memory card question

[Jeninpa]

OH...I'd also recomend getting another card or two...I don't think the SD cards are to spendy compaired to some of the other cards out there....so stock up

I have 1 1gb, 3 512mb & 1 128mb. So nobody remembers or knows for sure what happens if you want all the pics from a 1gb card onto a cd?

 

[ericamanda01]

I HIGHLY recommend either bringing a laptop, a photo transfer hard drive, an iPod with the photo transfer connector or copying the photos off every night at Shutters.

Just read "Heartbroken family needs your help" where the family's camera was dropped on the last night and they lost every photo.

This is the perfect reason to make sure you back up your photos during a trip. I have a 4GB microdrive in my camera and can take 1100 photos at highest resolution and still bring my laptop and download each night when I go on vacation. That way, I have two copies....if the card gets damaged, everything is already on my laptop except for what was taken since the previous night.

What if your camera falls into the pool, or worse yet, drops overboard? What if it gets stolen or is lost?

Having a week's worth of photos sitting in the camera with no other copies is just asking for a huge disappointment if something happens.

Mini Hard disk solution:

We have this and LOVE it! During our Sept 04 honeymoon, we were so bogged down with other details that we didn't think about the card before we left for our trip. We ended up having to delete pictures just to have room for more each day. Well not this time! We used the IPOD attachment for our Alaska cruise and it was great. We never filled our card. And it only takes a second per picture to transfer.

 

[LCTsMom]

I HIGHLY recommend either bringing a laptop, a photo transfer hard drive, an iPod with the photo transfer connector or copying the photos off every night at Shutters.

Just read "Heartbroken family needs your help" where the family's camera was dropped on the last night and they lost every photo.

This is the perfect reason to make sure you back up your photos during a trip. I have a 4GB microdrive in my camera and can take 1100 photos at highest resolution and still bring my laptop and download each night when I go on vacation. That way, I have two copies....if the card gets damaged, everything is already on my laptop except for what was taken since the previous night.

What if your camera falls into the pool, or worse yet, drops overboard? What if it gets stolen or is lost?

Having a week's worth of photos sitting in the camera with no other copies is just asking for a huge disappointment if something happens.

Thanks for this tip! I found a Digital Photo Bank at circuitcity.com that I'm going to get to upload my pictures to. I wouldn't have known about it if it weren't for your suggestion! Great idea!

 

[tyedye]

I have 1 1gb, 3 512mb & 1 128mb. So nobody remembers or knows for sure what happens if you want all the pics from a 1gb card onto a cd?

Sorry I can't help answer this. I brought our laptop to transfer and burn my own cd's and our friends forgot the cord to connect to the laptop so they ended up using Shutters to transfer their pics to cd. The memory cards they had wre 256 mb and 128 mb and Shutters would not put the pics from both cards on one cd, they had to purchase one cd per memory card.

Perhaps someone else knows how Shutters handles memory cards greater than the size of a cdr (700 mb). (I have not heard of Shutters putting the pics on a dvdr only a cdr but maybe that is what they do.) Anyone know?

 

[GooFy_4_DisnEy]

I recently bought my 2nd digital camera and I love taking pictures of my daughter doing whatever, I can take 5 pictures in a second, so I can go back ad choose the best one(s). I have started buying the memory cards for our 2 week vacation at WDW and the Wonder, I have been looking at various methods to transfer and re-use the memory cards and I like the portable HD idea but Costco has this item too: Wolverine 80GB MVP Multi Media Portable Storage/Player
I am going to find a cheaper one hopefully?

 

[Jeninpa]

I recently bought my 2nd digital camera and I love taking pictures of my daughter doing whatever, I can take 5 pictures in a second, so I can go back ad choose the best one(s). I have started buying the memory cards for our 2 week vacation at WDW and the Wonder, I have been looking at various methods to transfer and re-use the memory cards and I like the portable HD idea but Costco has this item too: Wolverine 80GB MVP Multi Media Portable Storage/Player
I am going to find a cheaper one hopefully?

Just a word of caution with the 5 pics a second: My old camera and my new one both do this except it is only 3 shots in a row and the photo's that you take this way are normally not high quality photo's. If you want nice portraits or something that you think you'd like an 8x10 of I would not have it on that setting. I usually only use that under sports mode when I am taking pics for example of my youngest jumping in the water so I can catch him in action.

This is not the ocean,LMAO!

 

[GooFy_4_DisnEy]

I havent run into the issue of getting poor pics? I have used the 5 pic burst a few times and the quality has always been great, the only caution I have run into is that it takes a moment to write to the memory card. May depend on camera???
Thank you though!

 

[LCTsMom]

I recently bought my 2nd digital camera and I love taking pictures of my daughter doing whatever, I can take 5 pictures in a second, so I can go back ad choose the best one(s). I have started buying the memory cards for our 2 week vacation at WDW and the Wonder, I have been looking at various methods to transfer and re-use the memory cards and I like the portable HD idea but Costco has this item too: Wolverine 80GB MVP Multi Media Portable Storage/Player
I am going to find a cheaper one hopefully?

I just bought this one, it was on sale too!
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=147572&JSESSIONID=Gqqch74bJ1RWSjPspyMBZhVSvQcSKy!-1436982872!1156197116277

I've been playing with it, it works well for what I need.

 

[LCTsMom]

I havent run into the issue of getting poor pics? I have used the 5 pic burst a few times and the quality has always been great, the only caution I have run into is that it takes a moment to write to the memory card. May depend on camera???
Thank you though!

I've learned that there are Ultra and Extreme memory cards which are faster than others.

 

[jrabbit]

I have a pocket pc as one of my cellphones. It comes with a very small card that doesn't fit my camera. But they make adapters that will make it fit my camera. My plan is to buy net time. Email my pictures to an email account and then I can clear my cards. That way I don't have to lug a laptop this trip.

I don't really think that this is practical. How long will it take to upload oh, let's say 100megabites? Remember, you're on the ship you're not dealing with cable or dsl speeds. Much slower and therefor much longer upload times. I also think that trying to upload pictures through your phone is going to take a long time and you are talking about many, many megabites of pictures, and the price per meg for cellular service is pretty pricey - makes buying an iPod w/ video look pretty inexpensive.

 

[jrabbit]

One thing about Shutters that has not been mentioned on this thread is that they only upload PHOTOS. If your camera takes movies, those will not be uploaded and therefore you should not delete them untill you can get them on a computer somewhere.

1 gig of photos will NOT fit on a CD. You can get around 700 megs max. If you fill your card they will burn the photos onto multiple cds. They also added photo viewing software automatically to the cd (generally speaking - no one needs this).

I tried getting to shutters before I got over 500 or 600 megs to make the transfer easier. Once I had too many pictures and had to deselect them on the machine (and that takes a while) before burning them to 1 CD. I then had to be careful deleting the pic's from my camera.

I have a 5.1 megapixel camera. I usually have it set to 4meg pixels and standard compression because I really can't tell the difference in the quality of the pictures on my 19" flat panel LCD monitor. Printing them off as 4x6 really is not an issue at all. My 4 megapixel mode has an actual file size of anywhere from 900k to 1.4 meg with an average size of 1meg so my 1 gig card holds about 1,000 in this mode.

 

[Jeninpa]

One thing about Shutters that has not been mentioned on this thread is that they only upload PHOTOS. If your camera takes movies, those will not be uploaded and therefore you should not delete them untill you can get them on a computer somewhere.

1 gig of photos will NOT fit on a CD. You can get around 700 megs max. If you fill your card they will burn the photos onto multiple cds. They also added photo viewing software automatically to the cd (generally speaking - no one needs this).

I tried getting to shutters before I got over 500 or 600 megs to make the transfer easier. Once I had too many pictures and had to deselect them on the machine (and that takes a while) before burning them to 1 CD. I then had to be careful deleting the pic's from my camera.

I have a 5.1 megapixel camera. I usually have it set to 4meg pixels and standard compression because I really can't tell the difference in the quality of the pictures on my 19" flat panel LCD monitor. Printing them off as 4x6 really is not an issue at all. My 4 megapixel mode has an actual file size of anywhere from 900k to 1.4 meg with an average size of 1meg so my 1 gig card holds about 1,000 in this mode.

Thanks for that tip about shutters. I can get 1GB SD cards for $20 off a few websites so I guess I'd be better off just buying more cards! My camera does do movies also!

I was wondering how good the resolution of pics are when you select a lower one on your camera. I have like 6 options on mine but only have it on the 2nd one down. I can take 638 pics on my 1GB card. I'm afraid to go any lower than that on the resolution though,lol.

 

[rtphokie]

I have an SD memory card, if it gets full can I have it transfered on a CD at Shutters?

You can buy another memory card for what shutters (or anyone else) charges to burn a CD.

Buy another card or two and then find friend with similar format cards and borrow from them.

The CD burning stations or services are a big rip off IMHO. Not worth the money at all.

 

[Cindy B]

My DH and I both have Photo Ipods. We bought the cable to upload photos from the camera to the ipod.

However, the load time was too slow for my DH's liking..and the viewing quality was not up to par for him as well.

The cable was $29 at the Apple store.

 

[2angelsinheaven]

We always bring our laptop. I take 200+ photos a day sometimes and it's nice to offload them there between daytime/nighttime, etc. Then I don't have as many photos to scroll through, plus with larger memory cards being close to full it can slow down your camera.

A quick hint though, if you want to print any photos out from your cards make sure to do so before the evening of day 2. I had a great shot of Captain Jack I wanted to print and have signed for my little brother well I was told I could do so on that morning, day 3 of the cruise, but when I spent 2 hours putting it back on the card and going down there, I was told no only days 1 and 2. Just a heads up. However in true Disney Style Cristo at Guest Services delivered a signed Captain Jack photo to our room that night as a surprise. Made my day!

 

[Jeninpa]

I never thought of printing some out to have autographed! How much are they to print out? I did read somewhere about taking transparent paper to put in between your pages for signatures then putting the on your photo's when you get home!

 

[LoriS]

Thanks for all the great advice. I am so worried I will not have enough memory for all the pictures I plan to take.

 

[josetann]

I used to take my laptop, but it can be a bit bulky, plus it's hard to hide when you're worried about it walking off (whether in the room, in your car, wherever). So, I got a Dell Axim (a PocketPC). It can take both a CompactFlash and an SD memory card. The largest SD memory card you can currently get is 4GB. The largest CF is 8GB. My camera uses an XD memory card. What I did was get a memory card reader that will convert several memory card formats (including XD) to CompactFlash (in other words, I plug my XD card in this memory card reader, then plug that in as though it was a CompactFlash card). I then offload the pictures from my 1GB or 512MB XD card to my 4GB SD card. If that was to fill up, then I'd just put in the 8GB CF card, transfer from the SD card to the CF, then repeat the whole process. I have a maximum of 15.5GB (4GB SD, 8GB CF, 1GB XD, and 512MB XD), and it'll all fit in my pocket.

A portable hard drive would be fine, even an ipod would be great. Personally, I wanted something to replace my laptop on vacation. With my axim, I can play music, videos, run gps software, go online (with a wifi connection or connect to my cellphone using bluetooth), etc. True, all those programs, music, and videos take up over half of my 8GB CF card, but if we were running out of space for our pictures, I can always delete my mp3s and movies. Pictures take priority.

 

[micmse2003]

We took many videos of our trips. Now that the children are grown, DH refuses to take movies. He told me he was tired of viewing vacations from a camera view finder. Just make sure you enjoy. The memories will always be stored on your memory card in your brain.

 

[Jeanne B]

I would definitely suggest buying more SD cards, they're so cheap these days anyway. Right now buy.com has the Kingston 1GB for $26.95 less $14 mail in rebate and free shipping.