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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	One year ago at this time I was ending a two month sujourne all over the UK: Great Britain, Wales and Scotland. I had an Olympus 3030 (3MB) with a fair amount of 128 an 64 MB cards that usually would fill up in 3 to 4 days with deletions each evening or on the fly. My original plan was to find internet cafes, but I found it takes time to find a place, be it an internet café or photo shop, to upload image files onto their computer & then burn CDs plus the time consumed doing the task & the cost. Most internet cafes exist to surf the web, word processing or playing games & do not have the equipment or will not permit it due to fear of copy write law. To be safe, I felt the need to burn a second back up CD just in case the original is lost or damaged in shipment. I had to factor in the additional time taken in packaging and shipping the CD back home along with the cost. So upon my return I discovered 20GIG and up small hard drives the size of a double thick palm pilot. This is the solution to the problem! A solution to burning CDs along the trip can be eliminated by purchasing a Delkin Memory Bank or a portable CD burner, both of which became available less than a month before I left or upon my return. Seven months after our return I purchased a less expensive 20 GIG straight Hard drive without the viewing and editing bells and whistles of the Delkin. It is an I/OMagic Digital Photo Library 20 GIG portable HD. You can download most any card except xD or whatever it is. It uses a rechargable Lithium battery that last quite a bit of time. The only thing it doesn't have is a preview window and editing ability, but it is a hell of a lot cheaper than the Nexview and efilm versions. I ran a battery of tests and it never screwed up so it seem reliable. I treat it like fine china, so haven't dropped it. I usually beat the heck out of equipment, coming from the old days of the 50's and 60's mechanical cameras when everything was mechanical and your could take a camera apart out in the field and repair it in a few minutes. Not so today! 20GIG is a lot of space! You can drag a bunch of your own files with you as well. Steverino Loading...
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