MaidinBham
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances SJPP to Muxia, April (2014)
Camino Portuguese Lisbon>Santiago, April/May (2016)
Busy making packing list for upcoming CP, contemplating which electronics to bring and how many cables and adapters I will need. and came across info regarding USB OTG. Honestly I think this is the best thing since sliced bread, and it solved problem of a compact camera without WIFI. I will buy a thumb-drive sized card reader/writer, insert camera's SD card, attach USB OTG to card reader and other end to usb port of smartphone, and presto - camera files and smartphone in communication with each other.
Here is article that explains setup:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/transfer-camera-photos-to-android-phone,news-21222.html
Part of the beauty of it, is you can plug any USB device and connect with camera. So you could store external files on a flash drive (my smartphone is only 8GB) for use with phone. You could watch reruns of the Walking Dead for those moments on the trail when you think you saw a herd of Zombies, and you need to know what to do! You can even store movies files on a SD card (weighs nothing and size of postage stamp) as well other files and of course all the wonderful pic's I will take. Why I bet they even have a USB coffee maker!
Buen Camino.
Janice
Here is article that explains setup:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/transfer-camera-photos-to-android-phone,news-21222.html
Part of the beauty of it, is you can plug any USB device and connect with camera. So you could store external files on a flash drive (my smartphone is only 8GB) for use with phone. You could watch reruns of the Walking Dead for those moments on the trail when you think you saw a herd of Zombies, and you need to know what to do! You can even store movies files on a SD card (weighs nothing and size of postage stamp) as well other files and of course all the wonderful pic's I will take. Why I bet they even have a USB coffee maker!
Buen Camino.
Janice