transferring photos from memory card

[henrydog]

Hi

To save buying another memory card for my camera does anyone know the best place to go to get photos transferred onto CD and approx cost, and do they do it while you wait.

Many thanks

 

[Frantasmic]

The cheapest way is on your own computer, if you have a CD burner.

Most Wal-Marts, Wal-Greens, and Targets can perform this service as well.

 

[henrydog]

yes i do have my own computer but it will be in the UK and i will be in Florida , just wanted to transfer them so i can fill it up again. Any idea of cost at Walmarts ?

 

[cabanafrau]

IMO buy a memory card -- you can get great deals online! The money you would spend transferring your photos is gone forever. The memory card is always yours. Besides, the time you would spend doing that on your vacation is lost forever as well!

 

[Jasminesmommy]

the kodak store at MGM does it. i forget the price i think it was $15. i would assume all the kodak stores may do it but for sure at MGM

 

[Dan Murphy]

With the very low cost of memory today, you could probably buy a 1 gig card for the cost of each transfer. My suggestion is to buy a few more cards. JMO.

 

[garris3404]

I used Walgreens last February. It wasn't that expensive, but it was time consuming. I had 2 and 1/2 GBs. I made 3 trips to Walgreens (I took 2500 pictures over 2 weeks). I will bring my laptop next time.

I would opt for more memory. Memory prices have dropped. I would want to miss out on some great shots because you were low on memory.

 

[Foladar]

I bought myself a 1gb SD card last week for $20 (with $12 MIR too on top of that) .. was tempted to get another card, but I think just one will be fine for us.

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

Just buy a new card...it's going to cost more to deal with getting them to CD at WDW. If you really don't need it, resell it on eBay after.

It's going to cost almost as much to transfer them just once, and then you have to trust that it all worked right and there are no errors found when you get home.

Besides the time waiting for the darn thing, at $15 bucks a whack for every CD it's a waste when for less than the cost of two you can just get an additional card.

Having an additional card has other benefits as well - memory cards DO fail sometimes. You don't want to get stuck with a bum card (it doesn't happen often, but it always is a possibility) you don't have to spend $100 to buy the super-overpriced ones at WDW.

NED

 

[KYCruiseCrazy]

http://www.inoi.com/English/hd182.asp this link is what i used for my memory card while at wdw last year. the cost was close to $200 at best buy about it will hold 20 gigabytes of photos. this way you clear your card daily without leaving WDW and losing great vacation time. and you get to take more photos. i use it to store all my photos. DW says its worth it too. IMO

 

[disneyaggie]

I had my photos downloaded onto 2 CD's at MK's Kodak store and it cost about 12.95 a CD. However, the CM's heard about a bad experience I had the day before (even though I was laughing about it), and they let me have the 2nd CD for free!

This was SOOOO much more cost effective than buying a new 1GB at their shop for $106.00 (tax not included).

 

[marivaid]

You can also buy a little gizmo that reads memory cards and stores whatever's on it (pics,videos...). Kinda like an external hard drive. You take your pics during the day, transfer them into the gizmo at night and when you get home just plug the gizmo on your computer (USB) and they're all here. Now there's gotta be a real name besides gizmo but I cant recall it. Mine's called Jobo Giga One 40 Go.

Forgot to say it costs about the same as a 2GB card.

 

[Robo]

http://www.inoi.com/English/hd182.asp this link is what i used for my memory card while at wdw last year. the cost was close to $200 at best buy about it will hold 20 gigabytes of photos. this way you clear your card daily without leaving WDW and losing great vacation time. and you get to take more photos. i use it to store all my photos. DW says its worth it too. IMO

I don't quite get the logic or the economy.

You prefer to spend $200 on an ipod-sized HD when you could spend about $15 -$30 for a 256 MB (or even 512 MB) card these days?

A consideration is the "all your eggs in one basket" theory.

With the large HD, if you lose it, it gets stolen, or it stops operating... ALL will be lost.

If you have several smaller chips (and don't carry them all at one time) you will at least have "something" to show for all your photo work if something happens to one or two of them

 

[wic0721]

Hi

To save buying another memory card for my camera does anyone know the best place to go to get photos transferred onto CD and approx cost, and do they do it while you wait.

Many thanks

I know they will do this at Epcot and I think MGM. We had our memory card transferred to a disk at the camera shop in Epcot in May. I think they charged us around $20.00.

 

[BlindTyldak]

Thanks so much for mentioning that they transfer to CD at the parks. We already have 2 2 gig cards, but I don't have a reason to own more than that, so it's great to know I can get them dumped a few times at the parks. Yay! I can take all the pics I want and not have to worry about wasting money on memory cards I just know will sit the rest of the year!

How long is the wait to get them transferred? If we hit a Kodak shop first thing in the AM, are we talking just a few minutes or so? Long enough for someone else to run and get fastpasses and get back?

 

[WillCAD]

The camera shops at all 4 WDW theme parks will download your pics from memory card to CD for $12.99 per CD, limit 120 pics per CD. Many times it can be done while you wait, but if they get busy you might have to leave your memory card and come back in an hour or two.

The camera shops in MK and MGM, and the Kodak ImageWorks shop in Epcot, all have self-service download machines. Cost is still $12.99 per CD, but I don't know if they limit the number of pics on each CD.

If you have a car, all of the local Walgreens stores have 24-hour photo labs that will download your pics for $3.99 per CD, for as many pics as the CD will hold, usually while you wait.

IMHO, Robo is absolutely right about the "eggs in one basket" theory; no matter how you back up your pics, you should split your pics up somehow in case of disaster so that you won't lose all pics from a single incedent.

 

[Captain_Hook]

Didn't read to the end of the thread, so sorry if this is a repeat...

Each park has a camera care center. (Not the water parks and I am not sure about downtown disney) At each of those centers, they will take your memory stick and transfer it to a cd. It costs roughly 12.77

We did it in MK, Epcot, and Animal Kingdom.

 

[DebIreland]

Here's a link to info from Disney about camera services:
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wd...tail?id=GuestServicesCameraServicesDetailPage

I have read that it costs 12.99 to download just 120 photos to CD. VERY expensive! I've also read that it costs 3.99 at Walmarts to download an unlimited amount to CD! If you don't have transport and have a few hundred photos to download, it might even be more cost-effective to get a cab to Walmarts or elsewhere!

I'm still debating how to transfer mine i.e whether to buy another memory card or not! I have a 1gb with a 5mp camera so I should get 450 or so photos. That's not enough!!! And yet, my holiday budget is shot to hell as it is.

Good luck!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) I agree with several of the above people.
2) Buy a big memory card.
3) We run one 1gb card, plus one 512mb backup for each of two cameras.
4) We did London for two weeks and didn't fill up the 1gb cards.

 

[_chill_]

I guess it depends on the timing... If you've got the time, pickup more memory (Amazon had Kingston 1G SD cards for $13 with no rebate a couple days ago and I picked up two, which put it over their $25 free shipping limit. Combine that with no tax and it's quite a deal! ) If you don't have the time to get them beforehand, you might be able to score a deal at the local Fry's or CompUSA. Another option is a portable hard drive (i.e. photo bank). I've got an 80G unit I put together for about $80 that allows me to link with my camera, press a button, and copy all the pics to the HD. You always have the WDW CD transfer in a pinch, but planning ahead is what DIS is all about right?