Gadgets, Gizmos and Photos

We tend to use big trips as an excuse to get additional bits of camera paraphernalia. This expedition is no exception, though the new gizmo is very 21st century... an iPod. Yes, that's right - an iPod in the camera bag. It turns out that with a nifty connector one can pull photos from most digital cameras to the iPod. No need to lug a computer or invest in huge quantities of expensive photo memory (i.e. microdrives/flash cards).

The data transfer will probably take time and a toll on the camera's battery, but we have chunky memory and backup batteries, so should be able to plan around that. One annoying feature that I haven't yet been able to figure a hack for is that the connector seems to offer the option of only pulling *all* the pictures off the camera, rather than selecting and transferring/deleting user-defined subsets. If the big card's full it could take a while to shift 4GB of images.

To reduce our katundu we're not taking a laptop - hopefully we won't have any trouble finding internet cafes, where we will then hook up said iPod as an external drive and post pictures to Pixamo / the blogosphere.

Though we're not in China yet I've posted some photos from previous trips to an accompanying gallery (also reached via the Images Across The Earth link at the upper right of this blog).