 

[civileng68]

Just wondering what everyone uses to store thier digital photo's if you dont have a laptop available. I really dont want to pay through the nose to have them burnt to a CD. I know I can buy multiple memory cards, but what other options are there?

Well here's what you do to avoid paying them to burn a CD.

go to the Walgreen on W. Irlo Bronson Blvd (or any Walgreens that has a photo center).

You can take a blank CD and burn it yourself on their machine, or print photos and keep the photos. I had to do that while I was there this last time (burn my own CD). I dont know how much Disney charges to burn the CD but it may not be that bad.

Other than the options you listed and I listed, I really dont know of anything. I just went out, spent the money and bought a 1 GB memory card along with my 512MB card I already had, and guess what, I used every photo up on both cards. I do have a 5MP camera though and do use it on the highest settings.

 

[Hippychickali]

Does anyone actually know how much Disney charges to burn your photos to a CD?

Ali

 

[marriedmarylander]

Get a large disk for your camera. My disk holes over 250 pictures so I'm sure you can just get a larger disk and not have to change it.

 

[mommystieg]

I posted a similiar question on one of the other forums and I was told it was something like $11.99 or $12.99.

 

[HollyJoy]

Not really sure other than going outside of WDW and taking it to a drugstore to put on a CD. We did the laptop thing, which was awesome!

 

[Mousenut8]

You could get a digital wallet or x-drive, they come in various sizes 10, 20, 30gb or more. There are also portable CD burners that can copy your flash cards to CD. There are reviews of these products at steves digicams. Hope this helps a little.

 

[Hippychickali]

I'm really paranoid about erasing all of my photos by switching the memory cards or having them burned on CD and the CD not working. I'm just borrowing someone's digital so I don't have much experience with them.

Ali

 

[Mickey_Maniac]

You could get a digital wallet or x-drive, they come in various sizes 10, 20, 30gb or more. There are also portable CD burners that can copy your flash cards to CD. There are reviews of these products at steves digicams. Hope this helps a little.

I had already looked at the reviews on Steve's website, but I was wondering if anyone had any real world experience with some of these products.

 

[wdwoldtimer]

I know someone who has the Clik drive and says it works great. Personally, if I had to go without laptop, which I never do, I'd go with a couple extra memory cards. Prices are plummeting on them. You can pick up 256M for around $25. 512M for around $45. And when they have rebates going on, even cheaper.

 

[Alacrity]

I use an X-Drive when I travel and have had (almost) no problems with it. The one I have is similar to the VP-2030 (probably an upgrade to this model, the X-Drive II, VP-2060). I have not had any problems using it in the field but I did have a problem with it reading Sandisk Ultra cards when I started using one of those. A firmware update fixed that. The only other problem that I have had is getting it to recognise another hard drive that I have tried to use. If I were to get another I would get one that would allow viewing of stored photos, either on it's own screen or on a T.V.

Here is another site with some infomration on a number of devices...

http://fhoude34.free.fr/PortableHD.htm

 

[JKanownik]

The cheapest route is to buy a larger or more memory cards (unless you have a camera that uses xD cards). If you watch sales and rebates you can get a 256 MB card for $10 or a 512 MB card for $20. For my 3.1 MP camera the 512 MB card on standard compression will hold 485 pictures.

-Josh

 

[capnho]

I'd go the additional memory card route myself, since prices have come down so much recently. If you happen to own an iPod, there are attachements that you can use to download pictures from a digital camera to the iPod's hard drive. Both Belkin and Apple offer these types of attachments.

 

[pbaran]

Our family spent 2 weeks in Orlando in December '04 & I wanted to make sure I was prepared to take, & store thousands of digital pics. I had bought a "Roadstor" stand-alone portable CD burner several months previous, & my plan was to burn CD's as we went along. I also had enough memory cards to store about 1500 pics at highest resolution for a 3.2 megapixel camera. Every night, I backed up all of the pics from that day onto CD's using my "Roadstor". Being a skeptic by nature, I then took my freshly burnt CD's to a nearby Walgreens & put them in their do-it-yourself photo kiosk to verify that that pics had been burnt properly by my portable burner. I was NEVER dissappointed... worked like a charm! I THEN comfortably cleared my memory cards. In the end, we had taken over 6,000 pictures between our 2 digital cameras. I ended up with more than 25 back-up CD's of our trip.
I would highly recommend the "Roadstor" portable CD burner as an alternative to taking a laptop computer. It is quite compact & can also be connected to a television & used to view your pics on the CD. I paid $329 Cdn for this unit.

A friend of mine was recently at Disneyworld & took over 2,000 digital pictures, & used a different solution. He went to a local WalMart with his memory cards & had CD's burnt for just a few dollars & then viewed them there to be sure that all of the pics downloaded properly before he cleared his memory cards. He also said that he had gone to another shop that charged him a ridiculous amount to burn a CD from a memory card. He stuck with WalMart.

Peter B

 

[bgirldeb]

Jump drive

You can get a jump drive for around 30.00.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/ref=dp_sr_00/104-3954664-0445546

We have a sandisk cruzer that works really well, but you probably have to use it in conjunction with a computer. Not sure if you can dowload directly do the drive.