DSLR Backup

[JRDailey]

Heading out on vacation soon and won't have a computer with me, (not buying a new laptop right now).    How can I save / backup my pictures and take them home to load into my PC  ??

Thanks ,   John

[rs-eos]

Does your camera have dual card slots?  That makes for a nice backup system.

Do you have an iPad or iPhone? There are adapters/card-readers that allow you to sync images to these devices (though it may be limited to JPEG?)

There are portable drives and other setups where you could offload your cards onto.  Though I'm not familiar with these setups or which brand would be best.

[JRDailey]

No IPhone , Android.   Also read something else , downloading to a usb drive

[Stephen]

Which camera are you using? Knowing that will make it much easier for the community to make the best recommendations! ☺

[JRDailey]

7D also 6D2

[Tronhard · Accepted solution]

Downloading to a USB drive requires you to have a device into which to plug the said USB drive, but you are apparently not taking such a device with you.  If you are going on vacation to a place that that has the facility (i.e. not in the wild) you could go to an internet café and plug a USB drive into their computer to download your images from your cards.  It might be a good idea to take a USB card reader with you in that case.

To me, the simplest and cheapest way is to get a few spare cards for your cameras, (obviously you need both CF and SD cards, based on your cameras) and cycle them through. You should be taking spare ones with you in any case in the event of a card failure at a critical moment.  Then download them to your computer when you get home.  You can get a compact, but robust card holder for storing and organizing them.  That way you have spare cards for future occasions, so it's an investment in the future!

[JRDailey]

Of course, the solution is additional memory cards.   So simple a caveman could figure it out.   Which makes me,,,,,,well I don't know.  Thanks for the help! 

Best regards,   John

[Tronhard]

On behalf of all cavemen, you are most welcome! 😁

[Tintype_18]

Intrigued by the initial question. I might be going down a garden path but, Ricky, is one available for Samsung Android? Would be great for me.

[jrhoffman75]

Remember that extra SD cards don't give you backup, just increased storage capacity. You need a secure card wallet or storage case that you keep in a safe place.

Since you won't have backup capability on travel you should plan on a number of smaller capacity cards vs larger so that if the rare card malfunction occurs you minimize the loss of images.