Want To Store Pictures On Your iPod While On The Road?

I have a couple of buddies at work that are traveling in the near future. They are both into photography and their compromise to portability is with their camera equipment. Both of them have a back pack full with cameras, lenses, flashes, etc. which can be heavy enough on it’s own; you don’t want to add a laptop to the mixture. Can you imagine carrying this and then throwing a laptop in there just to copy pictures?

What happens when you run out of space on your camera to take pictures because you are a shutter freak? Clickety Clickety Click!

Well for some the solution is simple – If you have enough money, just buy more memory cards. They are really quite inexpensive at the moment and they are very portable. An expensive alternative would be something like the Digital Foci which is a hard drive that allows you to copy straight from your camera without the need for the computer.

But what if you already have space? What if you have one of the iPod classics with a bunch of room on it? Well then you need the iPod Camera Connector. Thanks to these two guys mentioning a need by way of the classic geek dialect “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”, I went looking. This adapter will allow you to connect a 4th or 5th generation iPod classic directly to your camera to offload your pictures.

The iPod Camera Connector provides a fast, easy way to transfer images from your digital camera to your iPod with color display or iPod with video. To use with iPod with color display requires iPod photo software v1.1 or later.

There you are boys! I am not sure that people deep enough into the hobby and even less sure that people who make a living through photography will be into this but it turns out that the everyday user that takes a ton of point and shoot pictures on vacation has a low cost way to store them to a big space.

Happy pictures everyone!