Originally Posted by
jerseyfinn
That's the sort of solution that I'm also looking for. How is the battery life with DLs in the field?
I've also picked up a couple of extra SDs when Best Buy has sales on them. My strategy is similar to yours depending upon length of the trip. If I bring my laptop I dump my daily images onto the laptop and I continue to fill my intact SD stick dumping the new images onto the laptop at days end. Longer trips create a problem as I might cycle through my SD sticks and be forced to reformat one of them to keep shooting.
Now that I've got a new G9 which shoots RAW, I can foresee myself filling those sticks faster, even on a short trip. That Wolverine seems to fit the bill for lightweight, compact, in-the-field use.
That's the downside of the Wolverine - the battery life sucks, to be honest. It's good for maybe 3GB of download on the battery. I normally travel with a LiIon powerpack (~4500 mAh at 5V) that was originally designed to charge iPods, cellphones, etc, but can also charge the Wolverine. It has a mini-USB connector for data, but that will only power the device, not charge the battery.
If I were doing it all over again, I'd get one of the Hyperdrive units, despite the additional cost.