First time with a digital camera

626

626

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We are going to bring a digital camera with us on our upcoming trip. My wife wanted me to ask if there is anywhere on (Or close to) Disney property where we can go to upload pictures from our memory sticks onto CDs so that we can take more pictures when we run out of memory.
 
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tigsmom

tigsmom

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Gail Hayden said:
IMHO, Walgreens equipment is crap. I was a manager for Walmart's one hour photo and used to do a LOT of corrections for Walgreens and a few other companies, also did a lot of corrections for the do it yourselfers on the Kodak kiosk. since I left they have installed fuji machines for digital where you do it yourself and do the corrections right there. It is a wonderful machine, give it a try.
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WalMart is the only one who screwed up my pics...the quality of the photos on the CD was horrible! I've had good luck with Eckards here in NY...cd & index prints.

I've got a Fujufilm 256 SD that & bought at BestBuy and a 128 Kodak SD that came free with my camera. I used both of them when we were at WDW and had room to spare.

Now if I could just get my pics to come out 1/10th as good as Daves. (love those fireworks pics)
 
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ClemsonTigger

ClemsonTigger

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Best to do it yourself?

PhotoDave219 said:
Walgreeens - No experience but i wouldnt trust em with my stuff....

Photo Rescue - works wonders. Only used it once, saved my rear.

And yes, ive shot a 1000 pics in a day.
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The other option not discussed here, especially with a mega user like PhotoDave is to just bring your own laptop. Doesn't take much space and all post work is immediately available and free. I'm so used to shlepping mine around it's second nature...just need to avoid the temptation of checking in on this site or work emails while on vacation. :hammer:
 
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Gail Hayden

Gail Hayden

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tigsmom said:
WalMart is the only one who screwed up my pics...the quality of the photos on the CD was horrible! I've had good luck with Eckards here in NY...cd & index prints.

I've got a Fujufilm 256 SD that & bought at BestBuy and a 128 Kodak SD that came free with my camera. I used both of them when we were at WDW and had room to spare.

Now if I could just get my pics to come out 1/10th as good as Daves. (love those fireworks pics)
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If it was a straight data transfer then something was wrong with the pictures to start with. If they attempted correction, then the fault lies with WalMart.
Eckards is usually very good and they are someone I would trust. BUT, you go with what you know and I know WalMart's machines.
 
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Gail Hayden

Gail Hayden

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brich said:
I did one hour lab management for 15 years and did some software consulting for Eastman Kodak. I can make a color correction or two. hehe. Would actually rather just transfer my files as is, to cd to free up my SD cards. Then do my figiting in Photoshop when I get home. Do straight transfers to cd work ok? I just don't want to lose any quality in doing this. I'm thinking I may just pick up a few more cards. I'm sure I can shoot a thousand pictures in two weeks. Last thing I need is to go start printing out pictures down there. I'll go broke and I'll dive my wife crazy... Thanks Gail !! :wave:
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There should not be an loss of quality on a straight data transfer.
I use MS Photo Suite 9 and MGI Photo suite here. MS Photo Suite has some incredible features and "figiting" is a lot of fun with it.
I am sure you will have NO problem shooting a thousand pics in two weeks, I can do that in 2-3 days. LOL I do carry extra CFs with me. And, we take the laptop for the transfer.
 
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rodmansju

rodmansju

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better than a laptop

would be an iPod or similar device. Archos has one called the GMini, it functions similarly.

Both are primarily for music and other audio files. However, both are glorified portable hard drives, and each has an adapter for transfering pics. I believe the belkin adapter for the iPod links via USB to your cam, and the Archos is a multiple memory card reader.

I only offer that bit, because my fiance and I are going to Tahiti for 2 weeks for our honeymoon, and I had just gotten her a Canon digital to complement my own. except that hers uses SD cards, which I have seen pricey and cheap, depending on when you look. I was looking for a reason to buy an iPod anyways, and when I learned it can house my photos-and that photogs are using them for that instead of lugging a laptop-I figured I would give it a spin.
 
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mrtoad

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Gail is correct, if they are doing just a data transfer from your card to CD there should be no loss in quality. I would not get one of the Kodak Photo CDs as they add menus and such and I would not trust that they don't mess around with the images to size them.

Just ask if it is a straight data transfer, if they do not know the answer I would not go there.

The only risk you run having a CD burned vs. bringing extra cards or a laptop or similar storage device is if the photos don't transfer correctly and somethign gets corrupted you are out of luck. By the time you get home and find out you will have already deleted your stuff or your cards.

Just some stuff to think about.
 
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tigsmom

tigsmom

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Gail Hayden said:
If it was a straight data transfer then something was wrong with the pictures to start with. If they attempted correction, then the fault lies with WalMart.
Eckards is usually very good and they are someone I would trust. BUT, you go with what you know and I know WalMart's machines.
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I got beautiful quality prints from them, none were blurry or distorted like the CD. *shrugs*

Now I print my own pics and download my sticks to my zip drive. :wave:
 
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626

626

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rodmansju said:
would be an iPod or similar device. Archos has one called the GMini, it functions similarly.

Both are primarily for music and other audio files. However, both are glorified portable hard drives, and each has an adapter for transfering pics. I believe the belkin adapter for the iPod links via USB to your cam, and the Archos is a multiple memory card reader.

I only offer that bit, because my fiance and I are going to Tahiti for 2 weeks for our honeymoon, and I had just gotten her a Canon digital to complement my own. except that hers uses SD cards, which I have seen pricey and cheap, depending on when you look. I was looking for a reason to buy an iPod anyways, and when I learned it can house my photos-and that photogs are using them for that instead of lugging a laptop-I figured I would give it a spin.
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Are you saying I can upload photos into my mp3 player? It's not an iPod it's a Dell but it works the same way as an iPod. Is it just iPods that you can do that with or any mp3 player? I have well over 10 gigs of free memory in mine. That would solve all of our picture problems if we could do that!
 
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mrtoad

mrtoad

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626 said:
Are you saying I can upload photos into my mp3 player? It's not an iPod it's a Dell but it works the same way as an iPod. Is it just iPods that you can do that with or any mp3 player? I have well over 10 gigs of free memory in mine. That would solve all of our picture problems if we could do that!
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There is an "extra" you can purchase for the ipod that lets you transfer data to it from CF cards. I am not sure if yours would have that. The Archnos I believe has it built in to do it. Check with Dell, they might have the answer.
 
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forbidden donut

forbidden donut

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Burning CD's

I burn my own CD's with a Apacer Disk Steno CP200.
What I like about it is that after it burns the CD it compares what it put on the CD to whats on the card thus confirming a good copy.
It is bigger than a pocket hard drive --but if you drop it you dont loose all of your images.
I bought mine online from B&H for $260.
 
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AEfx

AEfx

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PhotoDave219 said:
Clearly none of you have blown an entire gig of memory on one parade.
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LOL, I don't know many people that would need 800+ pictures of a parade. That's a TINY bit too obsessive, even for me. :)

AEfx
 
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DonickCo

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1 2nd dave, not any camera can even think of shooting 800 pics in 30 min, but his can, i know if i could, i would shoot like that. i have shot over 200 shots on wishes in one night and over 800 pics in one day b4 but not in 30 min.but if i could i would, maybe next year :animwink:
-DonickCo
 
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mrtoad

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DonickCo said:
1 2nd dave, not any camera can even think of shooting 800 pics in 30 min, but his can, i know if i could, i would shoot like that. i have shot over 200 shots on wishes in one night and over 800 pics in one day b4 but not in 30 min.but if i could i would, maybe next year :animwink:
-DonickCo
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I 3rd it. It is well worth taking all those shots to get the few precious perfect ones. I mean think about if you use film (god forbid :lol: ) and you take a roll of 24 shots. How many are keepers, 3, 4, 5 maybe. The percentage is low. So if Dave take 700 - 800 shots he gets 140 - 160 good shots. Well worth it in my oppinion.
 
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shari71

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My husband takes well over a 1000 pictures in a week, usually several hundred a day. With this Christmas vacation, I figure it will be well over 2000-3000 pictures. We usually bring a laptop to store them on. This year if we have an internet connection, we will probably upload the most important ones to www.flickr.com so we have a backup. But we also bring several cards, but with the new camera I think we only have two 1 GB. $12.99 for a CD is just too much for us. Depending on how many photos you think you are going to take is the key to deciding.
 
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AEfx

AEfx

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Hehe how times change. :) (Oh, and Holy Necro-thread, Batman!)

In one of my posts above I said I had just gotten some 512MB cards for $80/each - and now they are half that price (just picked up a couple for $39).

With the price of downloading, the advice of "pick up some more cards" is more accurate than ever.

AEfx
 
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