>>You indicate that you have never used a digital mini recorder. I wonder, are they not available?<<

They're certainly available - I've often seen them in electrical shops. I've always assumed, though - perhaps wrongly! - that they were only really of use to people who wanted to do things like dictate letters, and so I've never really looked at them closely.

What other sorts of thing do you use yours for, if you don't mind me asking? Perhaps you can convince me that I need one - I rarely take much convincing where "gadgets" are concerned .

Regards,

Chris

>>Chris--if you record audio clips on your digital camera, doesn't that eat up the memory card pretty fast?<<

No, the sound files are very small compared with the pictures. I always take pictures at the maximum resolution of my camera - the picture is perhaps 3-4MB in size, and the accompanying sound file perhaps 50k. Using the sound annotation feature probably reduces by one the total number of pictures I can store on a 512MB memory card.

As discussed previously on this thread, I've got an XS-Drive picture storage device. When I'm on a tour, at the end of each day I copy that day's pictures to the XS-Drive, so I'm starting each day with an empty memory card. Storage space is, therefore, a total "non-issue".

Regards,

Chris

My camera, and most other digitals, give you the option of numbering the files on your cards separately on each card or consecutively until you change it.

With each change of memory card, the x-drive increments the directory number (the directory name is a number). So, on the trip to Italy, the directory was 001 ond the file was 001. By the finish, it was directory 025 and file 835.

Glenn