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OK, I'm very clueless with all this techy stuff so this may very well be a stupid question, but.

At the moment I take my pictures and once at home download them to my laptop and back them up to an external hard drive. Now I like going on long walking trips to Scandinavia - trips up to a month long - so lots of images just on the card. I don't want to lug my laptop around with me, so, what I want is some sort of device that I can carry with me and download my images to straight from the camera. I sure something like this must exist, but what are they called?
 
WD My Passport PRO. you can just stick your SD card in, press a button and it will download. Takes a few minutes mind, but its small and reliable. i use one at half time during weddings.

You are also able to then view the contents of that disk on your smartphone.
 
gremlin16 said:
WD My Passport PRO. you can just stick your SD card in, press a button and it will download. Takes a few minutes mind, but its small and reliable. i use one at half time during weddings.

You are also able to then view the contents of that disk on your smartphone.
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This ^^ 1TB will be more than plenty - but also, switch cards often as you're backing up.
 
Eggs in one basket? Out for a month taking pictures and you put all your photos on one device?mid invest in more sd cards and just store them in different safe places.
 
Yep, I'd probably want to take multiple cards. Perhaps a 10" size laptop would work, allowing you to transfer & store images to second device like a USB memory stick, while being light enough to carry comfortably.
 
Just looked at the WD Passport Pro on Amazon, lot's of bad reviews
 
imattersuk said:
Just looked at the WD Passport Pro on Amazon, lot's of bad reviews
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I’ve no problem with that, but I have one, bought it in NYC in January and it’s (in my opinion) bloody brilliant :)

Just to add, I would use this as a supplement as opposed to wiping my cards afterwards. As alluded to above, best practice would be to backup the cards and also use plenty of cards, and store them separately. It all depends on how important the images are to you.
 
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gremlin16 said:
I’ve no problem with that, but I have one, bought it in NYC in January and it’s (in my opinion) bloody brilliant :)

Just to add, I would use this as a supplement as opposed to wiping my cards afterwards. As alluded to above, best practice would be to backup the cards and also use plenty of cards, and store them separately. It all depends on how important the images are to you.
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Exactly, not a back up unless you keep them on your card as well

I use a tablet (Samsung Galaxy 10.5 Tab S) and copy the photos to its micro usb card via a card reader with a micro usb plug https://www.startech.com/uk/HDD/Card-Readers/USB-Card-Readers/micro-usb-otg-card-reader~FCREADU2OTGB
128gb gives plenty of storage space, daresay you could use a smartphone if its OTG enabled, used this method quite a few times now with no problems.

Also its nice to view your photos in the evening, good to check all is well with your settings etc
If you get short of space its a good way to identify rotters for deletion
 
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I recently was shooting for 5 days abroad at an event, was paranoid about a card failure. Bought a WD my passport wireless pro, it does sequential backups (so just brings over new pics) saving time. As mentioned I left the pics on the cards as well, until each evening when I could make a second backup onto another drive.

The bonus is you can view the images from smart phone/tablet.

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