As I just mentioned, I went to Kenya and Tanzania for a month...
The gear that I brought with me was:
Pentax *ist DS
2 1G SD cards
Many AA rechargeables, 2 sets of disposable CRV3s
A-50 f1.4
Tamron 70-300
18-55
30G iPod video
The iPod worked well enough, but it has 2 fatal flaws
1 - the battery is only good for writing about 800MB.. and that takes
about 30 minutes. Still, with car and universal chargers, and 2 SD
cards, I could shoot all day and transfer to the iPod at night.
2 - you have to transfer an entire roll of photos, then immediately
delete them from the card. The iPod isn't smart enough to know that it
is already storing a photo.
The damn thing scared the crap out of me on a few occaisions (when wall
power was bad, temperature was high, or ?) by either crashing, claiming
that _it_ held no photos, or claiming that the camera was empty.
Resetting the iPod and/or allowing it to cool fixed the problem every
time, but the first couple times this happened I was a little tense.
I was concerned that the camera's battery would be run down by
transferring directly from the camera to the iPod, but with AA
rechargables, it wasn't really an issue.
Would I recommend using an iPod for a similar trip? Maybe, but an
external battery with a dock connector, camera connector or card reader
would be preferable to the apple iPod Camera Connector.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M9861G/A
JP
