Re: Field photography uploading
- From: "Pat" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jun 2006 16:05:18 -0700
Don't know for sure, but I think some of the cameras take a SD card.
Some cell phones also take that card. Seems like the easiest "low
tech" solution would be to take your card out of your camera, put it
into the cell phone, text message it to your email, and wait for the
cell phone bill. Carry 2 cards and you could keep shooting and
shooting.
There are ways to make cameras use wi-fi, only over to your own
computer, as far as I know. You can't just find a hot-spot and shoot
from your camera to your desk back in Toledo. So you need a laptop,
etc., and you end up carrying more equipment and you have a longer
downtime while you are playing with the equipment.
CNN uses those satelite phones and the res is almost okay for TV, but
wouldn't be printable. That would give a "live feed".
If you KNEW you would have a hot spot, you could put your laptop in a
backpack and run a USB cable from your camera to your laptop. If you
had a really good programmer, you could probably develop something to
then go from the harddrive to the wi-fi as the pix were taken, but that
programming is well beyond me. It would sort of the be Bionic Man of
photography.
Two cell phones (to increase transmission time) and 3 or 4 cards seem
like a more practical solution for most cases.
chadedge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm working on a plan to allow field [assignment] photographers the
ability to upload their digital shots on-site. Years ago (2000
elections) I noticed a photographer in Ft Myers was using some kind of
hip-pack w/ a connection to a local news van (the paper had a
partnership w/ a local broadcaster). I can only assume the piggyback
connection went from the hip-pack to the truck then either microwave or
Sat to the station, where it was then sent via Internet to the paper.
We're reasearching options such as giving Treo's to photographers (w/
an SD slot) so they can cellular push their photos up. However, I'm
worried about the Treo's interface, strength of signal, and time needed
to load SD cards.
There's got to be some device(s) out there that can connect to the
camera directly to broadcast a signal without using Wi-Fi (wi-fi is how
most shots are uploaded now; however, in the case of the recent
immigration rallies, there was a problem just in getting to a wi-fi
spot to broadcast from, not to mention the time and effort of loading
up a laptop, loading an SD card, firing up software, signing-in, etc.
etc.).
Anyone have experience with this issue? I'm posting as well to
alt.journalism.
Chad Edge
Seattle, WA
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