It’s a traveling nightmare. You’ve taken tons of photos of all the places you’ve been and good times you’ve had then BAM! Someone takes your camera, or your memory card stops working and all your great photographs and videos are gone. It’s happened before and it will happen again. That said, there are some ways to prevent yourself from being a victim.
This week on the Friday Five, I’ve got 5 tips for you to help you back-up your photos and videos on the road so that you can ensure they return home with you.
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Hey Brock,
Great tips.
Photo quality is still compromised on Flicker. I think Dropbox is great. I use it for photos and files.
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service that enables users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. So your files are accessible any where that there is Internet service.
Another point that I would make is consider the camera you are going to take. Many cameras now come with GPS and use a technology called Geo Tagging. Often we forget or get mixed up on where some pictures are taken. Geo Tagging will give you the exact (absolute) location of the photo (Latitude and Longitude). Great way to document photos for later reference.
Yes, great tips.
You only mentioned it in passing, but taking your memory card into a store that can burn the files onto a DVD is a cheap and easy option if you down’t want to carry a computer. It’s a good idea to check the DVD on another computer just to be sure the DVD is good.
When I bought my new camera, I decided to buy multiple, smaller memory cards instead of one big one. By having three 16Gb cards, I used the first one for the first third of my trip, and then stored it away with other valuables (like my passport) and switched to the second card, and so on. By doing this, you preserve at least part of your trip if your camera is lost or stolen without having a backup.
Great tips! These days we make sure to always store our photos on two separate external hard drives, we need a big memory to store our videos, but we have definitely thought of storing our photos on smaller memory cards instead.
Since I’m not in a continuous state of travel like you, I usually back-up to two separate but clones external hard drives when I get back from the trip. Usually on the trip I have multiple memory cards and cameras and tend to just risk it until I get back. … not the best idea though. Great tips.
oooh…love the idea of this Dropbox you speak of….realistically, if you have someone on the other end “pulling these folders out of the cloud” and backing them up at home, then you really have no need for further backups…true?