Thanks everyone for your tips. Its a camcorder that has a sd card for
stills and uses miniDV cartridges. I'll bring plenty plus an extra battery
and the charger! Will I need a special converter adaptor thingy to plug
the charger in on the ship (Princess) I assume I would need one for the
hotels in Italy.
"Steve Myers" wrote in message
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> Digital still camera - The cards are pretty cheap. Just take extras with
> you. On the cruise I took last year I had a 256meg SD card, and stored
> something like 125 pictures on it, with quite a lot left over. This was a
> 5 megapixel camera, so your mileage will vary. The cards are a lot
> cheaper now than last year, too.
>
> Camcorder - Evidently you have some sort of digital camcorder. Is this one
> of the cheap ones that store into internal memory, or possibly a
> "cartridge", and expect you to send the image to a computer? There are
> two major types of "quality" digital camcorders: the ones that record on
> tape cartridges, such as Digital 8 or miniDV, and ones that record to a
> rewritable DVD. Just take extra cartridges or mini DVD/R disks. Don't
> forget the charger, and possibly an extra battery - more batteries are
> expensive. Just last year I was in Vegas, and discovered I didn't have
> any blank tapes with me. The hotel gift shop charged me for one tape
> almost as much as I expect to pay for 3 - and I paid up with a smile.
>
> Madx wrote:
>> Without having to take a laptop computer with you? I have a camcorder I
>> plan to use. Do I just buy a lot of cartridges for it? Normally I would
>> transfer what I take to the hard drive but don't want to lug a laptop
>> with me on a mediterranean cruise.
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