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| | Supplies: Batteries Among all the supplies you should bring make sure that you have two sets of rechargeable AA batteries. By this I mean your photographic camera usually takes 4 AA, your flashlight (yes, get a small handheld one is recommended) takes another 2-3 batteries, your alarm clock, your mouse, and what ever else. Calculate non-rechargeable batteries for those things that are not huge consumers of energy – i.e., cameras.Buy a second set to carry around and buy a light portable recharger. There are a dozen rechargers on the market, sometimes it really takes some studying of the boxes to figure out what is what. The key issue is that the recharger is LIGHT weight and that it does not take a week to recharge batteries (ideal recharge time is under an hour). Furthermore it is essential that for digital still and other cameras you buy rechargeables that have at LEAST a 2400 mhz power capacity. Do not buy batteries for your camera that have less than this. You will regret. You are much better off spending a bit more money to make sure that your rechargeables are 2500 or even better 2600 mhz. I suggest buying one set of four of one brand, Durcell, and then another brand of Energizer, and if you are really into camerawork then get a third set as well of maybe a third high-end prand. Why different brands? First, I dont really know which is superior but buy the high end brands. Second, it will be so much easier to have each SET of four batteries visibly distinguishable from each other so that you dont confuse which batteries have been recharged, which have are half empty, etc. Brand differentiation helps a lot on this point. ________________________________ |
Preparation for Fieldwork & Travel ____________________________________ Please Read Again OSEA IRB Statement Supplies & Research Equipment Warning! If you buy SONY brand cameras, still and video, you will have to buy special sony brand batteries and buy extra sony replacement batteries as well. This is a problem if you have sony and other brands, but if you are 100% Sony lover, then this is ok. ____________________________________
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Memory Chips and Disks, Flash Drives
Make sure that you have all the memory chips and disks for your camerias, digital recorders, video cameras, and anything else. We recommend that you have high storage capacity, of at least 2gigs, for your photos and 4 gigs min. for your digital audio recorder. You will not need to have a back up chip/disk for the audio recorder, but will need at least 2-3 back ups for the cameras; depending on how focused you are on doing visual ethnography, consider three 4 gigs or three 2 gigs. Your video camera would be all the better off with high gig chip/disk of 4, 8 or even 16 gigs.To my knowledge you still need to have a USB adaptor to plug in 4 gig or higher memory chips into a laptop. Make sure you have one of those if you buy high gig chips.
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Given that you will be moving gigs of images from your laptop to the OSEA laptop, you are strongly encouraged to bring a flash drive of at least 2 gigs, but 4 gigs is much better. At the end of the program you will be required to produce copies of all research materials to leave in the OSEA archive. Thus, we will be making DVDs of this material not simply transfering via flashdrives. ____________________________________
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