Image Size and email from abroad

[JohnKirby]

My eldest daughter is about to embark on an extensive overseas trip taking in Africa, Europe, Central and South America. She'll be taking a Canon Ixus 850 IS (or 800, depending where you live). As a pro photographer, I'm encouraging her to shoot as large a Jpeg as possible (no more raw, of course), but her main concern is to be able to email images home, as email will be her main form of communication with us. She won't have room in her pack for a laptop.

With connection speed being an unknown in many of the areas to which she'll be travelling, she is probably correct in trying to keep image size down. However, ending up with her trip library being filled with barely printable images I think is a concern.

Anyone know of a way around this? I imagine, too, that she should be taking a small SD card reader to plug into whatever computer she uses for her emails?

Thanks,
John.

[Martin_Kristiansen]

Dont know about South America but in bigger cities in Africa she will be able to burn stuff to disc. Also this can be done in China, India and Tibet.

[JeffONeil]

Originally Posted by JohnKirby

My eldest daughter is about to embark on an extensive overseas trip taking in Africa, Europe, Central and South America. She'll be taking a Canon Ixus 850 IS (or 800, depending where you live). As a pro photographer, I'm encouraging her to shoot as large a Jpeg as possible (no more raw, of course), but her main concern is to be able to email images home, as email will be her main form of communication with us. She won't have room in her pack for a laptop.

With connection speed being an unknown in many of the areas to which she'll be travelling, she is probably correct in trying to keep image size down. However, ending up with her trip library being filled with barely printable images I think is a concern.

Anyone know of a way around this? I imagine, too, that she should be taking a small SD card reader to plug into whatever computer she uses for her emails?

Thanks,
John.

Hi John,

When she's at the cafe the email program will most likely resize for mailing. Since the cafe's most likely will not be high speed that may be the only way to efficiently send the files. On dial up in a foreign country speeds may be very low for uploading. It could end up being quite expensive.

Let her send the resized shots for reference and buy her a slew of SD cards for storage. They're quite cheap and really so small they'll take up little room or weight in the pack.

Jeff

[DigiCamPix]

John,

A potential solution could be to purchase an image tank device to store the higher resolution photos from the SD card(s). Much smaller than a laptop and she could e-mail low resolution photos back home for family and friends.

Regards,
Derek

[JohnKirby]

Thanks for the responses. Image tank, plenty of cards and careful use of internet cafe services seem the way to go.
John.