Photo Downloader?

[GuyF]

Hi everyone,
I heard somewhere about these 'photo downloaders' which you can take out with you and put your memory card into to store all your photos. Last weekend when I was at Portland I kept running out of space on my memory card so missed a few photo opportunities while I was deleting shots. I was wondering if anyones got any information on one of these downloaders, I don't want anything particularly fancy, as long as it does the job and can store probably around 2000 photos (if that's possible). I haven't got a clue how much these things cost so I don't know about a price range at the moment.
Many thanks
Guy

[nightshade]

Have a look Warehouse Express - We will not be beaten on price - Photographic Equipment, Digital Cameras, Lenses and Accessories

[Walwyn]

A 40GB 2.5 in palm held HD will cost about £90. Which I'd sort of thing about if I was going away for a couple of weeks or more.
Vosonic - Multimedia Viewer and XS Drive Portable Storage Devices

OTOH I can store 260 hirez jpeg photos on a 1GB card and they cost about £10 each. So you might think about just getting a couple of extra ones.

[GuyF]

Thanks for the links, they look like pretty good bits of equipment. I think I may have to get one before the summer holidays, but I will also consider getting another memory card.
Thanks both for your help
Guy

[Paul mabbott]

I think that a spare card (or two) is the easiest - and lightest option. I have recommended before that if you are buying cards &c do it abroad: they seem to be 20-50% cheaper in Spain and France .... I've never checked out the internet of course ....

Originally Posted by GuyF

Thanks for the links, they look like pretty good bits of equipment. I think I may have to get one before the summer holidays, but I will also consider getting another memory card.
Thanks both for your help
Guy

[eeyore]

A generic 1GB compact flash from 7 day shop is £17 notes - this is pretty representative of internet prices - you can get cheaper but beware of very cheap products which tend to fail often

this means that if you only want a couple of gb then extra cards are the way to go - however in terms of price per gig downloaders are much cheaper .

basically if you are only out for the day then cards will do but a week or so away will need a downloader - however if you are going treking in the back of beyond - downloaders take power meaning lots of spare batteries , in that case lots of spare cards will be a cheaper and lighter option.

[nightshade]

Originally Posted by GuyF

Thanks for the links, they look like pretty good bits of equipment. I think I may have to get one before the summer holidays, but I will also consider getting another memory card.
Thanks both for your help
Guy

The spare memory card route is lighter and easier to store,
you could buy a lot of them for the price of a downloader

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by nightshade

The spare memory card route is lighter and easier to store,
you could buy a lot of them for the price of a downloader

although it depends on how many pics you are likely to take - say fifteen notes as a ball park figure for a generic 1 GB CF card - you can get a 40GB downloader for about 90 notes - this will buy you 6 gb in cards.

to put it another way 40GB in cards will cost £600 !

most photographers combine the two - I have 4GB in 1GB cards and a further 2 in 512MB cards - this is enough for a weekend away from base

I also have a 40 GB downloader which i use if i am away for longer periods - it all depends on what you are doing and how long you are doing it for.

pros like rouse who are away for months at a time generally use a downloader for during the day back up and also take a laptop to review , edit and back up images each night.

[GuyF]

Thanks for the advice everyone,
This is going to take some thinking, because I'm still not completely sure what to do. If I have enough money I will try both options because I think both would be useful. At the moment I think I only have one 512mb card, possibly 1gb, but still it holds about 230 photos and I used that up very quickly on a nice day out so I can imagine what I'd be like if I was on a week long holiday in France! I will spend some more time researching the two options. Thanks for the advice, it has been really helpful.
Guy

[Kerry]

While searching to buy another memory card I came across this company selling this card:

SanDisk Compact Flash (CF) Card Extreme III 2Gb available @ PriceStorm.com

Is this a decent card?

Thanks
Kerry