Photo Quickies

PhotoQuickie received an email from Winston with an idea that we had not thought of, he suggested using a memory card reader and a battery operated hard drive:

You can either connect your camera directly to the hard drive or use the card reader to off-load your images to the hard drive. Much smaller and lighter than taking your laptop with you. Also remember to bring your AC power adapter to charge up the battery if necessary.

Thanks for the tip Winston! We think that it is a great idea, as it would give us ample room to store other data files if necessary.

Booyaa also suggested several ideas of his in the comment including using a phone to transfer photos to flickr. It is a rather neat idea, and may be doable soon as companies such as Nikon and Kodak are releasing cameras with wireless built in.

We took a short trip ourselves across the ocean recently on which we worried about storing photos (which was also the seed that spawned this topic in our mind), luckily for us we did not run into any problems as it was quite rainy and we over-estimated the number of photos we thought we would take.

By the way, you will hopefully be glad to know that PhotoQuickie hasn’t died scaling mountains to get that perfect shot or anything; we’ve been quite busy in the new year and haven’t had a lot of time to spend on our photographing hobby, which is a convenient excuse for the lack of updates. If you’re tired of checking the site every day waiting for updates, try using our RSS feed instead (now available through FeedBurner).

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