powler Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Bit of a weird one but the wife and I are off on a jolly in September to the Italian Alps on the motorbike. The bike is fitted with a camera and also the wifes helmet, the footage is recorded to SD memory cards. Now as we are on the bike we will have to travel light so I don't want to take a laptop so does anyone know if it is possible to transfer from the SD cards to a small external storage device like a hard drive of similar, I know I would not be able to view the files but could do that once home. The only other option is to buy lots of SD cards or wipe the data, but I didn't want to lose the recordings as some may be worth keeping. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 As, I believe a 128Gb card can hold up to 24hrs of continuous recording, surely a dozen cards would take up less space and cost less than an external recording device Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Download and save to google cloud or even email to yourself (max may only be 4g on 1 email) Are they mini / micro SD cards ? does your phone accept either ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka54 Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) As I see it you have a couple of choices, you cannot directly transfer data from an SD card to a flash drive as without some kind of input device you cannot instruct the SD to transfer data to the flash drive. So, choice 1, assuming both your camera's have charging/data leads that are standard usb one end and micro usb the other. Purchase or borrow a small PDA that has a usb socket of the standard type (you will need this to connect the flash drive ). Create a file folder on the PDA to store your footage, connect a usb type card reader to the PDA and transfer the footage from the SD card to the PDA via the file folder you created. You can then insert your flash drive to the standard usb port on the PDA and then transfer your footage to this. "example of PDA is anything like a small Asus note book or pad " which will easily fit into a back pack or panier. However, option 2, will be a lot easier for you, you don't mention whether you are camping out in a tent or not but in any case I will also assume you will be, in which case, simply find an internet cafe close to one of your stops, have a coffee and a half hours worth of internet access on one of their computers transfer your footage to this computer as in option 1, then download it to your flash drive. If this all sounds a little to involved for you, you can always go into any McDonalds and just about ask any kid with a hand held to do it for you for the price of a burger of course.😁 ( see attached example of usb card reader and PDA ) PS I also believe any photo processing shop will be able to do it for you. Edited June 21, 2022 by Tonka54 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discobob Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) I have the answer @powler Edited June 22, 2022 by discobob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie to this Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, discobob said: I have the answer @powler You certainly do have the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka54 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, discobob said: I have the answer @powler Wow, Good spot, this is a new one on me. Great tool for anybody that needs to transfer data from SD cards regularly. Looks to be a bit pricey though, unless you can use it as an external drive for a laptop/computer as well. Edited June 22, 2022 by Tonka54 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discobob Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 I didn't say it was cheap though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powler Posted June 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 That looks a handy bit of kit but is a bit pricey for the amount of space, looks like I will follow amatuers advice and buys some more cards. Thanks for input gents. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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