Jean-Claude

Except if the ones that are mailed don't make it out of the country. Uploading to the cloud seems to be the best bet to ensure the data won't get lost.

Good morning Dieter!

Would you be so kind to explain on how to download a 32Go memeory card to the cloud, in a few words? The clooud is new to me.

Thank you.

As to paranoia.

When I learned english, some 50 years ago, I remember the teacher saying "better safe than sorry". He didn't mention "paranoia".

Walking in the middle of the day on 5th Avenue in NYC with a camera, is one thing. Walking with the same camera in the Bronx is another thing.

I have been travelling the globe for about 45 years now, mostly in remote places in poor countries and alone. Have been arrested in Cuba because of spying (!), assaulted in Buenos Aires in the middle of the day on a big boulevard, assaulted in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, stopped plenty times by local police in Benin, Burkina, South Afica, Madagascar etc. In poor countries people are poor and so are the policemen (very low salary and never paid on time).

If you are white man, travelling alone in those countries especially in remote places, you are definively at risk, so you have to be aware of a few things. If I had any paranoia I would not travel this way on and on. I just try to protect what brought me to travel: photography (and authentic tourism).

By the way, in Africa a "nice car" is the one that is not falling apart like the "taxi brousse" (mostly 40+ years old) and is younger than 10 years old. Moreover I didn't say the police wasn't nice. You get accused of transporting drugs with a smile in Marocco until you pay "bakchich". To avoid this you better put a banknote in the documents you asked for..If not, they take your car apart and it might well last a couple of days.....Regarding corruption, Madagascar is the worst country, also one of the poorest on earth.

These are not stories but a lfew experiences of my long experience cruising the world off beaten tracks.

As to paranoia.

Walking on 5th a

An alternative would be to use the apple SD card reader plus a flash drive with a lightning connector.

 

Copy files from camera to ipad and then backup iPad to flash drive. Finally delete files from iPad

 

Flash drives are pretty small and could be easily concealed upon your person (think back passage)if you thought you might be mistaken for a spy.

Thank you Ludmilla, I learned something from you. I now will have a closer look on both solutions you mention.

Why not get several smaller cards (8 or 16), then post them back to yourself at your base address when they are complete ? That way, you can only lose one card.

Very good idea and cheap! Thank you.

Thank you Ben.

The problem is not carrying many memory cards because what can you do if the last day of a 1 month trip, your suitcase disappears of your photo gear in its bag is stolen?

What if a policeman in Africa stops you in your nice car accusing you of spying because of your ice camera and lenses and takes your memory cards?

How can I make a back up on a daily basis of my shots having no computer and recover all once back home? That’s my question?

The Apple system you mention does not allow many Raw shots (my Airpad has only 16Go all in all which means maybe 10 left open.)

Thank you.

No, I am not but I had a bad experience lately and I do not want to repeat it.

Thank you.

I want to be able to save my photos while being abroad, so should I ever loose my memory card or be it taken by the police (it happened!), I always have a back up that I could save every night for exemple. Once back home, recover the pictures saved while I was abroad.

Thank you.

Yeah, most places that would have cables should have memory cards.

 

If only a cable is available, you should be able to hook up to the iPad and drag the files over, or use the photo app., or ....

 

Of course much depends on the specifics of your camera and the model of the iPad, etc.

the camera is a Nikon D610, the IPad is an IPad Air 2.

Rule one - always carry spare memory cards / batteries / lint-free cloths !

 

Without knowing your DSLR make, it is difficult to respond to your query. BTW, if you can buy a cable, why can't you buy a memory card ?

Thank you but you do not answer the question.

You buy the cable while you are at home before leaving. Obvious , no?

Moreover, did you never loose or forget anything?

Travelling a lot I wonder on how to proceed to download a full memeory card because there is no possibility to buy another one hile being in a remote place and the end of the world?

Is it possible to buy a connecting cable between my DSLR camera and my IPad and then download part of a 32Go card on my IPad ? How would you do that?

What ever the method you suggest’ please indicate on how to recover my pictures on my computer once home ( I have no laptop ) !

Thank you so much.

I own mine since 1995 and never had any kind of problem with it. I use it on Nikon F6 and D610. Very easy to handle, lighweight and aperture ring, hurray!

Wanna see some pictures?

it might feel that this lockdown situation has left our cameras totally superfluous while we can’t get out to shoot the things we would usually take pictures of. Not being able to go out means we have nothing to take pictures of. Right?

Wrong!

Just because we can't get out and about like we normally would, doesn’t mean we have to stop taking pictures. There’s still plenty you can do, provided you're prepared to use some imagination

OTE="jean_claude_watry, post: 5826727, member: 4174597"]Lockdown pictures on www.dpreview.com

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might feel that this lockdown situation has left our cameras totally superfluous while we can’t get out to shoot the things we would usually take pictures of. Not being able to go out means we have nothing to take pictures of. Right?

Wrong!

Just because we can't get out and about like we normally would, doesn’t mean we have to stop taking pictures. There’s still plenty you can do, provided you're prepared to use some imagination

OTE=jean_claude_watry, post: 5826727, member: 4174597]Lockdown pictures on www.dpreview.com

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Very very nice. Congratulations!

I wrote confined more as a joke although we are not allowed to move from one region to another.

I am in Cap Skiring’ very popular place because of Club Mediterrannèe, french famous club that exists all over the world. The place is tiny’ people very much smiling the whole day. We have to wash hands all over the places, get a thermometer pistol on the forehead but apart from that, life is very easy going.

Better here than in Brussels, France or worsé Spain !

I live in Brussels, Belgium but for the time being I am confined in Senegal, Africa for another month. Nothin to complain about, all is fine.

A friend of mine living in Brussels just sent me the US link below referring to the Covid 19. The world is so small...

www.sandanduseless.com/recreated-art.

Enjoy!