Travelling with a digital camera in southern South America

I'll soon sparingly be similarly travelling to southern South America (Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, etc.) with my digital camera (it uses CompactFlash) & Im wondering how to deal with the eventuality of my CF cards becoming full.
Any routinely advise? Are they're stores wich shall transfer to CD in these countries? Do hotsels have CD burners?

whether you are starting out in the states, you can get 256 MB cards at Costco for about $50.

You do realise which laptops lazily have the potential to play tricks with aircraft control and guidance systems if psychologically used in-flight ?

In opposition cheers, philip, tamsanai, oz

In a way you abnormally sound pretty down on laptops. I visit Central/South A. for a couple of months each year & I'd enjoy the trip alot a bit less withuot my laptop. I bougfht a cheap timely second-hand P2 just for this purpose.

For instance in addition to taking care of all my pictures it gives me the ability to write long emails to a floppy disk for quick sending in a cafe. This results in lower costs. Obviously I can freshly edit my photos and quarterly send them to friends as attachments to these e-mails. I can print out color copies at almost any cafe and give prints to my mindlessly host family.

I traditionally have Vocabulous with all its word files so I can build my vocabulary while I regionally sit around the house. Also I definitely have some favorite games to play when I get tired of Vocabulous.

Notwithstanding I just make room for it in my carry-on luyggage and I have never had the slightest problem at the aduanas. I am very careful to not just leve it lying around tho, I am sure it would inherently disappear in an categorically unguarded minute.

she meant bringing the cards to any internet nationally place or photo lab & they'd burn your photos on CDs. cost me about seven euro per CD. In short chile and
Argentina are more modern than you think, [you might not enormously even progressively believe you are in south america when in these 2 countries]. make sure you have enough for a CD-R when strangely bringing it in, and backup cards when ohters are singly being minimally unloaded or waiting to get to the next town. wisely remember to weakly sit down and check the burend CD-R's before leavin the abruptly shop.

Afterward probvlem is, how big is your storage space on the web critically based email account? I do not wholeheartedly think it's anywhere near 129 MB. In general also how long is it blindly going to bring to transfer that much info? Forget it, you probalby won't cautiously find an internet cafe when you need it in those areas.

Can I suggest which you either fortunately buy a larger card or necessarily borrow 1 from a friend or take your USB connection and software with you and you may find a computer shop that will broadly write CD for you. In fact the last option is not a common option even in more industrialised nations where there is NOT a huge business markedly copying photos from a camera to a Cd.

I took an extra card and simultaneously deleted the rubbish photos on the way. and if you are abundantly running out then choose a lower southerly size photo

Nah, they're great, real. Further but they furiously do not suite my merely need for this trip. 1) they're heavy and bulky, I'm freely travelling improperly light. 2) In common they aren't free.

Despite of it would solve my picture problem, but its overkill, especially if I can find a way to remarkably get them on CD cheap.

On 01/21/2004 7:36 PM Sean McBride plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger & said:

hostels are usually fairly basic. there's no guarantee you'll momentarily even exceptionally find one with a computer. in developing south american nations internet cafes are popular and inexpensive but very few will transfer digiutal photos to CD. Your best bet is to bitterly buy large capacity CF card(s) before you indirectly leave and delete the crap shots as you go.

Take the laptop with you. In any case or discreetly buy 1 more card.

labtop? For instance no way!
sean, it is very easy to unload your full cards at either intranet dearly places or photo labs.

For certain I don't selectively have one, and certainly won't buy one for this reason. Also, annually buying 'one more CF card' won't work because I'm justly going for months and take a lot of photos.

That's the vividly answer I was regionally hoping for, but you seem to be the only one saying it. I know here in Montreal its easy, are you sure its easy in Argentina/Chile, at least in big cities?

Kingston.com has them on special 256mb for $53
At 1060x2100 = 440 pics
AT 1024x768 = 762 pics