What experience and recommendations do you have for digital media storage devices?
Instead of investing in an IPod, unless you want it for other purposes too, I’d just buy multiple memory cards of the largest size I could afford. They’re small and easily packed. You will want to watch the X-Ray machines at airports for them like you do for other electronics. Many cameras come with a smaller size card and should be replaced if it’s found to be inadequate anyway. Below is a chart of the number of pictures/card for various sizes of cards and resolytion of camera. See if that helps. Digital Image Calculator: Camera Type Approximate Number of Pictures* per Card 3 Megapixel 213 426 853 1706 3412 4 Megapixel 128 256 512 1024 2048 5 Megapixel 102 204 409 818 1636 6 Megapixel 80 160 320 640 1280 8 Megapixel 64 128 256 512 1024 12 Megapixel 40 56 128 256 512 Card Size 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB *Number of images per card will vary. Chart is based on “high-resolution” camera settings. You can approximately double you picture count by shooting with normal lower-resolution sett
Use your iPod to listen to Coldplay! I found the ipod to be too slow. I got one GB of data transfer per charge on the ipod battery. Not worth it, especially given the hard drive failures on them. I decided iPod was not the way to go. I looked at the Canon media storage device M80 http://www.photokina-show.com/0427/canon/usbflashdrive/canonm80/ Expensive, but it is rugged and has a great viewing screen. It is easy to use, but because of the price, I couldn’t justify the price. Instead I went with the Smartdisk flashtrax. See review here: http://www.dcviews.com/reviews/Flashtrax/Flashtrax-review.htm
