Leica M11 (-D) pictures directly to iPad Lightroom with USB-C cable and without Fotos.

[elmars]

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vor 11 Stunden schrieb marchyman:

Lr on both my phone and iPad recognizes the phone/iPad camera.  What it won't do is recognize my M11.

Just to be clear: Is ptp set in the camera?

vor 11 Stunden schrieb marchyman:

 If I want to get pictures from the camera onto my phone or iPad (something I rarely do) I first have to use FOTOS to get the images from the camera to the device Photos library.

If you want to avoid this, you can use the app's Share function to import directly into Lightroom; the images are then not saved in the Photos app on the iPhone, but only in the cache until they are uploaded to the cloud. I have described this above.

[Smudgerer]

4 hours ago, elmars said:

Just to be clear: Is ptp set in the camera?

If you want to avoid this, you can use the app's Share function to import directly into Lightroom; the images are then not saved in the Photos app on the iPhone, but only in the cache until they are uploaded to the cloud. I have described this above.

I know I should try harder to comprehend the ways of downloading images from the M11-D, ie: directly / wifi etc to an iPad/iPhone or into Lightroom Classic and so on but for me the old way is still the best, camera images go to the SD card, ( DNG only ), pop out the SD card and with a card reader load to wherever I need them to be. Right now that's to Apple Mac's Photo's where I do a first edit trashing everything that doesn't work, the "keepers" go over to Lightroom Classic for post-production then maybe print those worth printing..........Re-format the card with SD CardFormatter and put it back in the camera.

The M11-D's internal memory I am just ignoring right now until I find or understand a better way of using it............Now the camera is basically set-up as I want it I ignore Fotos pretty much completely which is good by me.

[marchyman]

13 hours ago, elmars said:

Just to be clear: Is ptp set in the camera?

If you want to avoid this, you can use the app's Share function to import directly into Lightroom; the images are then not saved in the Photos app on the iPhone, but only in the cache until they are uploaded to the cloud. I have described this above.

Yes, PTP was set in the camera.

I didn't realize I could use the Share button to go directly to Lr, but it makes sense.  Anyway, I just tried it and found it worked great.  Thanks.   Hopefully I'll be able to remember that the next time I'm traveling and feel I must edit a picture I took now! Mostly I wait until I'm home because I much prefer editing on a 27" screen.

[jonoslack]

On 10/25/2024 at 7:36 PM, marchyman said:

Yes, PTP was set in the camera.

I didn't realize I could use the Share button to go directly to Lr, but it makes sense.  Anyway, I just tried it and found it worked great.  Thanks.   Hopefully I'll be able to remember that the next time I'm traveling and feel I must edit a picture I took now! Mostly I wait until I'm home because I much prefer editing on a 27" screen.

Hi There

@elmars has been really helpful explaining all this . It's now my preferred way of importing images to LR Classic.

1. Connect the camera to the ipad Pro (I have 11" M4 version with 512GB)
2. Go through the full screen images marking favourites
3. In select mode filter on the favourites (or select them individually)
4. Choose the Share button and select DNG files
5. Wait whilst Fotos copies the images to the clipboard (remarkably fast)
6. Select Lightroom in the share dialog
7. Open Lightroom mobile and go to Imports
8. Select items and add to the chosen Collection (or make a new one)

When you get home the images will all be in Lightroom Classic on your home computer, together with any edits you made on the iPad/iPhone when on the road.

This way the images do NOT go into your Photos library on the phone / iPad, 

The only limitation is that it can only handle 50 images at a time - but it's not such a hardship as it's all very quick.

The real point though is that selection is MUCH better in Fotos - full sized images you can zoom into to check sharpness/focus etc. If you try and do it with Lightroom on the iPad you cannot see full scale images and you can't zoom in far enough to see what's in focus.

All the best 

Edited October 28, 2024 by jonoslack

[hdmesa]

On 10/28/2024 at 6:52 AM, jonoslack said:

Hi There

@elmars has been really helpful explaining all this . It's now my preferred way of importing images to LR Classic.

1. Connect the camera to the ipad Pro (I have 11" M4 version with 512GB)
2. Go through the full screen images marking favourites
3. In select mode filter on the favourites (or select them individually)
4. Choose the Share button and select DNG files
5. Wait whilst Fotos copies the images to the clipboard (remarkably fast)
6. Select Lightroom in the share dialog
7. Open Lightroom mobile and go to Imports
8. Select items and add to the chosen Collection (or make a new one)

When you get home the images will all be in Lightroom Classic on your home computer, together with any edits you made on the iPad/iPhone when on the road.

This way the images do NOT go into your Photos library on the phone / iPad, 

The only limitation is that it can only handle 50 images at a time - but it's not such a hardship as it's all very quick.

The real point though is that selection is MUCH better in Fotos - full sized images you can zoom into to check sharpness/focus etc. If you try and do it with Lightroom on the iPad you cannot see full scale images and you can't zoom in far enough to see what's in focus.

All the best 

In FOTOS, when you zoom in on your DNGs to check focus, does it consistently load the high resolution image? I shoot DNG + JPEG, and when I zoom in FOTOS, often it won't load the full size image. When that happens, I have to switch to another image and back again to get it to zoom in.

Edited October 30, 2024 by hdmesa

[jonoslack]

5 hours ago, hdmesa said:

In FOTOS, when you zoom in on your DNGs to check focus, does it consistently load the high resolution image? I shoot DNG + JPEG, and when I zoom in FOTOS, often it won't load the full size image. When that happens, I have to switch to another image and back again to get it to zoom in.

It certainly used to do that, but it seems to be better now (so many new versions!). I shoot DNG only and maybe that’s it? Have you reported it in the feedback? (They really do watch it!). 
I’ll give it a look at my end

all the best

Jono