Digital camera on holiday - how best to save pics?

Mum_on_a_mission_2

I'm off shortly to a magical holiday with Mickey - its our 4 year olds first big holiday so we are bound to go mad on the pics front!

I'm not wanting to buy more memory cards for the camera (Olympus Camedia) and not overly keen on carting my laptop to download to.

Any other ways to store a lot of photos - we are away for 2 weeks - flash drive maybe?

I thought I'd ask someone who has been there and done that first!

Moam

pistonbroke

The cheapest way would be to either take the laptop or buy more memory! My digital camera can take two memory cards and can save 1000 pics at max res or 5000 at a decent 6MP equiv res....

THe other alternative is to buy an expensive Archos media player or something similar that has a Hard Drive in.

There is an alternative though I just thought of, you could go to the equivilent of Boot's and get the images transferred onto a CD or DVD...

Fonz_2

Alternatively, are you going to be going anywhere with web access on a regular basis? If so, you could open one of the free upload accounts from photobox, smugmug, etc and just upload each evening.

alanclose

If you are uploading lots of pics each night to a web service it will take a while, especially if they are high quality. Your idea of a USB key is fine but you'll need quite a big one. Most cyber cafes will allow you to burn CD's - maybe thats the way to go, or use a kodak picture kiosk as mentioned above.

Pistonbroke's idea of using your mp3 player is also a good one. Just make sure its plug and play, I doubt many computer access points will allow you to install drivers

moonrakerz

If you are visiting Mickey in the US. Go to almost any drug store, CVS/Walgreens etc, and they will have a Kodak machine where you can copy your camera card to a CD for a couple of dollars.

ShirleyPark_2

Memory cards are pretty cheap these days I'd be tempted to buy more cards.

The other thing I've done when I've run out of space is like alanclose says and burn the photos to CD.