iPad camera Connection Kit

[georgio]

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This is the one gadget I was waiting for.

Ideal for on the road or at location.

Simply stick the SD card, or USB camera cable in the Connection Kit and all JPG and RAW pictures are being imported.

When shooting in JPG/RAW mode, the iPad imports both files, but when viewing

it only displays the JPG.

I find that ideal, since one does not have to see all pictures twice.

As soon as the iPad is connected to the computer,

both type of files are being transferred to the computer,

and both show up in iPhoto f.i..

 

When transferring from the camera card to the iPad there is an option to delete

or keep the important pics at card.

Great machine for photography the iPad.

GEO

[stuny]

Geo -

 

That looks very tempting. Please advise:

How quickly does it download form the card to the iPad?

How easy is it to delete images form the iPad, individually and as a group?

How easy is it to download images form the iPad to a regular computer?

 

Thanks

[Guido]

Where'd you get that Luigi case from?

[Guest WPalank]

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/digital-forum/120482-ipad-supports-raw-files-merged-11.html

[stuny]

Geo -

 

William was kind enough to show us the link, however, that still doesn't answer any of the questions I posed. Please advise. My questions were:

 

How quickly does it download form the card to the iPad?

How easy is it to delete images form the iPad, individually and as a group?

How easy is it to download images form the iPad to a regular computer?

[georgio]

Hi Stuart,

 

I did not understand why that link was posted either; different subject.

 

Since you asked, I just did a test and shot with the X1, 20 images in RAW and largest JPG.

When the kit with the SD card is injected in the iPad, all 20 images show up in a few seconds,

when download is clicked it took less than a minute to download the 20 RAW and JPG files.

 

Deleting images is; selecting the ones you would like to delete, by touching them and when you hit

the delete icon, it deletes the selected images.

 

When the iPad was connected to the MacBook it took 75 seconds to download these 40 images

to the computer in iTunes.

For me this is very fast and it's great to have such a large and clear screen to view the images,

way more convenient than an image tank.

 

How the iPad connects to a PC I do not know, since I never had a Windows machine,

but I cannot imagine that it will be any harder.

 

@Nightfire

 

The case matches well the camera cases by Luigi,

but it's not made by Luigi but by Pielframa dot com in Spain and can be ordered on line.

When it's closed it looks like an agenda and it gives good protection.

 

GEO

[stuny]

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Geo -

 

Thank you. All I need to do now is determine how easy it is to download to a Windows PC. Barbara bought an iPad about two weeks ago and already loves it. It will become part of our travel luggage (we do carry-on only), and it will be nice to check photos every day, tossing rejects before getting home. The iPad will also let Barbara write our site's trip notes as we go along rather than finding time to do so when we return home.

[digger1914]

I can hardly wait. I have had my iPad for over a month, but am still waiting for stock of the camera connection kit to arrive. No stores here (Sydney) have them, and my order has been on teh Apple store for a month, with no luck yet. I don't see why these are so hard to make!

 

The reason I got the 64G version was so that I can use it on trips as a back up for my shots.

[Tom_W]

What the ipad really needs is an adhoc wifi capability (Apple please allow this with OS4) then with a eyefi card you could just shoot to the iPad

[ehecatl]

After a few months of searching, I finally found a place with this in stock: the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Ca. They had quite a few available. The kit works quite well and I'm happy now to be able to travel with one less electronic item; a laptop. As to speed, I didn't time the transfer but I found it quite fast to download pics from three cards and then my iPhone.

Saludos,

Santiago

[krandall]

Geo -

 

Thank you. All I need to do now is determine how easy it is to download to a Windows PC. Barbara bought an iPad about two weeks ago and already loves it. It will become part of our travel luggage (we do carry-on only), and it will be nice to check photos every day, tossing rejects before getting home. The iPad will also let Barbara write our site's trip notes as we go along rather than finding time to do so when we return home.

 

Using Bridge (part of PSCS - I have CS5) on a PC, download is dead easy. Just handle it as you would a DL from any camera or media card. The only thing that's a little weird is that if you just try to BROWSE the photos on the Ipad via Bridge, it shows that there is an image file there, but you can't read it. Once you've DL'd the photos, they are completely usable, as normal. This includes both RAW & JPG files off both my Leica and my Canon 50D.

 

Using bridge, you also have the option of deleting the files off the Ipad enmasse once they are DL'd. Since I also keep all the images on my cards until after they are on my computer and backed up on my external HD's, I wasn't concerned about having the computer delete the photos from the Ipad in this manner. If I didn't have another copy on the original cards, I would have DL'd them twice, one onto one of my external drives, before asking the computer to wipe them from the Ipad.

 

Using the USB cord that comes with the Ipad, it took less than 5 minutes (didn't time it exactly) to DL 250-odd files, both RAW and jpg, from both cameras. The delete (which Bridge prompts you for again at the end to make sure you really meant it<g>) took less than 30 seconds. As far as getting the photos from the cards to the Ipad is concerned, that is VERY fast!!! (faster than any other portable storage device I've used) I haven't tried it with Lightroom, as I hardly ever use that program, but I suspect it would work similarly.

 

If you want to be able to do a little photo editing in the field, some people have mentioned the Photogene app, and that's OK, but I like Filterstorm better. I find it more flexible, and you can be a bit more subtle with it. Both of these are completely non-destructive to your original file. They just save another (edited) copy which you can choose to keep or delete later as you see fit.

 

I took the Ipad with me on a trip to the west coast a few weeks ago, and was thrilled with its performance. It's so much more than "just" a storage device, and at the same time so much lighter and smaller than even a netbook. (not to mention W-A-Y faster!!!) I have the google earth app installed to help with arial views of areas I want to locate, and the GPS app so that I don't have to tote an extra GPS unit along too. The ability to get online to mapquest (or google maps) while on the move helped us more than once when we needed to detour around heavy traffic outside of L.A.

 

Karen

[Guest WPalank]

After a few months of searching, I finally found a place with this in stock: the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Ca. They had quite a few available. The kit works quite well and I'm happy now to be able to travel with one less electronic item; a laptop. As to speed, I didn't time the transfer but I found it quite fast to download pics from three cards and then my iPhone.

Saludos,

Santiago

 

Unfortunately, there is no way to backup images from the iPad at this point in time unless you have your laptop or another device. I like to have my images downloaded on two separate devices minimum. At times when crossing borders that might be a bit dodgy, I'll even download important images to my website via ftp if I can find a wireless connection.

 

So for this cat, it will be my MBP, La Cie Rugged 500 GB drive and my iPad for now.

[Guest jarski]

saw iPad in action when my colleague demonstrated it, very neat little thing, and idea for photo hobby!

 

question: does that same adapter work with iPhones or iPods ?

[Bo_Lorentzen]

William,

 

Agree 100% on the two device scheme. Guess the alternative is traveling with a iPad and a epson device (or similar) that would give you the two separate devices for storage. though i do like having lightroom/photoshop on the macbook.

 

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[Guest WPalank]

question: does that same adapter work with iPhones or iPods ?

 

Not at this time.

[Guest WPalank]

William,

 

i do like having lightroom/photoshop on the macbook.

 

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Bo,

I even travel with a small Wacom pen tablet. I just can't work without it.

[wparsonsgisnet]

Bo,

I even travel with a small Wacom pen tablet. I just can't work without it.

 

Will, what model is the Wacom? I'm thinking about using these things based on Sean Reid's "Soup to Nuts" article.

 

Glad to hear it required for you.

 

Regards, nother Will

[Guest WPalank]

Will, what model is the Wacom? I'm thinking about using these things based on Sean Reid's "Soup to Nuts" article.

 

Glad to hear it required for you.

 

Regards, nother Will

 

Bill,

 

I have the older version of this model and it plays nicely with my 15" MBP:

Wacom Technology - Intuos4 Small

 

Wacom has a new line called "Bamboo" that is less than half the price of the above (obviously doesn't have all the bells and whistles) :

Bamboo Pen & Touch

 

I have never used the Bamboo so I cannot rate it.

 

Regarding a pen tablet, it takes maybe 1/2 day of working on images to become adept if you have never used it before. I suggest people duplicate a folder of images, that you fully intend to throw out at the end of your first session and lock away your mouse somewhere, no crutches.

 

Once you've gone through the trial of fire, you really can't operate any other way again.

 

Also, if you do get one, let me know and I'll tell you how to find the menu in CS5 or 4 to activate opacity with pen pressure. One of my favorite tools of the whole system.

[Nicoleica]

Wacom has a new line called "Bamboo" that is less than half the price of the above (obviously doesn't have all the bells and whistles) :

Bamboo Pen & Touch

 

I have never used the Bamboo so I cannot rate it.

 

 

 

I have a Bamboo tablet, and it works very nicely with all of my Macs. It's nice and compact, and comes with a handy travel case.

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[krandall]

I have a large size Intuos tablet that remains on my desk, and a smaller Bamboo that travels with me. The Bamboo is at least as good as the older Intuos tablets were.(the older GRaphire tablets were a little cheesy) Someone who hasn't used both the newer Intuos and the Bamboo side-by side will be very happy with the Bamboo.