Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

uploading photo overload

Interest forums / Travel Tech

Hey guys,

About to spend 9 days in Yunnan Province with 1 gig SD card and 5.2 megapixel Cannon Camera. We'll be going to Xishaubanna, Lijiang, and Shangri-la. Was wondering the best means for uploading my photos once my card gets full. If I bring my camera cord will I be able to hook it up to another computer via USB? If worse comes to worse, can I just purchase another SD card? Thanks for your advice!

Where do you plan to upload 1 gig of photos to?
It would take a long time i'd think. Uploading is still not reliable as most places don't have fast enough internet to do this.

Best to get it the photos copied to 2 CDs or a DVD or buy another card i reckon.

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SD cards are now so cheap that it must make sense to take several with you - so when the one you are using gets full you've got a new one at once. Then you can take your time to find a store where you can upload them. Ther's no reason not to carry a few extra. Just make sure you have a clear tag system for identifyinbg used cards from unused ones.

David

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I carry 2x1Gb cards but found editing dud photos out every night works for me.

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