Leica MD DNG viewing on iPAD iOS

[harleybob]

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Is there a way to copy or view Leica DNG on an iPad Pro using the SD card connection through the lighting plug?

This camera shoots DNG only, no JPEG. I don't want to do work on images...just preview what is on card.

Thank you.

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[ramarren]

Yes and no. I just did this:

• Insert SD card into Lightning to SD Card Adapter
• Plug into iPad Pro 9.7
• Photos launches and the Import window is selected. (I'm using a 128G card and have 1800+ image files from my M-D on it, so rather than wait for the iPad to pull down ALL the thumbnails, I scroll to the day at the bottom of the list. Photos will pull the thumbnails for what's in view first in a few minutes.)

And that's it. You get to view the small thumbnails only direct from the card. When you select and import a couple of exposures, the rendering that's displayed remains the small thumbnail until the image is rendered. If that's good enough for you to see what's on the card, you're done.

If you want to preview focus and other details, the raw file must be rendered: Once the exposures are imported into Photos, select an exposure and tap the Edit button invokes the raw converter and you get to see the photo at full resolution. Make any change at all, click done, and a full resolution rendering is produced and available for magnification, etc. Or you can use a third party app (I use SnapSeed and Affinity Photo) to view the image files from the Photos library; SnapSeed and Affinity have additional editing features. 

When you're done viewing/checking your exposures, if you don't want to save the rendered and raw files now on your iPad, just select them and delete them. 

 

[harleybob]

15 minutes ago, ramarren said:

Yes and no. I just did this:

• Insert SD card into Lightning to SD Card Adapter
• Plug into iPad Pro 9.7
• Photos launches and the Import window is selected. (I'm using a 128G card and have 1800+ image files from my M-D on it, so rather than wait for the iPad to pull down ALL the thumbnails, I scroll to the day at the bottom of the list. Photos will pull the thumbnails for what's in view first in a few minutes.)

And that's it. You get to view the small thumbnails only direct from the card. When you select and import a couple of exposures, the rendering that's displayed remains the small thumbnail until the image is rendered. If that's good enough for you to see what's on the card, you're done.

If you want to preview focus and other details, the raw file must be rendered: Once the exposures are imported into Photos, select an exposure and tap the Edit button invokes the raw converter and you get to see the photo at full resolution. Make any change at all, click done, and a full resolution rendering is produced and available for magnification, etc. Or you can use a third party app (I use SnapSeed and Affinity Photo) to view the image files from the Photos library; SnapSeed and Affinity have additional editing features. 

When you're done viewing/checking your exposures, if you don't want to save the rendered and raw files now on your iPad, just select them and delete them. 

 

Thank you...I will try that. 

[Exodies]

6 hours ago, ramarren said:

the Edit button invokes the raw converter

Thanks!

[convexferret]

I’m currently going through the process of deciding if I can live with an iPad as my only personal computer and have been investigating  the RAW processing options. There are a few but i’ve Basically come down to two. The RAW functionality in the Apple photos app is not advanced anough for my needs and there are a couple of other apps like Affinity Photo that do a great job but require exporting the RAW and resulting files outside of the Photos library and then copying them back again. Too much hassle. The two options I’m playing with are

 

1. Adobe Lightroom CC for iPad.

Once you have your images in the iPad you import them into Lightroom CC and you have full access to the Adobe RAW converter plus the usual image management tools that Lightroom gives you. All changes that you make are non-destructive and sync via the cloud with Lightroom on your Mac or PC. This is by far the most convenient option available and if you already use Lightroom then you probably have use of this app already.

 

2. RAW Power

This is a reasonably new app written by an ex-Apple engineer. It is only a RAW developer and for the moment only has the basic features. It acts like the missing part of the Photos app and gives you access to all of the RAW development tools that Apple Photos doesn’t give you. But, conveniently, it does so inside of your Photos library and any changes you make are non-destructive and appear instantly in Apple Photos. There’s also a Mac version that works in the same way. So if you are happy to keep your images in your Apple library then this gives you the editing power you need. At the moment I’ve almost-but-not-quite started using this as Apple photos doesn’t yet have things like keywords on their iPad that I rely on for organisation. Once that comes then here is an Adobe-free solution.

[Exodies]

Don’t forget a full photoshop is coming to iPad next year.

[harleybob]

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Thank you for all these updates on whats coming up for the iPad. I have an MD (no screen) so I mostly want to use my iPad for previewing

photos when traveling without my full laptop. Still glad I got the MD.What I would really like is an M10 MD Monochrome!