I'm going on vacation to Singapore, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur next month. My father will soon be buying a Casio QV8000SX just for our vacation. The camera comes with a meagre 8 MB compact flash. Buying any more memory would be a hard decision because it's too expensive (he's buying it from Kuwait where it costs $70 per 8 MB... a rip off!) And no, we will not buy a notebook. Is there ANY way out?

I was wondering if Internet stations (cyber cafes) in these countries permit tourists to upload pictures to their computers and post it to Zing.com or some such site. I can always carry along the hardware I have and use it on their computer. But will they agree to it?

-- Mahesh Shantaram (emmess@earthling.net), May 23, 2000

Answers

I'd suggest having him buy extra memory once he gets to Singapore, which (I think) has fully competitive markets and good pricing.

-- Mark Grebner (Mark@Grebner.com), May 23, 2000.