Do any of you use an iPad for photography post/filing when traveling?

I'm going to post this in both the mac talk and here as I'm using a NEX 5N now.




Do any of you use an Apple iPad when on vacation or traveling for any kind of post work, seeing your daily work on a larger screen than the cameras, and sorting in iPhoto.

I'm about fine JPEGs.




I had thought about getting a macbook air 11 inch for travel, but it is $1300 kitted out to my needs and a new iPad is $400.

the difference being the new Zeiss 12mm next year.




Thoughts?

I always pack my iPad when traveling. I use Snapseed to manipulate photos and post some of them while on the road. I keep the originals. Works well for me.

Ill probably get some other photo apps such as Photogene at some point.

DW

That's going to be a problem for several reasons. In order to do that on a trip you'll need access to a laptop with itunes or a hard drive based device which reads images from a card and puts them on your iPad. The other problem is not being able to manage your images in folders or offload without itunes. For this reason I sold my MacBook Air and bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10". With it you can: put an extra microSD card into it, see your files in their folders and copy through a $12 hub to spare SD cards or microSD cards or even an external hard drive. The iPad while ace for info-tainment is a rather poor image manager and manipulator. Android is far superior for this function...and quite a bit cheaper

Below is the 7" Galaxy Tab 2 with a 64 gb microSD card inatalled connected to the hub which has another 32gb SD card in it along with a 2TB WD external hard drive. With Android's file management system visible you can see external drives and copy images either into the tablet or across from one SD card to another (it has a microSD card slot and a standard SD card slot). It also has three USB ports. Can't do this with iOS without jailbreaking it.


Rich

i always only bring ipad with me for travelling. NEX-6/5R can really do the trick for fast preview of the photos in camera which is really covenient. This doesn't matter if u shoot raw or JPEG.

If you want to store the original file instead of reduced sizes in ur ipad, you can use the cemera kit which works fine for either SD card or cemera usb connection. There are also apps to view the raw files.

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Rich Gibson wrote:

That's going to be a problem for several reasons. In order to do that on a trip you'll need access to a laptop with itunes or a hard drive based device which reads images from a card and puts them on your iPad. The other problem is not being able to manage your images in folders or offload without itunes. For this reason I sold my MacBook Air and bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10". With it you can: put an extra microSD card into it, see your files in their folders and copy through a $12 hub to spare SD cards or microSD cards or even an external hard drive. The iPad while ace for info-tainment is a rather poor image manager and manipulator. Android is far superior for this function...and quite a bit cheaper

Below is the 7" Galaxy Tab 2 with a 64 gb microSD card inatalled connected to the hub which has another 32gb SD card in it along with a 2TB WD external hard drive. With Android's file management system visible you can see external drives and copy images either into the tablet or across from one SD card to another (it has a microSD card slot and a standard SD card slot). It also has three USB ports. Can't do this with iOS without jailbreaking it.

Rich

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You don't necessarily need to transfer to a PC/Mac in iTunes. There is an accessory that allows you to connect a SD card or the USB to the iPad and do an import. You can also get the Eye-Fi card to do wireless transfers to the iPad.

Apple Camera Connection Kit


I use the Camera Connection Kit for importing the photos. Love it since I can review them, touch them up and/or post online to FB, my home server and etc.

Rich why did you sell your macbook air? I wasn't clear on that as an air would have itunes and iphoto.




Also Apple sells an ipad photo connection kit for $29 which allows camera to ipad via usb.... and sd card to ipad directly.

BennyKingston, I have a MacBook Pro Laptop and I find myself ALWAYS taking the iPad with me (I have the iPad 3). Not just when I am traveling/vacationing but it is always with me if the camera is with me. It's just so convenient to have compared to a laptop and its ease of use is terrific. I have iPhone and iMovie installed. I also have a Synology home server and they provide iOS apps that allow you to upload your photos directly from your iPad. That gives me another way to keep my photos backed up.

If you are not going to do any heavy photo editing, I would get the iPad along with iPhoto or something similar. I do have a MacBook Pro that has PS installed but rarely use it. Rarely.

I never had any luck mixing Downloads or Posting in my M/C forum I frequent

I bought a Samsung 12 in Ultrabook with full windows and being a SSHD it's pad thin

I travel on my motorcycle with this Sam.

benny what Apps do you use for rendering on your Galaxy 4.0 ?

I have the little Motorola 8 in 4 G and would like to expand it for some Photoplay

it doesnt have the micro SD Slot so I use the Propitiatory Micro to USB adaptor with card

but never spent much time with it to dial it all in.

Off topic sorry.

BennyKingston said:

BennyKingston wrote:

Rich why did you sell your macbook air? I wasn't clear on that as an air would have itunes and iphoto.

Also Apple sells an ipad photo connection kit for $29 which allows camera to ipad via usb.... and sd card to ipad directly.

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Once you put them on your iPad how do you get them off given there are no Macs/laptops available? What do you do when you get past your memory limit? With the Galaxy you just remove one microSD card ($48 for 64 gb) and put in another. Can you actually SEE your raw images with iOS? AFAIK you can't. For those of you who remember Norton Commander, here is the Android version of Window's 'Total Commander" You can see your folders and sub folders and copy images into and out of and across drives and folders. Apple's closed garden will not permit you to do that....users apparently are no longer smart enough to handle files and folders now. When I bought my iPad (yes I still own an iPad I) I searched extensively for an easy way to manage raw and jpg images..there isn't.

I sold the MacBook air because I didn't need one. All I ever used it for was managing files on travel. (I never manipulate them...that's for later at home). By selling it I bought an Alpha mount 16-50 f/2.8 for the NEX. I don't have to carry a (relatively) heavier Mac Air, the power pack and two extra 2.5" external hard drives. I literally carry the Galaxy, the hub and as many SD/microSD cards as I need...that's it! Before I leave I load up the SD cards with movies to play on the Galaxy while enroute.



There's nothing wrong with the iPad; it isn't necessarily BETTER or WORSE than Android tablets, just different. For my needs the combination of the Android Galaxy Tablets, insertable/exchangeable memory, visible hierarchical file structure friendly external mass storage connectivity make it a lighter, extremely cheaper, more capable tool for storing and viewing (RAW and jpg) digital images while on travel.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10" costs $339 at Costco and a 64 gb microSD card less than $50. and the hub less than $15 at Amazon.


Rich

I have a first generation iPad, but snapseed crashes when opening the massive NEX-7 files. So it's useless to me now

I tried it but when you shoot RAW+JPG it just takes too much space on the iPad. Apparently it copes the RAW as well.

But I do copy some pictures onto the iPad when traveling, just to see how it looks and sometimes to email a picture.

I think storing and PP on an iPad is a bad idea. Tools are not accurate enough and I'm not sure how to get the pictures off the iPad. Perhaps with Dropbox or so. But hell, that will be expensive over 3G.

For PP you'll be better of with the Macbook Air. It is also a great backup/preview device of course.

If you only want to preview and email a couple, the iPad is certainly fine.

That's right. No need for ITunes. Just need the SD card adapter. Make sure you get the 64gb iPad or you will not have enough space. Overall, I think that an ultra lite notebook is a better.

For little more than a year I have left behind my MacBook Air and only use my iPaid with my NEX. I travel extensively and have and have recently event built a blog (ScutFish.com) that I manage and publish to via iPad. I also use Snapseed with excellent results and get better using both with each day. I have an iMacs that pick up my photos via Photostream for my later needs at home and work. I love using iPad and find it a great way to enjoy travel, photography, and sharing with my family.

I did have equal success traveling with the MacBook Air but enjoy the slightly smaller package of iPad. The new 7" seems intriguing and perhaps after a bit more time with it I'll travel with it, but for now the standard iPad works best for me. Only downside is how iPad organizes photos. A bloody shame the native photo album app hasn't advanced at all.

I'd be patient for that 12mm Zeiss as more interesting and faster wides are likely coming for much less. I find a lot of really great manual focus lenses that adapt beautifully to the NEX biodies that are far more exciting. But that's my personal enjoyment. Olympus just put out a 17/1.8 and one can only hope a faster wide will come Sonys way in the future.

By far what's most important is what you are most comfortable with and what makes you happy. Get out there and enjoy your adventure.

Thanks for the comments.




I work in professional music and that means Macs everywhere. So I will buy an Apple device which will be compatible to everything in my orbit.

I wouldn't be storing much on and iPad yet the mini is $329 which is literally $1000. cheaper than the 11 inch "Air" I would get just for travel (8gb/128).

At the moment I have no mobile device except non-Apple cellphone.


I appreciate the opinions.

BisonOz said:

jtosbo00 wrote:

BisonOz said:

Rich Gibson wrote:

That's going to be a problem for several reasons. In order to do that on a trip you'll need access to a laptop with itunes or a hard drive based device which reads images from a card and puts them on your iPad. The other problem is not being able to manage your images in folders or offload without itunes. For this reason I sold my MacBook Air and bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10". With it you can: put an extra microSD card into it, see your files in their folders and copy through a $12 hub to spare SD cards or microSD cards or even an external hard drive. The iPad while ace for info-tainment is a rather poor image manager and manipulator. Android is far superior for this function...and quite a bit cheaper

Below is the 7" Galaxy Tab 2 with a 64 gb microSD card inatalled connected to the hub which has another 32gb SD card in it along with a 2TB WD external hard drive. With Android's file management system visible you can see external drives and copy images either into the tablet or across from one SD card to another (it has a microSD card slot and a standard SD card slot). It also has three USB ports. Can't do this with iOS without jailbreaking it.

Rich

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You don't necessarily need to transfer to a PC/Mac in iTunes. There is an accessory that allows you to connect a SD card or the USB to the iPad and do an import. You can also get the Eye-Fi card to do wireless transfers to the iPad.

Apple Camera Connection Kit

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I use the Camera Connection Kit for importing the photos. Love it since I can review them, touch them up and/or post online to FB, my home server and etc.

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Went to the apple store link and the most recent review blasted it.

Most Useful Reviews

• 1.0 out of 5 stars
  A bad joke
  • Written by M A M from London
  • Nov 30, 2010
  The recent upgrade to iOS 4.2 renders the camera connection kit useless. The maximum USB output has been reduced from 100ma to 20ma which isn't enough to drive this device.
  I invested £500 on an iPad specifically to be able to review photos with clients at the end of a shoot. The fact that Apple has suddenly and without any warning stopped supporting the camera connection kit is appalling and leaves me with suddenly needing to find a grand or two for a laptop.
  It's even worse that they are still selling this without informing anyone that it doesn't work anymore.
  This whole fiasco is a joke and the people involved should be ashamed of themselves.

The iPad and a MacBook are two very different critters and so the price difference. I have both but I am just now looking into the iPad as a travel device. I don't have many answers but here are a few things to consider...

If you do go the iPad route strongly consider the 64 GB model.

If you use Lightroom - look into the Photosmith app - it parrots the LR "Library" module and allows you to wirelessly transfer your photos and their organization, ratings, keywords, etc. to you main LR catalog.

The reported "fix" for the Apple Camera Connection kit and iOS 6.01 is to double click the iPad Home button and shut down all apps, switch off the iPad, switch it back on and connect camera or card via the kit. This only needs to be done once. I have not had a chance to confirm this solution as I'm away from home but the Apple support forums have a few threads on this "fix."

Good luck with your decision but remember the iPad and any laptop represent very different capabilities.

lucmac said:

lucmac wrote:

Went to the apple store link and the most recent review blasted it.

Most Useful Reviews

• 1.0 out of 5 stars

Click to expand...

• A bad joke
  • Written by M A M from London
  • Nov 30, 2010
  The recent upgrade to iOS 4.2 renders the camera connection kit useless. The maximum USB output has been reduced from 100ma to 20ma which isn't enough to drive this device.
  I invested £500 on an iPad specifically to be able to review photos with clients at the end of a shoot. The fact that Apple has suddenly and without any warning stopped supporting the camera connection kit is appalling and leaves me with suddenly needing to find a grand or two for a laptop.
  It's even worse that they are still selling this without informing anyone that it doesn't work anymore.
  This whole fiasco is a joke and the people involved should be ashamed of themselves.

Yes, I am well aware of the reviews that some have left but I'm largely not effected by most who have given it a low rating. I use the SD card and I've never had an issue with it. So those that plan to use the USB version, should read up on the issues that have been reported. My understanding is that the USB is designed to only connect to cameras that are set in USB mode when connected.

I did buy the camera connection kit, and used it on one occasion. I do think it's powerful to be able to edit and then upload while remote, and without a "real" computer, but it was weird not knowing what resolution it was; fortunately, it didn't matter to me, as uploading to Facebook, etc., resolution really doesn't matter. But if I were uploading to have them printed, I'd be concerned that the app I was using didn't reduce the resolution. But, yeah, you can upload photos to the iPad and edit them. Personally, I'd only bother with items intended for social media, and wait to do the big work when I got home.

I use my ipad 3 with cheap ebay camera connection kit and photgene/ snapseed quite often. The only strange and annoying problem with snapseed is that it instantly downscales RAW files to some ridiculous resolution which are still fine to print, but lacks quality when cropped! If your working with JPEG's then its fine, snapseed will intuitively transform your pictures far easier than in LR for instance and gives fantastic results. If/ when they ever fix the RAW processing issue i'll probably never use anything else!

As for getting the photo's off the ipad when done i'm affraid it is either an itunes sync or email them to yourself when on wifi! So get the 64Gb and remove after each trip!

I would also had that I have the Kingston Wi-Drive as an alternative should I not have Internet. They have them in 16, 32 and 64 GB versions. Quick way for me to free up space on the iPad especially for movies should I run low during an extended trip.