[at-l] Digital Photos

[Lwop at att.net (LWOP)]

Looks like I will be sending the cards home for my wife to download and
giving the Postal Service a lot of business.  The other options all seem a
bit costly.  With the four cards I should do OK.
Thanks for all the good pointers.
Katahdin without film - I would have to start all over again back at
Springer and get it right the second time around...
Any excuse will do.
Lwop
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From: <janl2@mindspring.com>
To: <Lwop@att.net>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:21 PM
Subject: [at-l] Digital Photos


> >I have a question for those who use a digital camera while on the trail:
Do
> >the computers at most of the libraries have CD burners?  I am just
wondering
> >if I would be able to download my photos without sending the media cards
> >home.  I don't want to email the images because that would take hours or
> >possibly days with my dial up modem.  I did buy four 256MB cards so I
could
> >ship them home and wait for their return but it would be nice to not have
to
> >do that.  How have others managed to handle this?
> >Lwop
>
> LWOP,
> there may be CD burners out there, but I never saw them.
>
> I kept a series of CF cards in rotation and mailed them home. You really
don't have much time in libraries, folks are always waiting.
>
> The mailer system worked surprisingly well. I would sent them Priority in
the Tyvek envelopes, and inside that I would use a carboard Priority
envelope because you can pre-pay those (apparently, you can't pre-pay the
Tyveks.) . My CF card went into the unsealed cardboad envelope, which was
pre-addressed by me to a PO up the AT. I knew my schedule and pace, so it
was best that I addressed them myself.
>
> That way my photo support person could download the CF card, drop in the
cardboard envelope, and drop it in the mail. I wanted the volunteer/helper
process to be as swift, hassle-free and financially painless as possible.
>
> The only time I outran my film was in the Whites. I shot so many pictures!
Hard not to. In Caratunk, it was looking like I might get to katahdin
without "film!" That wouldn't do, not at all. I had to buy 2 extra 64 CF
cards at Walmart, and did I pay! There are much better bargains on the web.
But, I wouldn't trade those blue-sky, ear-split-grinning Katahdin photos for
anything.
>
> I think I carried 3 128s and a 16 CF card (it came with the camera). That
was plenty until...sigh...Franconia Ridge. I also carried my (light) Canon
battery charger and two batteries. On the AT, re-charge opportunities are
frequent, and I don't think I used my second battery more than ten times.
Just don't walk off down the road and forget your charger at the hostel or
restaurant! I kept my charger baggie out, in plain sight, on my pack, to
remind me.
>
> It's a problem for digital users, how to download while hiking. I know
some folks have other methods, bouncing ahead small devices to download
into.  Perhaps in the future there will be a kinship network of photo
"transcribers" just as old AT hands are turning out to transcribe for the
newbies.
>
> And I echo Wench's words.
> Have great walks, you '04 hikers. Fly, be free!
> Nostalgic Shoe
> AT '03
>