My wife and I are off on a trip of a lifetime on safari in South Africa and we have also managed to get a ticket to a World Cup match. I have just got myself an all singing, all dancing digital camera to record this trip but what should I do with all the photos we take? How do I back them up?
Thank you for bragging about your wonderful holiday that you and your wife going on. I am sure you will have a fantastic time. You don’t tell me what sort of camera you have bought but I will assume that it is 12 megapixels as that is the average nowadays. With a 8GB memory card fitted you will be able store about 1,500 photos so if you take a spare memory card or two you should be able to store plenty of photos. However, most cameras can now take video clips. These take up much more space than pictures so you may need a larger memory card. You can get cards up to 32GB for most cameras. I would also advise that you back up your pictures and video clips. You can use a small laptop or netbook and connect the camera to it to download the images to its hard drive and therefore clear up the memory card. It’s easier to edit and crop the images on a laptop than on the camera itself. If you don’t fancy the idea of taking a laptop with you I suggest you get a USB memory card reader (about £5 from Amazon). This will enable you to use a local internet cafe to upload your pictures to an online service such as SnapFish where your images can be stored safely. You can even have them print out your favourite pictures in top quality so they’ll be at home when you get back.