resolution or quality - FZ20 storage question

[firevsh2o]

I have planed a vacation to Chile in the next month and I go there with my new FZ20 and 1GB of Memory. That are about 400 photos in "fine mode" or about 800 in standard.

I haven't enough time to try out the real differences between the two settings. But I believe that some shots will be good enough with lower resolution or higher compression. But what is the better choice? Will it be best to buy just another SD-Card and leave the cam at it's highest quality settings?

What do you think?

[genece]

Do you go to Chile every year? if not get more cards or sometype of storage,
X drive - Laptop or something. And get another battery or so.
I can take 800 pictures a day when on Vacation.

[PhilR.]

Many vacations are a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. Of course I don't know if that is your situation, but the advice above is good. 400 pics really isn't a lot for a vacation (it was when photography was only on film). Also, I think you should shoot at high resolution only. You never know when a potential Pulitzer prize-winning shot suddenly comes along.....

PhilR.

[shu246]

fer sure bring plenty of battery and memory.

you can of course gain some space by culling bad shots from the card.

[Andy.ro]

i'm sure you can find a studio where you can put your images on a CD straight from the SD card.

[Larry77]

I have the same problem for my upcoming trip to Honduras. I have two 512 cards but that won't be enough. I was thinking about an external drive because I wouldn't dare take my laptop with me--it's a medical mission to very small villages. I do plan on filtering out some bad shots with my PDA but I know 1gb or so won't be enough storage.

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced durable external drive for us?

Thanks

[firevsh2o]

Thank you for your answers. I think I take my 35mm camera with me now too (it offers more wideangle and I think that may be of importance) and maybe I'll find a cheap sd card in a shop near by.

[shu246]

was in costa rica last month. internet cafes are not hard to find. many hotels have machine(s) for guest internet use. as andy.ro comments, if you brought along a card reader and usb hard drive or some r/w cd's you would likely find a computer someplace you could use to move files from the camera cards to other media.

[genece]

I use one of these, its a stand alone card reader and it holds a laptop harddrive.
Vosonics X drive

HArd drive

[jer99]

I just bought a Kingmax 60x 1 Gig SD card at NewEgg for 70.00. 2 Gigs of memory should do ya.