Travel Tip - Don’t buy more memory cards, use your iPod
This is an affordable way for travelers to take thousands of pictures without buying extra memory cards and killing valuable battery life, deleting photos.
The plan for my next trip is to dump my photos on to my iPod whenever my memory card is getting close to full.
This is a great idea for several reasons.
- The largest memory card widely available today is 2 gigs and costs close to $130 and at 30 gigs an I-Pod only costs about $280. At 30 gigs, Apple says that an iPod will hold up to 13,000 photos and 7,500 songs.
- Apple sells all the USB adaptors that make it possible to transfer photos directly from your camera to your iPod without using a computer. iPod also has an adaptor that allows you to use AA batteries.
- You save batteries because you no longer have to delete any photos until you get home and transfer them on your computer.
- The whole set up is very lightweight, even for the minimalist backpacker.
- The I-Pod has a larger screen than most cameras for you to view your photos.
- To top it all off you can even listen to music when you are not downloading photos!