I just picked up another LaCie Rugged drive for an upcoming trip to New Zealand so I thought I’d take a second to post about them. The Rugged line of drives from LaCie are designed with the traveling photographer in mind and are encased in a protective rubber shell. I have been using a 120gb Rugged for about 2 years now and it has been faultless so far. If you take a look at the larger version of the photo on the left you will even see a sizable dent in the case on the top but still it keeps on ticking. Inside the casing , the 2.5 inch Samsung drive is “suspended” on rubber mounting points for added vibration and shock resistance.
The 120gb drive I have is only USB 2.O but I have just ordered a 500gb firewire drive. The firewire drives come with both firewire 400 and 800 as well as USB2.0. They can also be daisychained together with other firewire drives. This time I needed to get the added size of 500gb to handle the huge files from the Canon 5dMKII.
It’s important to travel with enough storage to keep a redundant backup of your photos. One copy of the photos I shoot will be kept on the hard drive of my Macbook Pro, the second copy will be on the new 500gb Rugged drive and my old 120gb Rugged has been relegated to storing my movie and music collection on my travels. If you are storing shots in a similar configuration, remember to NOT keep your portable drive in your laptop bag!!! If you laptop bag gets stolen you will lose both copies of your files!! Be sure to keep them in separate locations, with these Rugged drives you could just put it in your pocket.
I tend to keep mine in a small bag inside my camera bag. I found a small bag by Think Tank Photo called the ” All the other stuff” that works just great (see photo) . The rear pocket will fit your rugged drive, the center pocket will hold a second drive, a portable mouse and a card reader while the front pocket can hold all your cables.
Bit of an odds and ends posting this one. I’ve been shooting a few things up on Blackcomb glacier in the last week or so. The progression of skiing over the last year is pretty impressive. It seems everyone has a new variation on a double cork or double flip these days. Paul Bergeron (photo on the left) is looking particularly impressive. I also shot a quick video of Peter Olenicks new double which seems to be a kind of misty 5 to switch backflip. Crazy stuff.
A few nights ago I went up to Camp of Champions for a sunset shoot with the 4frnt crew. CR Johnson, Matt Sterbenz and Finn Anderson were on hand along with local skiers Mack Jones and Carl Fortin. As with this shoot last year , we were blessed with perfect conditions and a beautiful sunset. The photo on the left shows the collection of Elinchom Rangers set up by myself and a couple of other photogs. In the last couple of shoots I have been experimenting with some different pocketwizard setups to try and increase the usable range. What I have learnt is that moving the PW away from the light stand and flash head can make a noticeable difference. A Manfrotto magic arm with camera plate and a cold shoe provide a useful setup because you can easily move it around depending on what angle you are shooting. DO NOT be tempted to angle the aerial towards you though. You must keep the aerial pointing vertically. Any deviation from the vertical seems to cut down the range again. This was the first shoot in a long time that I have not experienced major pocketwizard frustrations and in fact I managed to get the new TT1 transmitter to sync incredibly fast with my ranger.
Carl Fortin, Camp Of Champions, Whistler, BC
Canon 1dMKIIN, 1/320, f5.6, 24-105mm at 50mm, iso 400
Coming up this month there will also be a sunset shoot going down at Momentum ski camp and i’m working on the marketing material for a new spa here in Whistler when i’m not shooting skiing. At the end of the month i’ll be packing up and heading to New Zealand for a team shoot with another ski company. It’s nice to get back to shooting, the last few weeks I have spent many hours in front of my computer screen sorting through the winter shots and getting them sent off to all the ski magazines around the world. A necessary part of the job and certainly not my favorite part.
I just picked up another LaCie Rugged drive for an upcoming trip to New Zealand so I thought I’d take a second to post about them. The Rugged line of drives from LaCie are designed with the traveling photographer in mind and are encased in a protective rubber shell. I have been using a 120gb Rugged for about 2 years now and it has been faultless so far. If you take a look at the larger version of the photo on the left you will even see a sizable dent in the case on the top but still it keeps on ticking. Inside the casing , the 2.5 inch Samsung drive is “suspended” on rubber mounting points for added vibration and shock resistance.
photos I shoot will be kept on the hard drive of my Macbook Pro, the second copy will be on the new 500gb Rugged drive and my old 120gb Rugged has been relegated to storing my movie and music collection on my travels. If you are storing shots in a similar configuration, remember to NOT keep your portable drive in your laptop bag!!! If you laptop bag gets stolen you will lose both copies of your files!! Be sure to keep them in separate locations, with these Rugged drives you could just put it in your pocket.
the ” All the other stuff” that works just great (see photo) . The rear pocket will fit your rugged drive, the center pocket will hold a second drive, a portable mouse and a card reader while the front pocket can hold all your cables.
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