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To: Sunny who wrote (10997)	5/12/2000 10:37:00 AM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Sort of OT; What do you do if you are on a trip and can not down load your pictures from the flash memory to your computer? 1) Buy more flash ! 2) Find a store that will copy it to CD (apparently Ritz Camera have this service) 3) Buy a really cheap laptop, leave it at your hotel, download at the end of the day 4) There are devices, which are essentially stripped down PC's with a disc which you can use to dump your CF into. I suspect that in the majority of cases (1) will turn out cheaper and more convenient and better for us stockholders as well. Dont forget that with flash, you are only keeping your good pictures. So, where on a good day on vacation I might get through a couple of rolls of 35mm, with flash I might end up with 10 or 15 pictures rather than 72, of which 60 or so are junk or duplicates. So a flash card that holds 100 or 200 pictures will have a capacity several times that of the equivalent in 35mm film. In effect with flash I have discarded the bad ones that with 35mm I had to pay to have developed and printed before I threw them away! Joe

To: Sunny who wrote (10997)	5/15/2000 11:28:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 60323

Sunny, I agree with Joe, that the most practical way to handle capacity needs on a trip is to carry additional flash cards. In my own situation, I use a 96mb flash card, which is large enough to deal with practically any situation, having a storage capacity of somewhere near 100 JPEG format shots. It would still hold some 40 - 50 highest resolution shots in TIFF format. As a practical matter, now that flash cards are getting cheaper, I would suggest keeping on hand an extra 64mb card, and, as Joe suggested, periodically deleting the shots you don't want to save. If you are reviewing your shots on the camera's LCD screen for any length of time, you're going to draw a lot of your battery current, so you should also have a set of rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries and take a charger along with you on a trip. Art