Quote Originally Posted by wetpixels View Post
Good idea. Light around the average campsite is likely to make the screen hard to view.
I find eyestrain because of reflections and bright and or flickering lights is the most bothersome - maybe too many working hours in a darkroom and low ambient light studios and theatres, etc.

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Quote Originally Posted by wetpixels View Post
As for backup of images, I figure the camera and the laptop both have sdcard slots, so why not just buy more of them as I fill up the ones I already have.
If that suits your gear then that's a good idea.

My main point was to suggest that you make an additional copy of the raw file (at least the raw file - I sometimes back-up the JPEGs too as I capture raw + JPEG(L))

I also was suggesting that those back up copies are kept and carried in another place to the storage on the laptop.

I have cameras with various storage media, so I find it easier each evening to transfer the day's contents to the Laptop's HDD and then make a backup to USB Flash Drive - one for each camera I use. Additionally, even though my Notebook has an SD slot, I use very fast cards for my Cameras which use SD cards - and I am not keen to buy more - the USB Flash drives are a cheaper solution for me - even if it means an additional copying time - I don't mind that task as it is set and forget process at wine o'clock each evening.

I think if you are just carrying one camera (or more cameras, but all with SD Cards) and you are not concerned about the speed of the card or paying the money for very fast cards: then just buy more SD Cards and copy each card to the Laptop HDD as each SD Card gets close to full and then use a new SD Card - that's seems logical to me. I think it also probably depends how many shots you typically make each day and how long you expect to be away - traveling by car through France and Italy - eight weeks in 2014 - I pulled about 8000 shots with one camera and another 3000 with second camera: I was generally capturing to 32Gb Cards in Camera, I wouldn't really want a truckload of fast SD Cards and CF Cards to use as my backup storage media; on the other hand USB Flash drives have more versatile uses when I am back home or for my general office and business use.

BTW In case you do not know - it is generally thought that not a good idea to fill any card - I pull mine out of the camera with around 20 shots to go.

WW