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okay i asked DH this question a few nights ago and he didnt have an answer for me...so ill ask you guys....
we were discussing what kinds of cameras to bring... and i really want to bring the digital. but...once my digi is full....then what?? we dont own a laptop (YET) so what do i do with the pictures ive taken??? is there a place in disney that i can email my pics to myself or...should i just stick to the old timey non digi phones that ill have to wait until i get home to develop.... i dont even wanna know what it costs to get them developed there.... ... so....im at a loss as to what to do.... i am gonna take advantage of the photo pass of course.... and hope to have a ton of those pictures to back up what i take...but i just dont know what to do about my digital...am afraid that it will be a one day deal and then not touch it until i get home ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Also remember that you can copy your photos from your camera memory card to CD at any of the theme park's camera centers. It costs about $12 plus tax.
you could also look into getting a couple of extra memory cards/sticks for your camera...
depending on how long you'll be there and how many photos you might take that or the CD at Disney would work (personally you can never have too many memory cards for the camera)
Dh and I decided on our 2005 trip to purchase a 1GB memory card (which we got for just under $100) and try to fill it up! Every night when we had a chance we would go through the pics on the camera and delete any that we didn't like or were really bad.
Once we got home, we had plenty of memory left and I had a TON of pics. to develope.
If you are also using the photo pass and get a larger memory card, I would think you would be ok. Once we purchased the 1GB card, we sold the smaller cards on E-bay and made a little extra cash. We had 4 smaller cards that we sold.
you could also look into getting a couple of extra memory cards/sticks for your camera...
depending on how long you'll be there and how many photos you might take that or the CD at Disney would work (personally you can never have too many memory cards for the camera)
If you keep your eyes open, you can find memory cards for pretty cheap.
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I picked up a second 1 GB memory card at Staples last week for just under $20. With the two 1 GB cards I have about 1200 photos available to me. However, they also had a tower available, semi small that was 40 GB and you could download your memory cards to that each night, it was around $100. I almost bought it, but in the end I decided the cards should be enough. But, if you want tons of pictures that might be the way to go.
In the current I-Pod craze, if you own one of those that has a larger hard drive, you could get an adapter and download those photos you want to keep to it when the card gets full.
An extra card is a must on all digital cameras, if for no other reason than to have a spare in case something happens to the one you already have. Being a computer-like device, it doesn't take much for something to go wrong....
We have a huge memory card for our digital, but I still take the regular camera because I like the quality of the regular pictures better for scrapbooking.
Like any other question, this one has multiple answers, and you must search through to find the one that fits your personality and touring habits best.
My personal solution is this:
I have multiple memory cards, each enough to take at least one full day of average shooting. I carry a spare with me every day, since they are small and light.
I have a laptop and download my pics from the memory cards each evening.
If I did not have a laptop, my memory cards total about 4-6 days of average shooting. Once the cards were half full (every 2-3 days), I would have them downloaded to CD, which can be done at any of the 4 camera stores in the theme parks, or at the Kodak Imageworks in Epcot. However, I always have a car at WDW, so I would go off-site instead and download my pics to CD at one of the local Walgreens stores, which have 24-hour photo centers. Prices at WDW are $12.99 per CD, but Walgreens only charges $3.99 per CD.
The most important piece of advice I can give to anyone is never to put all your eggs in one basket - split up your pics on multiple memory cards, CD, whatever, so that if one piece of media is lost, stolen, or damaged, you will not lose all of your pics in one shot.
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My 512 mg card held over 400 pics last Disney trip with space still left. I have my camera on the highest quality setting and it's a 5mp. I was amazed at how many pics it held.
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My 512 mg card held over 400 pics last Disney trip with space still left. I have my camera on the highest quality setting and it's a 5mp. I was amazed at how many pics it held.
And that can be a horrible trap.
It sounds to me like you had all the pics from your whole trip on that one memory card. But ask yourself this - what would have happened if the card went bad? If the camera was lost, stolen, or dropped into the water at POTC? If someone in your party accidentally hit "Delete All" instead of just "Delete"? You would have lost ALL the pics from that trip!
That's why I always recommend having several smaler memory cards instead of one huge memory card; by splitting up your pics, you are less likely to lose them all in one shot if something goes wrong.
My preference is to never have more than one day worth of pics on any one memory card; this is easy for me, since I have a laptop with me at WDW and download my pics to the hard drive each day, so I only need a few memory cards. But even if you don't have a laptop, you can still buy enough 512mb or 1gb memory cards for each day of your trip.
I once had someone argue with me vehemently that my strategy was dumb because all of the full memory cards would still be in your camera bag, which is just as likely to get lost or stolen or fall off the boat into the Seven Seas Lagoon as the camera itself. My reply to that, of course, was simple - leave the full memory cards in the hotel room safe, same as you do with extra cash, travel documents, or credit cards that you won't be needing on the trip.
It's also a good idea to back up your pics on CD, which can easily be done at any of the theme parks, or at one of the off-site Walgreens or WalMart stores in the WDW area. This gives you an extra layer of protection in case your camera bag gets stolen or lost during the trip home.
I am bringing my digital for the first time this time as well, and we will have a laptop with us also. I am excited to download them right away.
However, if you do use regular film, and you have a car while you are there- you can always do 1 hour developing while you are there at Walgreens or Wal-Mart. We did this and had all our pictures to look at right away on the way home. We stayed off site at a condo with my parents. There was a wal-greens right across from the entrance to the resort and we dropped of the film on our way back each night and went back for them 1 hour later. It was great!
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Every night when we had a chance we would go through the pics on the camera and delete any that we didn't like or were really bad.
If you keep your eyes open, you can find memory cards for pretty cheap.
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