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Extra Camera Card

Make sure you bring an additional card for your camera.  When you are in the field and your only card fills up, you are stuck.  You should have second one.

Flash or Jump Drive

Having a couple of good size flash drives will make life easy. I’d suggest at least 4-8 gigs, but bigger is better in this case. You will be surprised how quickly you generate lots of files.

External Hard Drive

If the computer you are bringing is pretty much full, then you should bring an external hard drive so you can save and back-up all your image files. And what happens if your internal computer drive fries itself…?  You’ve lost all your work….(ouch!) You should have someway to back-up your files as you make them. You will generate gigabytes of data over the five week course.

Blank CDs or DVDs

Another way of backing up files is to burn them to disk on a regular basis. Its a bit slow, but can be convenient and inexpensive.

Printing Costs

The Certaldo digital lab has an excellent color printer.  The costs of the prints are tracked per student.  The photography class has an existing amount of funding that can cover basic expenses, including some printing, but a student electing to make many prints will probably be charged extra.

Electricity

Be prepared that not only are the power outlets different in Europe, but the power coming out of them is VERY different.  Depending on the electronic gadget (camera chargers, laptops, etc) that needs to be plugged in, there might be different approaches to matching them.  More information will be provided.

Tripod or Monopod (Optional)

A lightweight tripod or monopod could be a good thing to have.  They allow you use slower shutter speeds and do long night exposures.  The downsize of a tripod is that they are big, heavy and hard to travel with internationally .

Flash (Optional)

Few photographers like or use the direct full front facing electronic flashes, but they do come in handy in a dark pinch.  If a student brings a flash that has some creative controls, I would be happy to introduce how to get them to have more pleasing results.  I will have one with me (Nikon) if anyone wants to try it.

Earbuds or Headphones

As we are working in the lab together, its great when we can all agree on the same music, but there are times when you want to focus in without distraction on your work.  Having earbuds or headphones will be helpful.

Monitor Adapter

The lab has a few extra monitors that can be plugged into your laptops giving you more desktop space to work with. This is great news.  We need to check if you need to bring an adapter that goes from your laptop to the second monitor.

Mouse.  Did I say to bring a Mouse?  Bring a mouse!  One that has a tail (cord) is best.

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