Boris, that's one of the concerns I have been thinking about recently. I'm
off to the UK and Hong Kong in November (may have a chance for a meet with
other PDML'ers in London, don't yet know as there are multiple family
obstacles in the way!), and have been thinking about storage while on the
move. I have two CF cards giving me a total of 768MB, but this will not be
nearly enough if I shoot at my usual rate, and I am not sure whether anyone
I will be visiting has a CD burner: I'll take my neat little USB card-reader
with me just in case I can download anywhere and burn a CD. So I was
thinking about portable storage or a larger capacity card: the issue with
the latter is that if it goes belly-up on me before I've downloaded the
files, that's it, all over red rover! And I do not therefore want to rely
on just one gigantic CF card when this will be an unrepeatable trip for me.
Boris categorises his PD7X as "quite reliable" - does anyone have any
thoughts about something totally reliable!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:55 PM
Subject: Enablement and a question thereafter
Hi!
Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact Drive
PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries, can read your
cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive. All in all, now I have
12 GB more of space that I can take with me.
Here comes the question.
Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my two
trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card is filled,
I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera. Then I repeat
this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on.
Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB compact flash
(for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs and as much as 80GB
hard drive for PD7X?
I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF digital
back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8 MP camera on
his vacation or some other favorite photo location of his.
What do you say?
Boris
