shd i buy or borrow / rent?

[digi~ET]

shd i buy or should i rent/borrow cf for trips during year end?

the trip is short, but i am too trigger happy when taking pics of friends^^|.....

any idea where can rent cf?

ha.....tkx in advance!

and to all those i know.......long time no see^^

 

[Bluestrike]

You can try renting a X-drive or stuff like that... it more pratical for you in this case since you are so triger happy. Try Eastgear.

 

[sehsuan]

why not buy some more CF? i'm not sure what camera you're still using - G2? but eventually you'll need a lot of storage some fine day, so might as well stock it up.

i somehow manage to survive on 2 x 512mb cards and still have plenty more space for more after shooting... 400+ shots in Large, Normal compression setting on my 10D.

 

[ST1100]

CF cards are not the only thing you have to worry about. On a short trip (2-3 days), you can get by with a portable harddisk device. On a longer trip (say more than a week), you might want to consider lugging a laptop around as well. An X-Drive should not be your only backup. There's no confirmation, and one drop or accident could wipe out thousands of pictures.

You also have to remember that the Xdrive will only last about 3-4GB of copying before going flat. That means if you're without a power source (eg trekking), even if you Xdrive has a 60GB hdd, you effectively only get 4 gb on the move.

 

[espn]

Eastgear is renting out the Nixvue DA Lite check it out, pretty good prices.

 

[digi~ET]

me going on abt a 5days - 1 week trip to taiwan.......might be carrying my luggage to move to another area.. thats why dun want xdrive or microdrive...i scare i spolit it! it adds on to my worrys........so i think of cf only^^|

currently only got a 256cf....

 

[espn]

I think you might want to cash in on a 1GB or 2GB then Heehee... 1 week for shooting abit hard. My friend went HongKong for 5 days, he came back with 8GB of shots. He was using a X-Drive

 

[digi~ET]

wah.....ok lah...if i got xdrive or things like that...me too^^| few gb pics maybe.

I got laptop, but i think a bit craz to bring it there right..so heavy...^^|...

i am thinking of borrow / rent 1GB - 2GB cf.......$5/Day......