digital camera

[LIA]

Can we transfer from digital camera our photos in cd's at Katmandu, Luckla, and Namche. We made Everest trekking at April 2005.
Lia from Greece

[Sharon]

Kathmandu yes, but Lukla and Namche I never saw any camera shops so I would say no. At that point you are on your way back to Kathmandu anyways.

[cmlama]

Hi LIA,

Greeting from Kathmandu,

Of course, you can transfer photo to CD from digital Camera in Kathmandu. Namhe has Internet café but I have never seen transfer picture to CD from digital camera. I think that there may possible.

I have three male from Greece for the Gokyo and Everest base camp trek for 20 days coming end of March and April. They will arrive in Kathmandu March 25 and will fly to Lukla March 27. If you have interest to join with group, I can supply you more details. I am a guide and organizer of their Gokyo and EBC trek. I am more than 24 years trekking guide. My email address is trekinfo@gmail.com or www.trekkingnepal.net to know further more details.

[Boulia]

I have not had digital photos transferred myself in Namche but whilst in a cafe I saw another trekker arrange this with the cafe owner. It was the cafe on the street running 90% left from the main street as you walk through from Lulka - left hand side of this street.

[Lars]

When I last visited Namche, in November 2003, I found an Internet cafe
called Linkingeverest.com, or at least it was in the building with such a
sign, on the second floor.

The young Nepali fellow who worked there was extremely helpful in
transferring my digital pictures to CD. At the time his card reader could
only handle memory cards up to 128 MB so if you have bigger cards
than that I suggest you bring your own reader. He had several
computers of which at least one was a Thinkpad with a PCMCIA slot.

The next time I go there I will bring a PCMCIA-shaped device where
you insert your memory card inside it and then plug the whole card in to
the laptop. I may well bring two and give him one as a present.
He spent so much time and effort into handling my pictures that I
ended up tipping him as much as his modest charge for the whole
thing. I really recommend this fellow!

The cafe is on that part of the main street that leads in a N/S direction
on the left hand side when you walk in to Namche from the south, more
or less opposite the "German Bakery".

[yakshaver]

If the PC in Namche or Lukla has a cd write drive, and you have youd download software cd from your camera with you (I always take this to me when travelling), as well as having spare empty rewritable CDs - well, you should be able to download.

I have an Olympus which has this cd-soft wich, when installed on any computer whith a re-writable cd drive, allows me do download my pics on that computer, which then can be saved on a spare cd. I think hotel Namche in the it's omonim town has a computer with a re writable cd drive...

[Ian]

Memory Cards are very cheap now. It is worthwhile taking a number of say 256Mb cards, these are only Euros 30 each and you should be able to get 100 or 200 shots on each depending upon your camera and JPG resolution you chose. If one card is lost or corrupted then at least you havent lost everything.

If burning onto CDs instead, make sure that whoever does it displays the images from the CD they have just burnt for you. Get them to do it twice, either onto the same CD in a different folder or on two blank ones. I normally get a second CD burnt at a different place before erasing the CF Card, but thats when I am in cities. On treks I take a load of CF cards instead. The CF cards cost nothing now compared with the cost of the trek. I only have CDs burnt as a backup - not to let me reuse a memory card.

[Lars]

If the PC in Namche or Lukla has a cd write drive, and you have youd download software cd from your camera with you (I always take this to me when travelling), as well as having spare empty rewritable CDs - well, you should be able to download.

You don't need any particular software to transfer files from a memory
card reader to a PC. It is a simple matter of copying files from one unit
to another. Any file manager can do that, at least if you use Windows,
98 or later.

I have my doubts about if the image I attached will show up here or not
so I add a link as well; http://w1.844.telia.com/~u84406120/images/cardreader.jpg

There are many ways to have a computer accept external media, the
setup I describe is just one. It is small and lightweight and quite
universal, but it is mostly just laptops that have a PCMCIA slot.

[Unregistered]

Lia

I am planning to complete the EBC trek in April. I did a short trek to Tyangboche in Oct 02. I live in UK and planning to arrive KTD early April. Plesae reply to jijubi99@yahoo.com if you could tag me along.

Kind regards

Suresh