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[Colin B]

I have just bought my Nikon B700 and have been spending some quality time with the manual to find my way around its features. The Snap Bridge is intriguing but I am not convince it is particularly useful.

 

I do not own a smart 'phone and certainly do not walk around everywhere with one. When we travel I carry an I-Pad and on previous trips I have periodically uploaded photos to the I-pad where they are backed up on i-Cloud. On returning home I upload all the photos to my desktop computer, sort and edit them and delete the rubbish.

 

If I let my Nikon camera upload its big files to the I-Pad they will chew up a lot of bandwidth uploading to i-Cloud and if I am paying for data, on a 'phone or on a cruise ship that will cost a bomb. On my last big overseas holiday I shot 4GB worth of photos with the Fuji at 2.5kb per image. translate that to the Nikon's 8.46GB images and that is 13.5GB which is a fair bit of data.

 

How do you guys handle photos on holiday?

 

Life was simpler when we just brought home a swag of exposed film (remember that??  ) and took it to the chemist to see what we had got but, of course, no-one would want to go back to those days.

 

 

[TBonz]

My laptop and a portable disk...but in reality it depends on what / when I am shooting...If I'm spending a long weekend taking some fun images, I may not want to spend the time or effort to carry the computer.  No need if I am not going to have the time to go through the images.  If I'm spending that same weekend shooting an assignment, then I will likely need to be providing images so I'll have my editing tools available...

 

Snap Bridge should be able to selectively upload so if you find a few images you want to put on your iPad, you should be able to selectively do that...

[ScottinPollock]

How do you guys handle photos on holiday?
 
Life was simpler when we just brought home a swag of exposed film

Well, that doesn't really have to change... SD cards are cheap enough these days, so just carry a handful of them.

[Colin B]

Well, that doesn't really have to change... SD cards are cheap enough these days, so just carry a handful of them.

True. The simplest solutions are often the best ones.

[MJL]

Well, that doesn't really have to change... SD cards are cheap enough these days, so just carry a handful of them.

Exactly.

 

I seldom travel with a laptop or tablet.  SD cards are cheap enough now that I carry at least 3 X 32G SD cards when I travel.  I replace them every 2-3 days and store it separately from the camera.  That way even when the camera was stolen, lost or busted, I still have some photos with me.

 

I will also back up the photos onto a secondary memory card if the camera has 2 slots.  All memory cards will act up at some point and chew up the photos.  This is one of the great thing about digital camera.  I can never back up an image inside a film camera.

[TBonz]

I messed around with SnapBridge and my D500 last night.  It gave me the option of automatically transferring images or transferring individually.  When I selected an individual image to transfer, it gave me the option of the original image or a 2MB image.  So it might be a useful way to transfer quickly for sharing or to backup important images.

 

I bring the extra gear if I have to...not because I want to !  If I am away and shooting an assignment, I still need to be able to process the images and get them where they need to be...In those cases just changing cards and waiting until I return home is not an option...

[Merco_61]

When travelling on vacation, I usually just bring enough memory cards.

When travelling on assignment, OTOH, I bring a laptop so I can start the selection process and edit the most important shots while away. The bulk of postprocessing work, however, is done on return home in a controlled environment on a large, calibrated screen.

[Colin B]

Sportsguy's and Nikonian's post highlight the major difference between professionals and amateurs.

 

My latest (probably heretical) thought on this is that I probably will not bother with Snapbridge at all and will just carry spare SD cards as others have suggested.

 

Being even more heretical in this gadget-obsessed age I wonder if Nikon may have served us better by putting the effort used to develop Snapbridge into improving other more practical aspects of the camera like lenses, processors etc.?

[Ron]

I've never used Snapbridge but the impression I get from most people who've tried just about any of Nikon's networking solutions is that the hassle factor often outweighs any perceived benefits.

 

I agree with the idea of bringing plenty of memory cards and then sorting your pictures out after you've come home and have time to relax.

 

--Ron