Hi all,<br><br>Agree with Ric (Hi Ric!), netbook with solar charger <a href="http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/">http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/</a> <br><br>I'm leaving next month for a between 6 and 9-month fieldwork trip to a remote atoll with no access to electricity whatsoever. Even this situation is not a no-laptop fieldwork situation. I'm using the lenovo x201s which is a fully-powered laptop with a 12-hour battery. My electronics are all charged by a car battery that is kept topped up by solar panels. There are also cheaper laptops by ASUS that have 11-hour batteries.<br>
<br>That might sound like a cumbersome set-up, but I'm telling you it works and I'm not one of the first ones to do it by a longshot:)<br><br>Flash cards are pretty resilient (DOA or last forever so make sure to test beforehand), but if you are really worried about it failing, you could record to magnetic tape (i.e. cassette tape).<br>
<br>Good luck,<br>John Olstad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Xavier Barker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meibitobure.gaunibwe@gmail.com">meibitobure.gaunibwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Andrea,</div><div><br></div><div>There are indeed SD card duplicators. Depending on your volume, you might want to look at <a href="http://www.vconsole.com/client/" target="_blank">http://www.vconsole.com/client/</a>. If you're only doing 1-to-1 duplication, you might be best off finding a USB bridge which will let you back up SD cards (and other flash memory types) straight onto a USB device. The USB device might be a series of flash devices or it might be a solid-state HDD in a ruggedised external enclosure. THe difference is that the duplicator is at about $7000, the USB bridge is about $30. There was, about 5 years ago, a portable SD cloning device from Panasonic but I'm not sure it made it to market. You can then get small Pelican cases to weatherproof and shockproof everything.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Xavier</div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="im"><div>On 12/10/2010, at 8:28 AM, Andrea L. Berez wrote:</div><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<br>Hello list,<br><br>I am investigating options for transferring data from one SD card to another without the use of a computer intermediary (think no-laptop fieldwork). There must be some small device that can both read from and write to SD cards. Any recommendations, or barring such a device, and suggestions for work-arounds?<br>
<br>Best to all,<br>Andrea<br>-----------------------------<br>Andrea Berez<br>PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics<br>University of California, Santa Barbara<br><a href="http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/%7Eaberez/" target="_blank">http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/</a><br>
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