Digital Cameras in India

Travelmore

Question

I am going to India and Nepal. I want to download my pictures at the Internet cafes and possibly burn then on to a CD. My camera uses USB port

also In your experience what kind of OS do they have (mainly) windows 95? mac? ME?

Do they have CD burners?

Anyone done this? any problems? hints? ideas of what to do take?

Thanks

picklepak

Most of the computers you'll find are at least 2 yrs old, many will have USB ports but nobody will know how to use them. Take your USB cable and software on CD... you'll find Win95/98/ME everywhere, no macs at all.

But of course all the above is useless unless you can find some offline storage. It's faaaar too slow to email the pictures to yourself.

Finding a CD burner can be hard. Sometimes you find them in the strangest places! That's India, after all. I found a CD Burner in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan at a place called Electrocom Computer Training and met some new Indian friends along the way. Good luck.

cyberhippie

Well here's my two pennies worth as posted on th TT a few days back. I agree with above post CD burners are few and far between, although a good search through the bigger cities will surely unearth some where you can burn your photos onto CD. Be prepared to manage most of the Techie stuff yourself. There are many cyber cafes with Highly proficiant amateurs who can give you all the help you need however in the main the folks working in the cafes are just there to collect the money!
Two places I know of should you be in the vicinty, are Chris's Cyber cafe or Baba's Cyber cafe both in Palolem. Chris will certainly be able to help you out and he has the editing software!

glozmand

Thanks