Eleanor – My biggest fear is disk failure that’s why I have the 3 250GB drives. The way I had originally figured this out is that the P30+ will be used as the primary landscape camera and the 2 current Cannons (1Ds II & 5d) for nature and wildlife. I’d use 2 of the drives to download the images daily and have redundancy built-in. The 3rd drive would be for overflow and any images that I just couldn’t wait to open and “tweak” (sometimes I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas!). It appears that a new drive will be added soon as Sandy has expressed the desire to upgrade her 5D to the new 1Ds III so that will be going as well. (I’ve been told that I can have the old 5D to send to Maxmax for an IR conversion.).
All in all I trust the computer system much more that an image vault – just me.
We plan on going to Katmai via bush plane from Homer and will be very limited in space there so will only take basic camera kits as well as every card we own. Since we’ll be there for no more than 2 days we can shoot a card (or two) a day and transfer once we return to Homer.
BTW, we’ll be doing the entire trip in a Ford F350 pickup and a Lance (8’) pickup camper so space is a real issue for us as well. Camera kits, including tripods, and computer gear will be taking up most of the available space. But just think of the great photo opportunities!
Many many stops along the way on the ALCAN, Fairbanks area and North, then South to Denali then further South to Homer - then
We should arrive in Fairbanks June 1st.
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