> Biggest issue is when traveling. =A0You need to carry enough memory
> card to see you through the day (or multiple days) until you can
> upload to your laptop & external disk drive (image on 2 seperate
> devices before erasing card).

As you know, Flash is getting continually cheaper, so far.
I generally carry a pocketful [tm] of 8 GB flash cards.
On recent 3 week Asia trip with my wife days took maybe 20 - 30 GB
with fine JPG + RAW.
(Just checked  afew days JPG only files. Guilin rice terraces - 5.5
GB. Li River 7.2 GB. A Sunday in Brunei 5.9 GB. Multiply by about 4X
to include RAW files.) At that rate the 320 GB notebook drive would
last about 16 days so average for 20 day trip must have been a bit
less than that.

Upload to HD on laptop. If travelling its a 320 GB HD on HP netbook
(as of September).
If a wedding or event I swap cards regularly whicle shooting to
protect against possible total loss (hasn't happened yet) and then
insert cards into reader on ever waiting laptop in a quiet moment'.
This gives both backup and also ability to display photos a short
while after taking them. People are amazed at the near instant access
and love this facility. Occasionally I'll use a second laptop with
auto cross copying and slideshow display but not so often. ALL sucking
and blowing done with DOS batch files and XXCOPY ;-).

Then a 500 GB backup drive in the evening if travelling or along the
way automatically at an event.

Camera sets and batch files clear archive attribute when copying and
copy software checks this.
Final check on Flash cards is an attribute flag checker to ensure no
set flags are left. I'm still paranoid about accidential deletions.
None so far.

Naughty XACTI video camera does NOT set archive bit when saving files
! :-(. care needed. XXCOPY /BN (or /BB?) but riskier as target dir
needs to be always the same for this to be safe. Needs work.


       Russell

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