Aug 6, 2008, 20:14
Matthew: When I go on holidays for 2 weeks, and spend a lot of time and fortune to get somewhere, you want to see all, do all and photograph all. My wife and I are typically after breakfest marching out of the hotel by 8 AM and we do not open the hotel door again until 10:30 PM. I shoot over 100 photos a day, RAW, 14 bit. You do the math. Having cards is too expensive. Pavel
NT: Thanks for the listings. I wish the prices in pounds were in dollars. I agree with you, I do not need a viewer, I just need a hard drive. My current Epson is a 40 GB drive and with D70s I thought I will never ever need more, but with D300, it is not enough for 2 weeks. another 40 GB would do it, but I suspect I will go for 80 to 100GB. I learned my lessons when I used to read Byte magazine in the early 80ties. A reviewer was going on how you will never ever need this new think called hard drive, which could hold 5 MB of data. That is about 2500 pages of text, you will never, ever need that, said the esteemed reviewer. He also raved about unscrupulous dealers, which were trying to get you to buy 32K or even 48K of RAM! You will never need more than 24 K. Hmm.
Pavel
NT: Thanks for the listings. I wish the prices in pounds were in dollars. I agree with you, I do not need a viewer, I just need a hard drive. My current Epson is a 40 GB drive and with D70s I thought I will never ever need more, but with D300, it is not enough for 2 weeks. another 40 GB would do it, but I suspect I will go for 80 to 100GB. I learned my lessons when I used to read Byte magazine in the early 80ties. A reviewer was going on how you will never ever need this new think called hard drive, which could hold 5 MB of data. That is about 2500 pages of text, you will never, ever need that, said the esteemed reviewer. He also raved about unscrupulous dealers, which were trying to get you to buy 32K or even 48K of RAM! You will never need more than 24 K. Hmm.
Pavel
Please see my photos at http://mullerpavel.smugmug.com (fewer, better image quality, not updated lately)
or at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pavel_photophile2008/ (all photos)