Tips and Tricks
Prevent loss of precious digital photos:
Loss of precious digital photos can be prevented by purchasing an inexpensive chip reader (~ $20 these days) and downloading your photos to your laptop (or other backup device).
Moisture (condensation) and fungi in cameras:
If you’re going from an air conditioned or cool room out into a warm humid atmosphere, place your camera into an airtight bag before going out into the warmer atmosphere, it can be removed in approx 15 minutes. The point to remember is that fungi thrives on moisture. Moisture (condensation) is caused when the dew point of any object is lower than the dew point of the surrounding atmosphere. The dew point will always be lower if the temperature of an object is lower than the the surrounding temperature. A high ambient temperature is capable of holding far more moisture (i.e. it is more humid) than a low temperature so when it comes into contact with an object at a lower temperature nature automatically tries to deposit some of its moisuture on to it; this is condensation.
Transfer pictures from one computer to another quickly:
Your best–and fastest–option, if it’s available, is an Ethernet-to-Ethernet direct connection with a crossover cable, using software designed to migrate your files from one PC to another. I can personally vouch for “Alohabob’s PC Relocator” for this type of task, and it’s the only one I could find (do a quick search) that supports a direct IP connection.
