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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

04/08/2007 04:40:56 PM · #1

Going to california in 17 days, while im there im gunna need to dump pictures from my CF cards when they get full. Is there a website or something i can use to store alot of pictures while im there?

RamblinR

Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro

04/08/2007 05:03:08 PM · #2

I'm heading to America in May but I had thought I would just go to a processing shop and pay to have them burned to a CD as I won't have access to a computer all the time.

commendatori

Nikon D3

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

04/08/2007 05:10:48 PM · #3

I've never actually used it, but I've heard good things about PhotoShelter (www.photoshelter.com)

aerogurl

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR

04/08/2007 05:50:10 PM · #4

i dunno about dumping RAW's... but photobucket has always been good to me.. Sign up for a few accts, use Flock, its broswer that uploads many photos at once to photobucket. I have literally thousands of images on photobucket.

scottwilson

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28mm f/2.8

04/08/2007 05:57:19 PM · #5

The problem with using online storage to dump your cards to is that it is so slow. Even with a high speed connection upload speed will be somewhere in the 40 �50 Kbytes/sec. This means you are looking at something like 10 hours just to up load a 2 GB card.

Scott

ladyhawk22

Sony DSLR-A700

Sony SAL-50F14 Normal 50mm f/1.4 Autofocus Lens for the Sony

04/08/2007 06:03:56 PM · #6

Many local pharmacies/drug stores/grocery stores in the US could make you a photo CD off your CF card in about an hour. You just pop it in and out of their little machine and come back later for your CD. Sounds like this might not be a bad idea unless you have steady online access in your travels.

Hope you have a good trip!! :-)

jdannels

Nikon D300s

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

04/08/2007 06:15:57 PM · #7

You could get one of these if you have the money. Wolverine FlashPac external hardrvie/card reader. This one is 40 gigs, but I have one that is 80 gigs, that I found on sale at Fry's for about the same price. It is so great, I never run out of space, and saves from editing shots in camera. If not, I suggest the pharmacy/camera store route.

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/08/2007 06:41:27 PM · #8

I love the Hyperdrive HD80 - just a laptop drive with some firmware in a case (no screen nothing). Every time you insert a card it copies the thing.

Otherwise grab a hosting service if you don't have one and just ftp them to your site. If you don't, I currently use SiteGround because they are pretty good as far as dirt cheap hosts and they allow a LOT of space; mine is 250Gb :-)

mattmac

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

04/08/2007 06:47:59 PM · #9

I transfer mine to my iPod.

mamba

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

04/08/2007 06:54:55 PM · #10

I could be wrong but isn't there a way of turning your gmail into an ftp server using a firefox extension.

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200 f/2.8L

04/08/2007 07:04:45 PM · #11

Originally posted by scottwilson:

If you go to a local university it'll be more like 500kb or 1 hour. Usually there is a library, or computer lab on campus.

edit: you could also probably use the computers to burn CD-R's

Message edited by author 2007-04-08 19:05:11.

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200 f/2.8L

04/08/2007 07:05:49 PM · #12

Originally posted by mamba:

I could be wrong but isn't there a way of turning your gmail into an ftp server using a firefox extension.

there's a program that does this... i forget where the download is, but I used to use it before i had firefox even.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

04/08/2007 07:25:01 PM · #13

I found the gmail thing and it looks pretty good, each account now has 2500mb's so thats good but it takes a fair bit of time per picture, it took 4min for a 4mb song

super-dave

Nikon D200

04/08/2007 07:38:02 PM · #14

an epson p5000 (there's a few different types, p2000, p3000, etc) would be perfect ... big screen, lots of space, but kinda pricey at around $600-700.

for gmail and other web based storage, the amount of upload time would kill you. and you'd need to hold 6-7 accounts to make it worth while.

perhaps consider burning straight to dvd. cds are useless when you consider that 3 cds wouldn't cover a full 2gig memory card. you can do that in many internet cafes now, and a library or university campus should have them.

how long is your trip? stocking up on a few bigger memory cards (i have an 8gig and a 2gig) might give you enough memory to cover your trip anyway, if you save compressed raw and delete pictures that you know are below standard.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

04/08/2007 07:59:28 PM · #15

Originally posted by super-dave:

were going for 10 days, I might pick up another memory card if i can find a good deal, all the ones i found are only for the US, not canada. I dont wanna buy from ebay cuz they might just be relabled cheap memory cards. And i dont want to buy a large storage device cuz im already gunna be buying a new lens and thats gunna run me around $300-400 i think. only 17ish days till i go , hope i can find something.

Are you sure that internet cafe's allow you to burn dvds? If so that would be perfect, i have a crapload of blank 4gig dvd's that i could use.

Message edited by author 2007-04-08 20:00:19.

asimchoudhri

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

04/08/2007 08:19:37 PM · #16

while this won't help if you are camping in yosemetie (where the internet wouldn't help anyways, i guess), one of the easiest and most reliable ways is to burn a dvdr at the end of the day and mail it to yourself. i'm all for digital solutions, but in the absence of cheap online storage and lots of bandwidth, this is hard to beat.

RainMotorsports

Nikon D60

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

04/08/2007 08:28:48 PM · #17

Not sure what kind of cards your using but i just bought a shitload of 2GB SD cards from Circuit City for 29.99 a peice on sale their Polaroid/PNY brand. I benchmarked them against my standard sandisk cards and they do better with small transfer and exactly the same with large transfers.