3/24/2023 0 Comments Desert sands quickcopyIn my research, the FlashTrax was the device that had been designed with photographers most in mind–the quick copy from a memory card is great, for example. But for most purposes, it will do the trick. I can conceive of a situation in which the FlashTrax would not provide enough field storage–three months in Antarctica, for example, with no access to the Internet. When I get home, I use a USB connection to get the images off the FlashTrax and onto my computer. I make a point of reformatting the flash memory card in my camera, not in the FlashTrax. By the time I’ve filled up the second memory card, the pictures on the first have been copied to the FlashTrax. When my first one gets filled, I slam it in the FlashTrax and press the copy button. The thing holds its charge a pretty long time, and you can also recharge it from a car lighter. It’s survived a nasty backpacking trip, river crossings, sandstorms in the desert, and more. However, my experience is that the thing is quite sturdy. It does have a hard drive in it, so you should protect it from unnecessary bumps and bangs. The FlashTrax thing costs about $400 in the 40 Gigabyte model, so it is not cheap. I use a little device called the FlashTrax with a 40 Gigabyte hard drive and a viewing screen from a company called SmartDisk. I think I’ve come up with a better alternative. Photographers in the field should protect them from sand, moisture, and not drop them. Also worth noting, these cards are magnetic medium and potentially fragile. Drawbacks: somewhat expensive and still limited in the amount of storage (to the ten or fifteen gigabyte maximum). A possible strategy for me would be load up on ten or fifteen of these cards. (You can decide for yourself which you prefer!)Ī 1 gigabyte CF (compact flash) memory card stores something like 140 images for me in Camera RAW plus JPEG. It’s not the point of this story, but the way I work, I don’t always know when I have a good image until second (or subsequent) passes through my files - as is the case with this Yosemite autumn image, which was not my first choice in its set. I certainly can’t tell from the LCD display on my Nikon D70 whether or not I’ve hit the jackpot. By the very nature of the thing, most of these images are discards. I was photographing for about a week and generated thousands of images. It’s pretty similar to another image that I blogged at the beginning of my series of stories about this trip. I took this photo towards the beginning of my recent trip to Yosemite, Owens Valley, and the desert. Yosemite Autumn 2, photo by Harold Davis.
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