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Vacationing with a Laptop and a Digital Camera

Everyone loves digital cameras and the ease of operating without film, but storing all the images can be an issue. At home I like to store them on my laptop and back them up to CDs.

If you are going on vacation for a week and plan on taking lots of pictures, you should know how many images you can you store on your laptop.

Most consumer shoot in compressed JPEG mode, and the images are between 250k bytes and perhaps 1.4M bytes. A 1 GB CF will hold as many as a thousand or more images. If you are like me it is easy these days to shoot a lot of pictures in a very short time. You could buy another CF or transfer the images to your laptop.

Laptops do not hold all that much data. How many gigs of disk capacity do you have left on your personal laptop? The newer ones will come with 40 or even 100 GB drives, but most people don't have ones that new, and many also have a bunch of stuff loaded already. So, check out the size of your HD and see how much space is left for your photos. If your laptop has a CD burner bring extra blank CDs so you can burn the photos. A great little back tool is http://www.secondcopy.com. You could also back them up to your ISPs server.

Another option might be to buy a portable hard drive. You can find them the size of good-sized glasses case. You stick your CF in a slot, turn the gadget on, and dump the CF into the gadget's storage. These range from 20GB to 60GB+ and are $100+.

Stand-alone burners can burn CDs & DVDs, and some will also play DVD movies, audio CDs, etc as well so you can bring your movies and music along while traveling.

If you have a new laptop it might have a fast firewire connection, if not you will need to use the USB connection to transfer the photos.

So, taking a few precautions and planning ahead a little will insure that you get to keep all the photos that you took as a reminder of that wonderful, long ago vacation.

About the Author

David Perlmutter is the founder and CEO of UsedLaptops.com, Inc. ( http://www.usedlaptops.com ) His first portable was a Compaq Plus 20 years ago. UsedLaptops.com, Inc. has sold over 20,000 refurbished laptops to consumers and companies over the last ten years.

How do I record something from my video camera to a blank dvd using my dvd recorder?

It's for a school project and I cant get it to transfer.

It's hard to say as all DVD recorders are a bit different, but lets start with the basics. First of all, make sure the connections are right. Connect the A/V OUT of the DVD recorder to the TV's A/V IN. Take note of which video line you are plugging it into in the TV (is it video 1, video 2, etc). Then connect your camcorder via A/V cables to the A/V IN on the DVD recorder. Sometimes, DVD recorders have two "IN" channels; one in the front is usually Line 2, and the one in the back is usually Line 1, so make note of this as well.
Now make sure the settings in the DVD recorder match that of the connections, go to the respective TV VIDEO channel and go to the DVD recorder menu. If you are using A/V cables rather than S-Video, make sure you specify that in the DVD recorder settings. (A/V cables are those red, white, and yellow ones). Now, set the TV to the appropriate Video channel (Video 1/vidoe 2, wherever you inserted the Recorder into the TV). Press play on the camcorder, and your footage from the camera should appear on the TV screen. Press record on your DVD recorder.

These steps may vary slightly depending on your DVD recorder and TV, but I imagine them to be similar. Good Luck!

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