Off to the Land of the Rising Sun for a Vacation...Geek Style!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by LordFuzzy

Dont forget your Chargers.

Oh yeah, got that covered six ways from Sunday.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by LordFuzzy

Dont forget your Chargers.

Oh yeah, got that covered six ways from Sunday.

[Jason Dunn]

Ok, I'm going to enjoy Japan now and won't be checking in on this thread again until I return. Watch my blog for updates if you want to follow my Japanese Journey.

[SassKwatch]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

• …the Nikon D300 + four lenses (including my new ultra-sharp 24-70 f/2.8) + 32 GB CF card + 3 x 8 GB CF cards

Do you really expect to utilize all that flash storage space? Given that you'll have a laptop (presumably offloading each day's images to it), that seems like an overabundance.(??) Nothing wrong with that, of course....it's certainly lightweight and next to nothing in terms of space taking.

I guess I'm a dinosaur. I generally have a 2GB microdrive in my camera, shoot exclusively RAW and never fill it up in a shooting session. In fact, I start getting nervous when it gets much over half full as I start worrying about the portable media crashing and burning, and losing everything. Even on a trip such as yours, I suspect I wouldn't carry much more than maybe 4 2gb cards. That does assume I have the ability to offload each day's shots that evening.

[Tim Williamson]

Next week I'm off to DC for two weeks and am taking my couple year-old Gateway laptop, Canon EOS 10D (512MB CF, 3 lenses, 3 batteries), and Canon SD870IS (1GB SD and 1 battery). Planning to offload and filter through the images each night, and if I get a chance, clean-up and upload the good ones to Flickr (as an additional backup).

I might have to start my own topic to compete with this thread.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

Do you really expect to utilize all that flash storage space?

Nah, not at all. It's just that's where I happen to keep my flash memory for cameras, so they came along for the ride. There was exactly ONE day in Japan where I had to swap out the 8 GB Delkin for the 8 GB Transcend. I shot with the 32 GB for the first couple of days but found it was a bit slower when I was reviewing/deleting the image on-camera, so I switched to the faster cards.

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

I guess I'm a dinosaur. I generally have a 2GB microdrive in my camera, shoot exclusively RAW and never fill it up in a shooting session.

Microdrives, in my experience at least, have a higher chance of failure, are slower, and are harder on the battery life than Flash memory - and with Flash memory prices being what they are, you could probably pick up a 2 GB CF card for $20.

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

Even on a trip such as yours, I suspect I wouldn't carry much more than maybe 4 2gb cards. That does assume I have the ability to offload each day's shots that evening.

Yeah, I was off-loading to the laptop every night and also making a copy to an external hard drive I brought along - I always had two copies of my pictures. Oh, and the processed photos trickled back to one computer at home via FolderShare.

It's good to home...I'm still in a time-zone daze, but am recovering.

PS - I'll be doing a "geek analysis" of all the gear I brought, explaining how it performed, what I would/wouldn't bring again, etc. I think you'll find it interesting!