iPad – a worthy photographer’s tool?
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Ive long since gotten sick of windows. Hemmed and hawwed over going mac for a long time. Don’t know why I waited so long.
This is true to many people using Windows. They just don’t know what there are missing, yet they still hang on to Windows with judgments based on ‘hear say’ which are crap.
High price (which is VERY relative) is probably the single most used argument yet they have no problem fetching out a $600 rod or reel?… ::)
Just got my kit yesterday; I plugged in the white dongle, plugged my CompactFlash card reader into it, and plugged a card with a set of raw images in it – worked like a champ; they came up immediately, and I can choose which to d/l, and after d/l’ing ’em decide if I want to delete them or not.
Slick.
Just a quick follow up, so you all know how that’s working.
Have found more *very* worthy additions to the stable of apps – Teamviewer being the best. It allows you to, with ZERO hassle, connect to your desktop machine from the iPad. Killer to access images that you might need to send someone (as was the case recently) when you’re on the road.
It’s not iPad specific btw – you can run it from notebooks too. I’ve had a FIERCE need for this in the past…the husband trying to explain to the wife the process of finding and exporting a image with the right settings from LR and then emailing it as an attachment is something no marriage should have to endure.
I just installed the SmugMug photo App on mine. While I only use it for my own personal files and am strictly a hobbyist, I can imagine that this would be an excellent way for a pro to show his or her portfolio to a client. At least from my limited perspective, it is the best method I have ever encountered for viewing a set of photos; much better than any of the web sites I have seen. Flicking through images with my finger tip is a better experience than “clicking” them, and perhaps a better experience than paging through printed images. From a client perspective, the tool is a 10 (or maybe an 11).
On the downside, the Smugmug app still seems to be “buggy” (if that is a word). Once I started using it, I decided to make some additional galleries from photos that had been stored in a generic “other” file. While it worked fine in my main smugmug account, I had to re-load the app to get my changes recognized.
Non-photo related, but relevant to media — the Wall Street Journal charges MORE for a subscription through the IPad App than they do for any other format.
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