Photo Portable storage - which one?

Greyhound_Man

I have just bought myself a spangly new Canon 20D, but need to get myself some sort of portable storage device. I am going away to India for a month in the new year and plan on taking loads of photos, and am using RAW, so it munches through a 1GB card in no time!!

I am not that fussed either way about having a screen on it, as I know it eats up battery more and battery life is going to be important to me - the main advantage of a screen for me would be peace of mind in checking it has worked, but as long as I can trust it that is no problem really.

Also, I use compact flash but my other half has memorystick, and I would want to download her piccies too.

Has anyone got any thoughts/ideas/recommendations...

Thanks in advance

James

EvilMonkey

Watcha,

I've a (now very old) Image tank I bought in Singpore at the start of some travels a few years ago. These stotrage things are certainly worth their weight!

A couple of thoughts.

You shoot in RAW? Last time I looked, none of the generic ones would be able to actually show the pic (hmmm... unless the canon software embeds a jpg thumbnail into the RAW file?). Nikon produce a storage thing which can show their raw files, I'm not sure if canon does as well?

The best advice I can give is to point you HERE One of the forums on DPReview.com dedicated to storage (cards and drives). Sign up and put in a post with your requirements!

Hope this helps

E.M.

gug_3

If you have a look on http://www.warehouseexpress.com/ under portable storage they have a pretty good list of options.

I am not neccesarily reccomending warehouseexpress, although I have bought from them and they were reliable, but you can get a general idea of what is available.