Photo backup

Hi,

I don't know if you have tried an Ipad or another tablet. I find traveling with my ipad very handy. I load all my books onto the ipad (save weight). I also use this to back up my photos at night, they then load onto the cloud. I also use it as my journal. Not to mention, email and internet for booking venues or hotel rooms.

Mary

I have a card reader that I hook up to my computer as it doesn't have a card reader built in. Found a cable that will go from my phone with a female usb end on it that will hook to the card reader and then can load photos onto the cloud. Will be doing several backup sights for my photos. Was a concern of mine too. Also got a card for my camera that fits in my tablet so, will also use that as backup.

What amount of data are we talking about? I shoot RAW and take 2-3,000 pics per trip (or more.) So cloud storage over slow WIFI is out of the question in my case. There are stand alone photo backups available (search Amazon for example) or you can use a tablet. While the internal memory on tablets is not enough for a significant amount of photos, you can do this: load your photos onto the tablet, insert a fresh card, then load your photos from the tablet back onto the unused card. Of course, this doubles the amount of cards you will need. That is probably the "lightest" if you don't want to take a computer.

I don't shoot in RAW - not necessary for my needs. I use jpg with the least amount of compression - so the biggest jpg files. Over a 2-3 week trip I'll take 2000 pictures or more. So far I haven't traveled for longer than that, but I'm looking at a month next year and maybe longer in the future. I do have an ipad, 64 GB, and that is fine for backing up the photos I think I want to keep. The crappy pictures are kept on the memory card (who knows what I can see on it when I get home!), but not backed up to the ipad because of space constraints. I'm hoping for a way to just copy my memory card to a device every night for redundancy.

Mira, have you looked at units like the kingston mobilelite wireless g2 or 3. but are thinking of something like this for our next trip.

I don't own one but there are devices out there that might suit your needs, for backing up without a pc etc..

glennlorrainer, that might work! I'm looking into it more, but it seems like you can use it to copy files to an external drive.

OK, here's what you do. Get a "Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA 3". I have version 2 of this product and it's awesome. It's the size of a small portable hard disk which makes sense since that's essentially what it is. It has a screen and slots for CF & SD cards. Put in the card, hit a button and your files are transferred to the drive. You can even then re-copy them to another external drive (which I do, giving me a minimum of 2 copies) or transfer them via wifi to your iPad. It's easy & simple. You can also view your photos on the device.

I also take thousands of shots while travelling and have been using this product for years. I just discovered the new version (3) and it has enough features that I'm thinking of selling my old one to a friend & upgrading. I recommend buying the version without a hard drive and buying an SSD and installing it yourself. It's really easy to do, cheaper than buying one of their drives, and the SSD has no moving parts so it's more reliable.