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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 11, 2015 12:58:51 GMT
As I have stated before, dh and I are taking our kids to Europe. I have bought 3 16gb memory cards for my camera. Anything I take with my iphone can be uploaded to the cloud but the battery life is not great so I am going to really stick with my point and shoot. My DSLR is too heavy to lug around and I like that my point and shoot has GPS on it to remind me where photos were taken.
My point and shoot does not have wifi access and I don't plan on taking a laptop for obvious reasons. Should I just rely on the memory cards or is there something out there that I haven't seen yet that I can upload a ton of photos?
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Post by grinningcat on Aug 11, 2015 13:13:44 GMT
I always just bring a lot of memory cards to capture images. It's better to lose one memory card with only part of the trip than to lose another device with everything on it.
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Post by iowgirl on Aug 11, 2015 13:25:33 GMT
Do you have an iPad? I upload my pictures to my iPad all the time. I have the little plug that you put the SD card into. It has the be the apple one.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 11, 2015 13:30:27 GMT
I do have an Ipad but my phone has way more storage than that thing (16 gb I think). My iphone 6 has the highest amount of memory I could get. In a perfect world, I would like to keep my photos on the memory cards but have the ability to upload them to an external hard drive of sorts so I have 2 copies of them.
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Post by Karmady on Aug 11, 2015 13:33:03 GMT
I lug around my DSLR with one lens and I have 10 cards. I use my Passport Sling bag as a purse/camera bag.
My files are too big and I take too many photos for my ipad and I don't want to lug around my laptop. I always have 2-3 cards with me and leave the rest in the hotel room safe.
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Post by mallie on Aug 11, 2015 13:56:34 GMT
I always just use the memory cards. I have a small zippered pouch that lives in my body bag so I always know where the finished ones are. The blank ones I keep in another small zippered pouch (like a coin purse) in my pocket, so I don't have to deal with getting out the bag when a photo op presents itself and I use up the last image space on the card.
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Post by laulley on Aug 11, 2015 14:06:20 GMT
Memory cards are cheap enough that I bring one for each day. I make backup copies on an external drive each evening. Then I put the external drive & used memory card in the safe & put a new memory card in for the next day.
I use to put multiple days on the same memory card - but I lost a memory card in Africa once while on safari. The card was full & I took out my case to exchange the card. It had about 3 days of images on it. Later that evening I discovered that the case was missing w/all of my cards. The guide went back to the location where I changed the card (it was at a site where a lion had just made a kill so we knew exactly where it was) & he found my case!!!! So my story ended with me getting my cards back - but it was purely luck.
With the method I use now I could still misplace a memory card - but it would have limited photos on it & not the entire vacation.
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Post by pastlifepea on Aug 11, 2015 14:06:35 GMT
I was in Italy last fall and just used memory cards. I always write my name and e-mail address on the memory card with a very fine point sharpie in case I manage to lose it. When I got home, I put the images on my computer and then exported to an external hard drive for back up.
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Post by bratkar on Aug 11, 2015 14:22:00 GMT
I always just bring a lot of memory cards to capture images. It's better to lose one memory card with only part of the trip than to lose another device with everything on it. We on average when we went to Europe brought 1 memory card for each day there. Loss of a memory card or one becoming damaged was our biggest fear. I can handle losing one day of pictures. As it was, part of our final day in Paris, the memory card for that day became damaged and we lost about 40 pictures, but didn't know it until we were home and uploading.
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Post by annabella on Aug 11, 2015 14:37:19 GMT
I just empty my memory card before I go and one is enough for the whole trip. I would fear losing it if I took it out because I had multiple cards. Trust me I take thousands of pictures at high resolution over a 2-3 week trip, they all fit on one card. Personally I think Europe is a reason to bring your good heavy dslr camera with you. I bring a point and shoot as a back up. On two trips the person who I asked to take my picture dropped my camera and broke it so I was glad I had a backup. I do charge the battery every night as when I didn't, it runs out of battery during the day causing me to lose pictures. I don't upload any pics online while on vacation. But I watched one guy trying to do that with his ipad, it depended on when he had wifi and how strong it was and then it still took him a long time. Seemed liked a big waste of time to me.
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Post by beachbum on Aug 11, 2015 14:59:22 GMT
I know a couple of people who have had memory cards become corrupt - I do not want that pain on vacation. I can't imagine losing an entire trip's worth of pictures if I lost the card or the camera, so I don't buy any card larger than 8GB, I usually buy 4GB. They are very cheap now, I have a big collection of them. One card for an entire vacation would make me very nervous - too many things could happen to that card. I have a good friend who is a photographer, she's the one who gave me the idea to use smaller cards, that's what she does when she uses digital (she's gone back to mostly film now).
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 11, 2015 15:51:50 GMT
I know a couple of people who have had memory cards become corrupt - I do not want that pain on vacation. I can't imagine losing an entire trip's worth of pictures if I lost the card or the camera, so I don't buy any card larger than 8GB, I usually buy 4GB. They are very cheap now, I have a big collection of them. One card for an entire vacation would make me very nervous - too many things could happen to that card. I have a good friend who is a photographer, she's the one who gave me the idea to use smaller cards, that's what she does when she uses digital (she's gone back to mostly film now). I took a class and the photographer said the same thing. He said get a whole bunch of smaller cards. They don't often fail but if they do, you won't lose as much.
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 11, 2015 16:46:29 GMT
Yes, a professional photographer will tell you to use multiple cards. Also, if you fill a card completely to capacity, that can compromise your card. Don't ever delete just a photo from your card and don't delete photos from your computer. Put the card back into your camera and choose Erase All Photos.
When we went to England and France, I just took my point and shoot. It's a good camera and I was very happy not to have to carry around a heavy DSLR. It's a lot of walking and we often didn't get back to our hotel until 9-10 at night. I didn't upload photos as we went along, but waited until we got home.
I took at least a few photos with my phone at every place we visited. Then each night, I would send a synopsis of our day, along with 4 photos, to friends and family and my email. It was so nice to have our itinerary listed out day by day with an anecdote from each day. And it helped my MIL remember where we were, as she has memory issues.
Will others have a camera or a phone? Have them take pictures, too. My kids were 17 & 16 ( DD turned 16 on top of the Eiffel Tower!). The photos they took were of completely different things. And then it's not all on you and a few memory cards.
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Post by kristi on Aug 11, 2015 17:30:47 GMT
You could get a Wifi SD card that can upload to your phone as a back up if something happens to your cards.
I have an SD connector for my ipad. At night, I plug in my SD card & upload highlight photos. It gives me peace of mind if something happened to my camera/cards that I have the highlights backed up.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 11, 2015 17:55:18 GMT
Yes, a professional photographer will tell you to use multiple cards. Also, if you fill a card completely to capacity, that can compromise your card. Don't ever delete just a photo from your card and don't delete photos from your computer. Put the card back into your camera and choose Erase All Photos. When we went to England and France, I just took my point and shoot. It's a good camera and I was very happy not to have to carry around a heavy DSLR. It's a lot of walking and we often didn't get back to our hotel until 9-10 at night. I didn't upload photos as we went along, but waited until we got home. I took at least a few photos with my phone at every place we visited. Then each night, I would send a synopsis of our day, along with 4 photos, to friends and family and my email. It was so nice to have our itinerary listed out day by day with an anecdote from each day. And it helped my MIL remember where we were, as she has memory issues. Will others have a camera or a phone? Have them take pictures, too. My kids were 17 & 16 ( DD turned 16 on top of the Eiffel Tower!). The photos they took were of completely different things. And then it's not all on you and a few memory cards. Yes. My dd will be 17 and my ds 13 so I am sure they will take some photos. My dh takes the worst photos ever so I doubt I will ask him. My thought is the same about the DSLR. By the time I get it set, the moment will pass and my point and shoot takes awesome photos and has a manual mode as well. I bought a bunch of cards and extra batteries but I probably should get more cards.
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Post by missysauter on Aug 11, 2015 20:23:17 GMT
I had a memory card completely crash on me while we were 4 days in to our 10 day European vacation two summers ago. I was grief stricken!! I had another card, but was so bummed about the first 4 days being gone. When we got back I went to Best Buy and they said they would try to recover the photos for $250. I was prepare to pay them, but DH suggested I call a local camera store. They charged me $20.00 to recover the photos. It's a horrible feeling to think you've lost so much!
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Post by birukitty on Aug 11, 2015 20:50:44 GMT
I just empty my memory card before I go and one is enough for the whole trip. I would fear losing it if I took it out because I had multiple cards. Trust me I take thousands of pictures at high resolution over a 2-3 week trip, they all fit on one card. Personally I think Europe is a reason to bring your good heavy dslr camera with you. I bring a point and shoot as a back up. On two trips the person who I asked to take my picture dropped my camera and broke it so I was glad I had a backup. I do charge the battery every night as when I didn't, it runs out of battery during the day causing me to lose pictures. I don't upload any pics online while on vacation. But I watched one guy trying to do that with his ipad, it depended on when he had wifi and how strong it was and then it still took him a long time. Seemed liked a big waste of time to me. This exactly. I can't imagine bringing multiple cards, switching them out each day-there's such a risk of losing them that way, not to mention getting them disorganized. I bring one card in my DSLR and one back up card. I've never had to use the back up card, and I've never had a problem with the card in the my camera. Lucky I guess, but this just makes sense to me to do it this way. As far as travelling abroad and not wanting to bring your good heavy DSLR because it's heavy? So what? For the expense you've paid for the trip, I don't mind hauling a little extra weight. I know those photos with the DSLR will be far superior to a point and shoot or a camera phone. I know, to each her own, but for me it's more than worth it. It gives me more options once I'm home. If it turns out I end up getting several great shots I can enlarge those to some some 11x14's and a 16x20 for a wall arrangement. You can't do that with most phone camera pictures because the pixals will look horrible. Not enough time to get that shot on a DSLR? Slam that thing into Auto (they all have that feature) and it'll work just as fast as any point and shoot. Debbie in MD.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 12, 2015 15:15:08 GMT
I just empty my memory card before I go and one is enough for the whole trip. I would fear losing it if I took it out because I had multiple cards. Trust me I take thousands of pictures at high resolution over a 2-3 week trip, they all fit on one card. Personally I think Europe is a reason to bring your good heavy dslr camera with you. I bring a point and shoot as a back up. On two trips the person who I asked to take my picture dropped my camera and broke it so I was glad I had a backup. I do charge the battery every night as when I didn't, it runs out of battery during the day causing me to lose pictures. I don't upload any pics online while on vacation. But I watched one guy trying to do that with his ipad, it depended on when he had wifi and how strong it was and then it still took him a long time. Seemed liked a big waste of time to me. This exactly. I can't imagine bringing multiple cards, switching them out each day-there's such a risk of losing them that way, not to mention getting them disorganized. I bring one card in my DSLR and one back up card. I've never had to use the back up card, and I've never had a problem with the card in the my camera. Lucky I guess, but this just makes sense to me to do it this way. As far as travelling abroad and not wanting to bring your good heavy DSLR because it's heavy? So what? For the expense you've paid for the trip, I don't mind hauling a little extra weight. I know those photos with the DSLR will be far superior to a point and shoot or a camera phone. I know, to each her own, but for me it's more than worth it. It gives me more options once I'm home. If it turns out I end up getting several great shots I can enlarge those to some some 11x14's and a 16x20 for a wall arrangement. You can't do that with most phone camera pictures because the pixals will look horrible. Not enough time to get that shot on a DSLR? Slam that thing into Auto (they all have that feature) and it'll work just as fast as any point and shoot. Debbie in MD. Actually my point and shoot has more pixels than my DSLR so for that reason, the point and shoot would be a better option.
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Post by annabella on Aug 12, 2015 15:25:19 GMT
My DSLR has an excellent lens, I can stand right in front of the Rome amphitheatre and get the entire building while everyone else had to run back half a mile to get everything in. I carry an 8 inch purse on my shoulder that houses the camera, so I don't look like a tourist and still stay fashionable.
I had one memory card corrupt in that it had 4 compartments in it, so every time I took it out of the camera and put it back in I saw a different set of pics, but when connected to my computer I saw all 4 folders. Still I would assume a camera store can get your pictures from a corrupted card so no need to switch cards until it breaks.
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Post by scrapcat on Aug 12, 2015 15:26:52 GMT
When I travel I take 4-5 small gig cards (like 4 or 8 gb) and then I change them out more frequently, so if one gets lost/destroyed I didn't lose pics from day 1 through 3, just a few from day 1, day 2, etc. Like I will change them out in the afternoon. Sorry if this is clear as mud, can't seem to explain my process!
I understand your debating what camera to take, and you should do what is most comfortable for you. Having a DSLR is less about pixels and more about speed and light capabilities. This topic came up the other day in the General Scrapbooking thread too, and I am actually working on a blog post for this topic because it seems to be a common issue for many photogs.
Have fun on your trip! I'm sure it will be memorable no matter what photos you get.
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Post by annabella on Aug 12, 2015 15:29:01 GMT
I took at least a few photos with my phone at every place we visited. Then each night, I would send a synopsis of our day, along with 4 photos, to friends and family and my email. It was so nice to have our itinerary listed out day by day with an anecdote from each day. And it helped my MIL remember where we were, as she has memory issues. I've noticed in the past couple years that people stopped doing vacation albums on facebook because they post one pic daily during vacation. I'd prefer to see the whole picture of everything you saw, not just a very limited highlight. It seems with iphones there's this instant need to share. I wish more people would disconnect on vacation.
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Post by Karene on Aug 12, 2015 15:32:30 GMT
When we went to Scotland and Ireland I took my DSLR because it was also a photo trip for the two of us. My husband took his as well. I took lots of cards and didn't reuse any of them. I took my little netbook just for downloading that day's photos in the evening and then also took two portable external hard drives (about the size of a cell phone) and copied to those as well. I figured we paid a lot for this trip and I didn't want to lose any photos. I kept all these devices in different bags so that if anything got lost, I would still have a copy of everything since I had it backed up 4 places. Between the two of us, we took 25,000 photos! (We were there a month.)
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Post by Karene on Aug 12, 2015 15:35:51 GMT
I find the lag time on a point and shoot drives me nuts. My DSLR is ready instantly and I never miss the moment.
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 12, 2015 15:57:48 GMT
I took at least a few photos with my phone at every place we visited. Then each night, I would send a synopsis of our day, along with 4 photos, to friends and family and my email. It was so nice to have our itinerary listed out day by day with an anecdote from each day. And it helped my MIL remember where we were, as she has memory issues. I've noticed in the past couple years that people stopped doing vacation albums on facebook because they post one pic daily during vacation. I'd prefer to see the whole picture of everything you saw, not just a very limited highlight. It seems with iphones there's this instant need to share. I wish more people would disconnect on vacation. Well, I didn't put the photos on social media. Does that help? LOL We are a military family and have never lived around family. I send out a weekly email with photos to my parents, in laws, best friend, and siblings. In between, I email my in laws more often as it's hard for my MIL to talk on the phone, but she can read and reread emails. So mostly the emails were for her and I just CCed the others. That way she wasn't calling the house and didn't worry that I wasn't returning her calls. And no worries. When we did see family next, I had a whole slideshow where I used Airplay so everyone could see it in the TV. And it was on the iPad if we weren't around a TV. I don't use Facebook for personal use, so I never did put the photos up there.
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Post by birukitty on Aug 12, 2015 16:38:28 GMT
When I travel I take 4-5 small gig cards (like 4 or 8 gb) and then I change them out more frequently, so if one gets lost/destroyed I didn't lose pics from day 1 through 3, just a few from day 1, day 2, etc. Like I will change them out in the afternoon. Sorry if this is clear as mud, can't seem to explain my process! I understand your debating what camera to take, and you should do what is most comfortable for you. Having a DSLR is less about pixels and more about speed and light capabilities. This topic came up the other day in the General Scrapbooking thread too, and I am actually working on a blog post for this topic because it seems to be a common issue for many photogs. Have fun on your trip! I'm sure it will be memorable no matter what photos you get. Haven't figured out how to post part of a quote yet, so what Papergoddess said here is true: having a DSLR is not just about pixals. My old DSLR only has 12 megapixals which is just fine if you know how to use it. Although I don't think camera phones have that much yet, do they? Anyway, it is also about speed (what used to be film speed, now called ISO) and light (the ability to capture a photo in low light) and also about the flash recycle time (which is much faster in a DSLR) as another Pea mentioned. Also, your photos end up much sharper due to what lens you use. But it still boils down to what camera you are most comfortable with. What about taking both, so you have the option of using either just in case, and then locking the one you don't use in the hotel safe? Or maybe giving one to DH to use? Debbie in MD.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 12, 2015 17:22:02 GMT
I know that DSLR is more than just about pixels but for the reference of being able to enlarge the photos, my iphone 6 has more than my DSLR. I only have 7 on mine. I also have to admit that I have never really learned how to use it properly. I purchased it to take photos of my jewelry in the lightbox and I gave up because I can get better photos on my iphone and use the editing software right there. With my Canon, I have to upload them and then edit them one by one and what happens is I NEVER edit them. I upload them to get them off my camera but never do anything with them. I also like to be able to put them up on my business page right away and I can't do that with my camera. I have some time so I am going to see if I can learn how to use this stupid thing once and for all and then maybe get a new one. I have so many lenses/accessories that I hate not to use it.
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Post by annabella on Aug 12, 2015 17:39:55 GMT
We spent last week in Washington, DC. Near the end of the trip I commented to DH that I had seen fewer DSLR cameras on this trip than I have in years. It seems the vast majority was using their cell phones and selfie sticks to take photos, though I did see a few point and shoots. I didn't even bother to take my DSLR this trip because I didn't want to deal with it in the crowds. Between my P&S and my iPhone 6, I got everything that I wanted. Does it matter what the vast majority of people are doing? You're talking about the average traveler doing a quick trip. Not everyone cares about the quality of their photos. I notice this when I ask someone to take my picture and their angle is all wrong, I have to instruct them on what points of interest are good, I don't need my feet in the pic and don't squat to take my pic because then I will be looking down on the camera. I see tourists not turning to face the sun to take their own pics or standing in the shade because they don't think about lighting.
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Post by annabella on Aug 12, 2015 17:42:38 GMT
I know that DSLR is more than just about pixels but for the reference of being able to enlarge the photos, my iphone 6 has more than my DSLR. I only have 7 on mine. My friend and I both have the new iphone and she printed out a 8x10 photo from hers and it looked grainy to me. Do you have to change the settings on the phone before taking a picture to get higher pixels?
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Post by auntkelly on Aug 12, 2015 17:49:00 GMT
I know it's personal preference, but I couldn't go to Europe and leave my DSLR at home. I don't even put my camera in a bag, I just wear it around my neck or carry it by the strap. It's just second nature to me and I could care less whether people know I'm a tourist.
I loaned my DSLR camera to a friend for six weeks last June and I have missed it so much this summer. I would never loan my camera to anyone again and it's a long story as to why I did it this time. One of the things I really noticed was that my point and shoot and my iPhone took really bad pictures out in the sun. With my iPhone, I couldn't even see my screen at times to be able to frame the shot. I just shot blindly and the picture quality was terrible.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 12, 2015 18:39:42 GMT
I too, don't care if people know I am a tourist. I just get really tired of lugging the DSLR around my neck all the time. I have neck issues and if I don't carry it, I have to ask dh over and over to give it to me as we all stand around waiting for me to get it out of the bag and turn it on, curse that the battery is low, take off the lens cap, you get the idea.
I don't plan on using my iphone for photos.
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