Backing up Greek wedding photos

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Sorry if this has been covered a million times, but I am photographing a friends wedding in Greece in July. What is the best way to back up images.
I dont particuarly want to take my laptop on holiday, I have a Canon 40d so dont have the joy of 2 memory card slots.
Do I just shoot to cards and hope nothing happens. Or bite the bullet and take the laptop, keeping cards and also backing up to laptop ?

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Any chance there will be a laptop out there you could borrow. You could then use it to backup to a 2.5" hdd
 
Pretty unlikely.
I guess I could invest in a netbook, a little less bulky to carry.
Anyother suggestions out there ?
 
half a dozen CF cards
 
On my travels I use a netbook and a USB hard drive so I have 2 copies with me. The USB drive is kept away from the netbook to give a little more security against loss/theft meaning my picture are gone.
 
Where are you staying? Do they have computers you can use? Net cafe? You could always upload them to an internet storage facility. You could also get some USB storage and put them on that as well. And if you had enough CF cards that would give you 3 copies of the data, which I think counts as backed up.

Alternatively I know you can buy portable storage systems which take a CF card, you hit a button and your backed up.
 
You could always look at a standalone back-up device...

Amazon do them from about £60...

Search for Photobank or Camera Buddy...(no idea how good any of those are but they're a bit more luggage friendly than a laptop).
 
admirable said:
half a dozen CF cards
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... won't give him backups!

lawrie29 said:
Where are you staying? Do they have computers you can use? Net cafe? You could always upload them to an internet storage facility. You could also get some USB storage and put them on that as well. And if you had enough CF cards that would give you 3 copies of the data, which I think counts as backed up.

Alternatively I know you can buy portable storage systems which take a CF card, you hit a button and your backed up.
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Internet storage is a non starter for this - you'd be uploading for hours and hours. (You will shoot RAW won't you?) Portable storage is the answer.

paulhinch said:
You could always look at a standalone back-up device...

Amazon do them from about £60...

Search for Photobank or Camera Buddy...(no idea how good any of those are but they're a bit more luggage friendly than a laptop).
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That's the way to go - cheap(ish) and light.
 
RobertP said:
On my travels I use a netbook and a USB hard drive so I have 2 copies with me. The USB drive is kept away from the netbook to give a little more security against loss/theft meaning my picture are gone.
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^^^^^^^^^^^
WHS!

For an extra bit of backup, you could get hold of a couple of USB memory sticks and copy the images onto them. Give the bride's mother a stick (and get a receipt for it) so the family have a copy to be responsible for.
 
I was looking for camera backup devices and only found them over the £300 mark.

A netbook would be my choice, I would swap the HDD out for a 500Gb jobbie, It would be hard to fill that in a holiday. You also have the benefit of a larger screen to review pictures on and if there is any wireless, upload to Flickr etc.

It may be slightly more expensive, but would be more flexible. How do these photobanks etc. handle duplicate filenames? ie if you have 2 cameras with clashing photo numbers?
 
Hi, Well as I live in Greece I'll ask the question again "where are going to the wedding"?
Also remember that in the day time you could be standing in 100F+.
IMO extra cards because (1) they are so cheap now and (2) even if you back up to another storage device whats to say that may hit problems, at least with the cards you don't put all your eggs in one basket and there light to carry.
Chers
Russ
 
The wedding is in Zante in July...so guess it will be pretty hot !
Stupid question No 1....is there some fancy device that enables me to copy images from card to card (without a laptop)
Stupid question No 2....how can I copy to USB stciks straight from the camera (without laptop etc)
Stupid question No 3.. sounds like portable hard drive maybe the way forward...any recommendations as to size.
I know nothing is certain and anything can go wrong..but so long as I have at least 2 copies of images on separate devices albeit cards / 2.5 hhd...at least I have tried :D

ps thank you all for your suggestions..they really have been a help :love:
 
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You can do 1 & 2 with a 1D3 and a WFT2
 
I'd agree with the camera buddy suggestion, for the point of view of portability and ruggedness. A netbook is a good idea in theory, but they tend to be fairly fragile unless you use a hard case, again increasing the size.

The camera buddy is cheaper than the £350ish epson or vosonic backup devices as it has no screen, but apparently there's a one-touch copy button that'll hoover off the contents of your camera. I think a 320gb model is around £140, capacity wise that should be more than enough to see you through.

A portable hard drive needs a pc to work, the backup devices mentioned have the necessary hardware to talk to usb devices, which is why they're more expensive than portable hd's.
 
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