Using computers but not internet in iLounge.

[GottaKnowWhen]

Is it possible to use the computers in the iLounge on Celebrity to connect an SD card reader and hard drive to back up camera images? If so do they charge. I read elsewhere that their computers do not have USB ports but I guess the writer was not familiar with where the ports are on iMacs.

 

I'd ask Celebrity this but (a) they would take 2 weeks to answer and (b) from experience their answer would most likely be wrong.

 

Probably yes you can. I asked on Infinity, was told sure no problem. I didn't ask on Millennium because I had come up with a different set of back-up solutions.

1. I shoot RAW + JPEG. The jpg files (smaller size) are copied onto my iPad daily. Reviewed, many deleted. Original jpegs left on the card.

2. RAW files are never moved. I carry 10-20 64GB cards with me for a trip, depending on trip length. At about 1100 RAW files per card, that gives me capacity for over 20,000 images.

3. Meanwhile, just to be safer, I have a 2tb drive that has an SD card reader incorporated. So I copy the RAW SD cards to the HD once a card is full.

 

So, I have my RAW originals on the SD cards, I have a backup on the 2tb drive, and if those both fail I have the "keepers" in jpg form both on SD cards and on the iPad.

[Iamthesea]

Hope your Verizon store will have some. My experience when the 6 came out and I was traveling was that no Verizon store had any stock. I managed to snag one at the Apple store in Charleston, SC on the very last day of the free upgrade offer.

 

 

I DONT THINK THEY ARE BEING OFFERED FOR FREE THIS TIME. Didn't mean to "yell". My all caps button was on by accident. :)