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in looking at the iPad section of the Ipad specs I came across this under accessories:

iPad Camera Connection Kit

The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. The Camera Connector lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera’s SD card.

 

coupled witha 64BG flash drive [possibly more if you add a portable disk drive to using the USB cable. will the Ipad recognize an external disc? or thumbdrive?] it should be useful. iPhoto will be there will adobe make some useful software available?

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I think the device will be great for making selects and edits, emailing low-res's, and viewing the images online.

 

Perhaps C1/LR will offer an app to preview images in a photoshoot.

 

It would be nice also to see a markup editor as well for use in photoshoots.

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Design and hype apart, I think this kind of devices are more adapted for photography than the iPad.

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Depends. There doesn't seem to be much support for the Mac there, and as a Mac user, I find that pretty much trumps any advantage this particular device might have over the iPad (not that I am in the market for either).

 

Ultimately, it's the applications that will determine whether one device is better than another for photography, and we just don't know yet what's going to be available. However, it stands to reason that viewing and directly editing photos (especially with Aperture 3's new library sharing feature) on the iPad and syncing them back to your main Aperture library would eventually be a possibility which could be useful to some.

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I think the device will be great for making selects and edits, emailing low-res's, and viewing the images online.

 

Perhaps C1/LR will offer an app to preview images in a photoshoot.

 

It would be nice also to see a markup editor as well for use in photoshoots.

 

I'm looking for external storage as a mens of backing up SD cards

 

I usually travel with an iPhone, Kindle, and MacBookAir.

 

I'm hoping I can leave the Kindle and MacBookAir at home and go with the iPhone and iPad

 

a saving of about 3 pounds

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With the SDK provided by Apple and the development being undertaken by many companies, in few months we will see many uses for photography with the iPad. But with the model presented does not have the power of a laptop.

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If you search the iPhone apps store using "RAW" you get virtually nothing.

 

I have read commentary that the iPhone will accept transfers of RAW files, but will not display them. That comes down to software. With the iPad's big screen, maybe someone now will have the incentive to write software for display of RAW files. One thing is clear when you read the experience of people who have figured out how to transfer RAW files to their iPhone for storage, the process is slow (one person estimated 15 seconds per photo) and eats battery life.

 

We won't know for sometime whether the iPad will be a photographer's tool. I suspect that use of the device for photography will probably be clearer and more feasible when Apple release iPad 2.0, with a lot more memory capacity. Nevertheless, if I were Epson I would be nervous. There storage/viewer devices are too expensive for what you get and the interface is terrible.

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If you search the iPhone apps store using "RAW" you get virtually nothing.

 

The iPhone/iPad SDK currently supports TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, DIB, ICO, CUR, and XBM image file formats. Whereas Mac OS X supports many raw formants including DNG.

 

I think the main reason the iPhone has not received the RAW image support is because the processing capabilities were not there. The iPad appears to have a beefier CPU and thus may be able to handle it. But for now any RAW images stored on the iPad would not be displayable.

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Nevertheless, if I were Epson I would be nervous. There storage/viewer devices are too expensive for what you get and the interface is terrible.

 

I'm surprised that the Epson type devices are still available. With the price of cards and/or laptops/netbooks nowadays they strike me as no longer being particularly relevant for travel storage needs. I'm not sure the iPad looks any more useful in this regard and has 'gadget looking for a use' written all over it. That said, one use I can think of is as a small device for casually showing a portfolio to somebody - the iphone is far too small for this (though I have sometimes shown images this way) and laptops can be a pain (need to be sitting down at a table or desk).

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...The iPad appears to have a beefier CPU and thus may be able to handle it. But for now any RAW images stored on the iPad would not be displayable.

 

In addition to the 1GHz Apple A4 processor, Apple have confirmed it incorporates the PowerVR SGX GPU in the iPad (unclear if its imbedded into the A4 or separate - Apple's a licensee and Investor in Imagination Tech who make the PowerVR). App developers should be able to do some very fancy stuff with that.

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Design and hype apart, I think this kind of devices are more adapted for photography than the iPad.

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Win:eek:looze:D?

You must be joking… I got rid of lousy buggy Office since some time now,

not to allow M$oft in my system again…

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Win:eek:looze:D?

You must be joking… I got rid of lousy buggy Office since some time now,

not to allow M$oft in my system again…

 

Johan--tell us how you really feel about M$ :D At least on Windows C1 would work again, and you can still run Open Office :eek:

 

As for the iPad, it will be great for a portfolio viewer and perhaps temporary duplicate storage if I was travelling (though 64GB aint all that much, really, in terms of total storage).

 

I don't do any serious photographic work on a laptop anyway, so I can't see how this lower-powered, low-storage device would be any better.

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Johan--tell us how you really feel about M$. At least on Windows C1 would work again, and you can still run Open Office

 

Jamie, I did looze too much time with M$ and gained so much of it with AAPL to even express it. :D

Regarding Open Office, not so fast, my friend. We, french writers, need what we call "non-secable characters". For instance : this or ; that, instead of; or:.

For mysterious reasons, no developer implemented these in M$W:mad:rd alternates, note even the sleek and efficient Pages by Apple (and creating a script won't do either, I tried). So, not feeling the urge to type manually 2 billions : and ; in my manuscripts, I still have to "rely" on M$W:eek:rd (even after ditching calamitous fat man Entourage).

 

As for the iPad, it will be great for a portfolio viewer and perhaps temporary duplicate storage if I was travelling Right

(though 64GB aint all that much, really, in terms of total storage). Right

Reason why I'll pass and wait (as always with Apple) for a second run, next Xmas, with 200 Gb capacity. :rolleyes:

That said, you can have an iPad and possibly plug a pocket external drive of 500 Gb.

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That said, you can have an iPad and possibly plug a pocket external drive of 500 Gb.

 

And that's what I don't know yet, Johan--I've read that the iPad will be unable to import or export documents directly to storage, which makes it kinda useless to me too. I don't always have a network handy.

 

I also suspect that the USB interface might be hardware proprietary and who knows what that will mean...(thumb drives yes; SATA drives no? What format?)

 

Anyway, it will be cool when we get some more answers. I'd love to plunk down one of those things in front of a couple and show them a portfolio--or deliver a set of key images from a wedding on an iPad along with an album :)

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Be careful:

 

At expected release date next month it will be Wi-Fi only! A month later in April, Apple is expected to release the Wi-Fi + 3G.

 

Difference is Wi-Fi only can only be used in your house (if you have a wireless connection) or at a HotSpot (Starbucks, Hotel, etc.)

With 3G, you can use many of the wireless functions just about anywhere you can pickup a cellular connection.

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Never use 3G abroad : with cell phone contracts, the best way to get ransacked by providers.

 

check out iPass. you get access to most wi-fi hotspots around the world for a reasonable monthly price. It has a very confusing web site

 

I just added Skype to help cut the cost of international calls [i talk too much]

 

I usually take out an expanded data plan to help cut the cost of 3G

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Never use 3G abroad : with cell phone contracts, the best way to get ransacked by providers.

 

At least in the iPhone anyway, 3G can be turned off.

 

Personally, I'd rather have something available when I so desire, than not have it at all.

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