graeme_hutton Posted July 18, 2010 Share #1 Posted July 18, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm thinking about purchasing an ipad - What extras do I need to put images on it from my M8?. I shoot DNG and hi-res jpeg combined. Thanks Graeme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wattsy Posted July 18, 2010 Share #2 Posted July 18, 2010 You need the camera connection kit. Very difficult to get hold of at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arminw Posted July 18, 2010 Share #3 Posted July 18, 2010 Even without the the camera connection kit you can create an album in iPhoto or even Aperture if you own it and sync you images to the iPad I do it this way for all my images and it works rather well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted July 18, 2010 Share #4 Posted July 18, 2010 you can create an album in iPhoto or even Aperture if you own it and sync you images to the iPad You don't even need to do that. You can just drop a folder of images in to the 'Pictures' folder in 'Users/username/' and it should be available to select in iTunes. I assumed Graeme wanted to get his files from the M8 onto an iPad without using a Mac. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_hutton Posted July 18, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted July 18, 2010 Thanks and yes, it's a direct transfer I'm interested in. Regards Graeme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptiste Posted July 26, 2010 Share #6 Posted July 26, 2010 camera connexion kit then... But I must say that I'm pretty disappointed by the size limitation of the images imported (like 1800 x ???). What's the interest of being able to import images if it doesn't support 18 MPix? (Suspected answer: only a bridge to the Internet, where you don’t usually send full blown pics) Meaning that once you have prost-treated the file on iPad, I'll anyway have to do it again on your computer at home.... I had started to play with it, but lately, I haven't passed any more pics on my iPad. Second issue: instability of the data transfer with the camera connexion kit, with a 100% reproducibility with M9 RAW. There seem to be a memory issue beneath, so far as when the app starts crashing, then each time you relaunch it to finalize your transfer, it crashes earlier. Third grief: the workflow is really lacking user friendliness: you have to import the pics under the photo app, then retrieve the pic you want to treat under the post-treatment app (various flavor available, all are not good - and I wonder whether any work on the RAW files...), then usually you can't transmit the pics directly on flickR/picasa... GTG on another app for that. Btw I didn't find any group-treatment, which drives you to 1 by 1 modification, what a burden. I might look around to find new and improved apps. My workflow on Mac is: Lightroom3 for quick post-treatment of the pics + Picasa for web sharing. And this is rather user friendly. And btw I have almost no trust in iPhoto. Once you put your pics in it, you don’t see them back anymore… Fine for rubbish mp3 in iTunes, not for precious photos! On iPad, I miss something convenient… If some1 has an idea, please feel free to suggest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 26, 2010 Share #7 Posted July 26, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) The iPad is OK as a travel photo device but no more than that. It is quite fun to view your images in the evening but it is not really a serious photo manipulator. It does provide an additional back up to your SD card but then I have never lost images from an SD card. It is a very clever device but it does have its limitations. It tries perhaps to do too many things and none of them perfectly. Nevertheless, I am very glad I bought mine. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanyasi Posted July 26, 2010 Share #8 Posted July 26, 2010 I am in Australia with my iPad. As a photo storage and viewing device, it works great with Canon RAW files. I don't transfer everything from a card, just about 60 or so images at a time. It takes about 5 minutes (at most). As for Leica DNG files (with jpeg), a complete disaster. Havent' gotten it to work yet--SanDisk cards. Will contact Apple upon my return. It is great to see photos at night. I know whether I am getting images that I want. It also is fantastic as a way to reduce weight when traveling. I have my plane reading books on the iPad, a travel guide, and manuals for all the equipment. Despite the Leica file transfer problem, I remain a big fan of the iPad. The Leica issue will get worked out and the memory capacity will increase as Flash memory prices fall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 27, 2010 Share #9 Posted July 27, 2010 I am in Australia with my iPad. As a photo storage and viewing device, it works great with Canon RAW files. I don't transfer everything from a card, just about 60 or so images at a time. It takes about 5 minutes (at most). As for Leica DNG files (with jpeg), a complete disaster. Havent' gotten it to work yet--SanDisk cards. Will contact Apple upon my return. As you suspect, there must be a problem with your iPad or camera connection kit, as mine is loading both the DNG and JPEG's just fine from both my M8 (8GB SanDisk Extreme III's) and M9 (16GB SanDisk Ultra II's). It is a bit a pain having to take DNG and JPEG after years of taking just RAW but I had had some practice with my Ricoh GX200, which will not take RAW/DNG on its own. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2mini Posted July 31, 2010 Share #10 Posted July 31, 2010 Get an Eye-Fi card and download the shuttersnitch app for direct transfer to your ipad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 31, 2010 Share #11 Posted July 31, 2010 Get an Eye-Fi card and download the shuttersnitch app for direct transfer to your ipad. I seem to recall that the Eye-Fi card does not work well in the M8/M9 due to all metal construction acting as a Faraday cage. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2mini Posted July 31, 2010 Share #12 Posted July 31, 2010 I seem to recall that the Eye-Fi card does not work well in the M8/M9 due to all metal construction acting as a Faraday cage. Wilson I dunno. I just got an Eye-Fi X2 Pro and it's working. I have the camera set to take raw + jpg basic and it transfers just the jpg which is perfect for viewing purposes. Seems to take about 10 seconds to transfer the image after taking the shot. About the same as transferring a raw image from my Nikon D700 to my aperture on my mac over the tethered usb connection. Haven't experimented with anything else yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 31, 2010 Share #13 Posted July 31, 2010 I dunno. I just got an Eye-Fi X2 Pro and it's working. I have the camera set to take raw + jpg basic and it transfers just the jpg which is perfect for viewing purposes. Seems to take about 10 seconds to transfer the image after taking the shot. About the same as transferring a raw image from my Nikon D700 to my aperture on my mac over the tethered usb connection. Haven't experimented with anything else yet. That is interesting. They must have improved the transmitter in the card. I recall a couple of people trying them when the original Eye-Fi card came out and they had to in effect put the M8 on top of the receiver to get it to work. Mind you the camera kit works very well on my iPad, so I don't really feel the need for it. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2mini Posted July 31, 2010 Share #14 Posted July 31, 2010 Mind you the camera kit works very well on my iPad, so I don't really feel the need for it. Wilson I'm not familiar with the camera kit, but for that you have to remove the card from the camera, right? How are you finding the transfer speed compared to using a card reader on your normal computer? How do you then transfer the images to your computer? I have an epson p5000 for backup in the field, but wondering if the camera connection kit would be another solution or backup to that. In my case, I wanted to try the eye-fi solution because if I'm with a client, it would be nice to show them the images on a large screen as we are shooting, rather than having to show them the tiny screen on the back of the camera, or stop shooting all together to load images in batches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 31, 2010 Share #15 Posted July 31, 2010 I use the iPad generally when I am off classic car rallying and want to carry minimum kit. The cars usually have to be left in a Parc Fermé for the night and I always seem to be put up in the furthest away hotel! The purpose is twofold, looking at photos I have taken during the day, in the evening and to have a back up of my SD card. I have said before, that I have never had an issue with SD cards but others have or the camera has taken it into its head to delete everything (finger trouble issue suspected). The download time is about 30 to 50% slower than a fast card reader. It is handy that the iPad can also do email and act as a reader as well. I have had lots of problems logging onto hotel wifi systems. If the network links on start up, to having to put in a user name and a password, in general, this will not work. If you just have to put in a WPA or WEP password, then it will. I am hoping this will be cured with iOS4, which will permit limited multi-tasking, which I think is the issue. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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