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After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size /
fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading images
to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
Do you see any flaws in this idea?

Carl

"cwvalle" <> wrote in
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> After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
> I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full
> size / fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
> How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading
> images to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
> Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
> Do you see any flaws in this idea?
>
> Carl
>
>
>

Yes. If you are out and about 12 hours per day, then you will need to
take a photo about every 100 seconds to shoot 400 frames a day.

If you shoot an average of 300 frames a day, then you will have 6,000
images to process when you return. If you spend only 5 minutes evaluating
and editing each image, then you will require 65 days (8 hrs a day) to go
through all the images.

If you have a day job, and you can only spend an hour a night, then you
will need the better part of 2 years to finish the task.

From a technology standpoint, it sounds pretty nifty though, provided you
don't drop the Ipod and crash the heads.

If full size images take 10 seconds to save (that seems like how long
"Fine" quality takes to save on my 5000), then 400 frames is over an hour
of "on time" for the camera each day, not including time to compose and
meter the scene. Make sure you have plenty of batteries for the camera.

Bob

cwvalle wrote:

> After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
> I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size /
> fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
> How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading images
> to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
> Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
> Do you see any flaws in this idea?

That's a great idea.. But you *do* realize you're still storing
your images on a hard drive that's prone to being dropped and
subject to sharp bumps and jars..

The only real advantage is that the media is MUCH cheaper..

But regardless.. Microdrives and Ipod Drives are designed for the
rigors of day to day use..

I would trust both microdrive and Ipod.. And if I had an Ipod, I'd
definitely go the route..

(Right now I have a laptop with a CD burner.. I can store photos
on the hard drive and archive them to CD while on the road

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:42:08 GMT, in rec.photo.digital "cwvalle"
<> wrote:

>After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
>I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size /
>fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
>How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading images
>to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
>Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
>Do you see any flaws in this idea?

Depends on your shooting habits and subjects. I tend toward 1.4-1.5MB
images with my 5700. That would leave your short of 400 shots if you can't
off load during the day. Also, can you keep and carry the batts you need to
the day with you given your charger resources? I've always used high cap.
NiMh in the MB-5700 battery pack, so I have no feel for normal battery
usage. But even with a Maha quick charger, I find it difficult to keep up
charging enough sets overnight with one charger without getting up in the
middle of the night to swap out batts.

__________________________________________________ ______
Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 ()
http://members.cox.net/egruf
See images taken with my CP-990 and 5700 at
http://members.cox.net/egruf-digicam

"Ed Ruf" <EG*nospam*> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:42:08 GMT, in rec.photo.digital "cwvalle"
> <> wrote:
>
> >After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
> >I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size
/
> >fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
> >How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading
images
> >to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
> >Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
> >Do you see any flaws in this idea?
>
> Depends on your shooting habits and subjects. I tend toward 1.4-1.5MB
> images with my 5700. That would leave your short of 400 shots if you can't
> off load during the day. Also, can you keep and carry the batts you need
to
> the day with you given your charger resources? I've always used high cap.
> NiMh in the MB-5700 battery pack, so I have no feel for normal battery
> usage. But even with a Maha quick charger, I find it difficult to keep up
> charging enough sets overnight with one charger without getting up in the
> middle of the night to swap out batts.
>
> __________________________________________________ ______
> Ed Ruf Lifetime AMA# 344007 ()
> http://members.cox.net/egruf
> See images taken with my CP-990 and 5700 at
> http://members.cox.net/egruf-digicam

I was going to use 4 regular nikon batteries, the 800ma ones
and two chargers, i would have to change the batteries out every nite, once
before dinner and once before bed
the ipod runs off ac so i don't need to charge it
i kind of figured out that I actually would use 512 cf cards and save images
as "Large / fine"
i agree that is a lot of frames, this is new to me and I was thinking of
film frames which I do shoot at 200-400 frames per day. I sort them on a
huge glass table into groups and pull out 200 frames for a slide
presentation out of maybe 2000 frames total - Yes it does take me months to
put one together - usually I show these slides to my best friends once a
year. It takes about 30 minutes to show a years' work. But from the comments
I get it is worth it. This is only a hobby for me.

"cwvalle" <> wrote in message
news:Q2%Kb.7069$ ...
> After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
> I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size
/
> fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
> How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading
images
> to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
> Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
> Do you see any flaws in this idea?

Carl,

I recently went on a two-week trip to Norway, and just as a comparison I
took about 4000 shots, edited down to about 2500 shots during the trip.
These were stored at Basic JPEG quality (full resolution) on three 512MB
cards. No extra memory, just the CF cards. Took three batteries, and
whist I never really needed all three, it was somewhat disconcerting that
after just a few shots the battery went to "half-full". Then it lasted
for the expected duration.

Cheers,
David

"David J Taylor" <david--this-bit> wrote in
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> "cwvalle" <> wrote in message
> news:Q2%Kb.7069$ ...
> > After thinking about microdrive warnings, what about this idea?
> > I will be in China for 21 days, and i plan to shoot Nikon 5700 full size
> /
> > fine 200 to 400 frames per day.
> > How about 4 x 256 CF cards shooting for a day then at evening loading
> images
> > to a 30 or 40 GB Ipod?
> > Charging 4 batteries overnight, and by morning be ready to go again?
> > Do you see any flaws in this idea?
>
> Carl,
>
> I recently went on a two-week trip to Norway, and just as a comparison I
> took about 4000 shots, edited down to about 2500 shots during the trip.
> These were stored at Basic JPEG quality (full resolution) on three 512MB
> cards. No extra memory, just the CF cards. Took three batteries, and
> whist I never really needed all three, it was somewhat disconcerting that
> after just a few shots the battery went to "half-full". Then it lasted
> for the expected duration.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>

That is useful to know
Yeah my nikon F100 and N55 both show early half power signals then keep on
going. I guess it's a philosophy at nikon
Thanks for the input.