how easy is it all over India to find a place that will download photos onto CD ?

philip007

Hi folks,

For all those who have travelled throughout India - just how easy (or difficult) is it to find a place that will down load photos onto a CD ?

Thanks folks.

Philip

srikanth131

now all photo studios would do that.Shouldn't be hard unless you are in a very very small town / village.

freenote

never had a problem ,they appear to be one of those establishments that breed ,they are everywhere .

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thejag

if you are talking about moving photos off of a memory card to a disk an easier option would be to purchase a portable hard drive with an enclosure that backs up data from memory cards automatically. the standard name given to this feature escapes me at the moment but a search should bring it up. someone also started a thread for similar devices.

aahh here it is....

Portable hard drives for photo storage

machadinha

I think lots of cyber cafes (which are fairly universal now) will do this for you as well -- for a fee, of course. Shouldn't break your back though; as with anything in India, it probably pays to shop around some & so compare and get a feel for prices (which may then again differ locally, so you may have to do it in every location where you want to purchase a given thing or service).

Anyway and like the others said: Should be no problem at all. Worst that could happen is going way off the track you might need to wait for your next just slightly bigger town to take care of it. Photography shops, probably a good suggestion as well yes.

(An Indian friend quoted me last spring on what it should cost me, but I really forget, and in the end, I never did. I think maybe Rs. 600 or so for the CD + the service of having those pics copied? I really don't remember, may be spurious. Well, let's say a few hundred Rupees then. Again, just shop around and see what you come up with.)

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Nick-H

A portable HD is a good idea, but is always going to be more fragile than a CD.

Using both is an even better idea!

machadinha

Yup; you could send the CD's home, carry the HD with you.

There will of course always be a limit to how many back-ups and safeguards a person wants to or can reasonably introduce... if it's just storage space that's the issue, I bought me a second memory card there (would hate to have transported my data to disk & start re-using the card, then find out later the process had been faulty anyway). With some stiff haggling, the card cost me about the same as it would have at home I think.

Nick-H

Two is hardly excessive.

On my recent trip to UK we took over a thousand photos. I had one level backup, some CDs, but still couldn't bring myself to delete anything off the three memory cards I filled up, until we got home.

thejag

not really. i have dropped my portable hard drive so many times over the past several years and it still runs (the last time i had it connected to the pc, havent seen it in the last 6 months, damn) as good as when i first bought it four years back.

A decent enclosure will keep your hard disk well protected. just ensure you leave it in your hotel room or anywhere you know it will remain secure and do the transfers when you are safe from the elements.

oh and machadinha for what you think you paid you were really ripped off. writing a disk should not cost any thing more than 30/50 rupees anywhere. the only risk? PCs in most such places will be infected with innumerable viruses/Trojans that will mostly be passed onto your CD copies.

Nick-H

But you could drop a CD from even higher, even more times

The first hard disk I ever bought (what used to be described as "full hight") came in a huge box with fantastic packing. The outer box was printed with the warning that, once unpacked, dropping it more than one inch would probably cause irreparable damage.

But hey, there are probably people here who remember hard disks that had to be installed by cranes.

(Not to mention the inevitable few who considered themselves lucky if they could store their data in a paper bag in the middle of the road )

Haylo

I'm not that old, though I do recall having to "park" hard drives before moving early PCs. Remember when floppy discs really were floppy?

Perhaps those of us who remember how fragile data storage used to be (my first programs were stored on audio cassette tapes ( ), and who have inevitably lost documents to the inescapable failures of early equipment and software are a bit more likely to take measures to back their data up?

Paper bag? Luxury! We allus dreamed o' havin' a paper bag... &c.

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thejag

ive certainly seen the photos of the huge ibm hard drive being transported in a crate and the era of full height drives had passed when i got my hands on my first PC.

I wonder if anyone here remembers JTS corporation? indias first and only Hard disk manufacturer that had to close shop due to labour problems.

Nick-H

Me too, and yes. Not only floppy, but big and floppy! Was it 7 inches? I'm not sure... then five, then the plastic-case ones we sometimes still see today.

abracax

iPod.

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machadinha

Aha, I see, that should be handy for people to know. Like I said, I never did it in the end and so never paid anything; I was just trying to remember what my friend quoted I should pay. It's quite possible he mentioned e.g. 60, not 600 Rupees.

Bottom line again, shop around some and see what you come up with.