EOS Digital Photo Storage

[Gerry Morgan]

I'm planning to switch from film to an EOS 10d, and I was wondering how 
people on the list with digital camera bodies store their images. I mainly 
photograph natural subjects, typically while hiking or on road trips. And I 
think I'll mainly be shooting RAW images, to maximize image quality. So 
I'll need a lot of portable storage (carrying a laptop computer is not 
going to work for me). The best price per megabyte seems to be for the 1GB 
IBM Microdrive. I'm also looking at the Delkin eFilm PicturePad, which 
contains a 40GB hard drive. So I could periodically transfer my images from 
the Microdrive to the 40GB hard drive, and have just a single Microdrive.

However, I was reading a page on dpreview.com which says that the 10d is 
rather slow at saving images. The article therefore recommends buying the 
fastest CF card available (and I think flash memory cards are faster than 
Microdrives). But this does not make sense to me. If the 10d is inherently 
slow to transfer data to storage, then there is no point in buying the 
fastest memory card available, because the camera (not the memory) will be 
the performance bottleneck.

So, my questions are: is the IBM Microdrive a good match for the 10d? And 
is anyone using the PicturePad to archive data while travelling with their 10d?

Gerry

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