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Save/ShareReader of This Just In, Corey Larsen Bauer, writes:
Got a dilemma we need help with....our teenage daughter will be leaving soon to be an exchange student to Norway for a year. What's the best way to store so many photos she'll take? Should she take a laptop to download them on? Or quite a few memory sticks or what?!?!
Well, Corey, Thanks for your message. You must be so proud of your daughter getting to go to Norway! [By the way: Budget Travel has often covered the country often, including this story: "Have You Cruised in a Fjord Lately?"]
My suggestion is that your daughter get an annual "Pro" subscription to Flickr.com, a beguiling website for storing and sharing photos.
The Pro subscription will let her upload her photos from her laptop--or from a friend's computer. That way, her photos will be saved someplace safe in case the camera dies or the memory stick is lost.
What's more, Flickr makes it easy to share photos with others by email, or to make postcards using sites like Moo.com. The site is free to use and to store a small batch of photos, but you need to get a $25-a-year subscription to store an unlimited number of snapshots. However, I think the fee is worth it.
When your daughter takes daytrips around the country or Europe, she could bring along a small 256 megabyte memory stick, which costs about $50 and which can be used as an interim storage device for storing a couple hundred photos (depending on the size of the images and the quality of her digital camera). If she doesn't plan on bringing a computer, she can borrow someone else's to download her photos, if her camera uses a standard cable (such as a USB cable).
Another argument for using Flickr instead of another photo-sharing website is that it is owned by Yahoo, so it will have the financial wherewithal to last for a long time. In other words, by using this site, you have a lower risk of having to switch to another storage site in the near future. For more info on options, consider visiting Digital Photography Review.
Another reader, Vanessa O'Donnell, offers the following tip:
Another option would be to use shutterfly. Photos can be uploaded in the same manner as Flickr but without the cost and prints can be ordered directly from the site. I've used shutterfly numerous times and frequently receive "coupons" from them for things such as 25 free 4x6 or 1 free 8x10
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Another option would be to use shutterfly - www.shutterfly.com - photos can be uploaded in the same manner as Flickr but without the cost and prints can be ordered directly from the site. I've used shutterfly numerous times and frequently receive "coupons" from them for things such as 25 free 4x6 or 1 free 8x10
Posted By Vanessa O'Donnell on June 15, 2007, 3:35 AM
Another option is a video ipod with a photo adapter. It will let you download the photos directly to your ipod. Has to be a video ipod though. What a wonderful experience.
Posted By Nansi on June 15, 2007, 11:47 AM
Does NOT have to be a video iPod, you just have to enable use as a hard drive. (Check your user's manual on how to do this.) Note: You'll need to connect both the camera and the iPod to the computer via their USB ports, then transfer photos from the camera to the iPod.
Went to Asia last year and transferred the day's pictures onto my ancient non-video 20g iPod using the hotel's computer. Didn't even have to pay since I wasn't using the Internet! (Repeated the experience this year in a different part of Asia, really expands how many photos you can take.)
Posted By Kyle on June 20, 2007, 6:23 PM
Yet another option is to use the "Photo Safe" product from Digital Foci. It comes in a 40GB and 80GB model and supports several types of digital camera cards. It's no-frills and you cannot view the images, but it will quickly download files from the card and also serves as a fairly fast USB drive when connected to a PC.
Posted By Kathe on November 5, 2007, 1:23 PM
Epson P2000... I promise you it's a great deal.
I took one all over Europe and loved it but since then have upgraded to a small Sony Vaio.
Ipod for photo use drains the batteries fast and are unreliable.
Shutterfly is awesome by the way.
Posted By Tyler on November 5, 2007, 2:16 PM
Back in 2004, I bought this thing called an Archos Gmini 400. It's a small MP3 player that also plays video. I got it before the iPod video came out, and I wanted to play my TiVo shows on it. I got it for one other reason: It has a Compact Flash slot on the side, so I can dump the day's shots into its 20GB hard drive. I took thousands of photos in Africa, and never needed to bring my laptop!
Posted By Johnny on November 6, 2007, 12:44 AM
Also - you can find 1 gig and 2 gig memory cards on Amazon and Overstock for SUPER cheap. I recently bought a 2 gig one for my camera for $12! One or two of those, and she won't have to upload photos to the web as often. Flickr is absolutely worth it, though. The pro account is cheap, and then you can organize your photos as you're uploading them, and share them very easily.
Posted By Addy on April 7, 2008, 12:29 PM