Size of photos transferred from Camera

hjb123

The computer and the camera have no problem with storage - its just trying to back them up and they take up so much room!

espresso

hjb123 wrote:

The computer and the camera have no problem with storage - its just trying to back them up and they take up so much room!

You should think about backing up your pictures to CD/DVD as this is preferable to a hard drive which may crash!

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Little_John

This is a strange one, your complaining that your photo file sizes are too large to fit on a flash drive? buy a bigger flash drive would be my solution I got a 4GB the other week for £55 I think.

Personally I wouldnt reduce the quality of the images your camera is taking unless your not bothered about the quality of the print outs or dont want to enlarge any of them.
What size of memory card are you using? a 512mb card will fit up to that in photos on it and when transfered to a PC will still take that much space so to make a back up of them you need somthing to hold that amount of data. If you open each picture in an art package when you save them the file size will reduce as most software will compress the image even more whihc is great if your tight on space but the compresion has its affects on the quality of the image so again leave it alone if you can.

I would consider somthing more reliable for backup than a flash memory drive CDr or DVDr on a recient holiday I took over 5GB of photos I had my laptop with me not a bucket full of memory cards. I backed them up on a few dvd's. you need to split your photos up, I use a descriptive folder depending on what the photos are of and then back up as many folders I can on a DVD, remember to move the backed up folders to somewhere so you dont go backing them up over and over.