My Dream Backup Scenario
In-the-field backups have become quite the hot topic in the last few years. I know because I've been asking questions about this, too. Do we use a laptop and Lightroom? Do we transfer files from our camera cards onto a portable hard drive? What about flash drives? For years I've used a Nexto backup drive — but are these now obsolete?
All of these questions are necessary because the simplest solution is not: Why can't we just connect a flash drive to our camera via some sort of appropriate cable and have the camera automatically download the files to the flash drive? Wouldn't this seemed to be the easiest possible method? This occurred to me the other day when I purchased 4 new 32GB flash drives for $17 each. Talk about cheap!
Since the camera manufacturers don't seem to be willing to build this into their cameras, could some entrepreneur create a smart cable that would do this automatically? If not, why not? Certainly, if we can put a man on the moon… Or, has someone already done this?