Hi Mark: I’d like to support Stan’s iPad tablet suggestion. I have the iPad Air (1st gen) and it’s the only thing I try to travel with—though sometimes work conferences require me to bring a laptop. Lugging a laptop has become one of my least favorite things even though I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro w/Retina that I crazy love!
But for good old fashioned personal travel on the road and in the air, I’ve made a rule: no laptop—just iPad! Firstly, I don’t want to process on the road: I just want to see, snap pictures, have fun! I’ve had to temper my photog immediate gratification urges, and so far it’s worked out just fine—kind of surprised me I had any sort of discipline gene :-). Secondly, but it’s unrealistic not to send family and friends pictures along the way. So like Stan said, the iPad is great for quick jpegs to post for family and friends! For the most part, while shooting during the travel day, I know which shots would be good to post, so I quickly look for those shots, do a quick post process and send. With the iPad I can send those shots in text messages and emails because I have cellular capabilities, but with wi-fi you can use that too, of course. I have the SD card adaptor to look for jpegs: adaptor plugs into the Lightening port, SD card slides into adaptor, images appear on screen. Thirdly, AS TO PHOTO APPS: I have bunches of those! But if I had to recommend a start bundle, my recommendation is as follows: Photos (which comes with iPad); Enlight (love this one!); Pixelmator (which I have for iOS and Mac & love); Photogene; and Path on—with Path on you can draw custom lines (using your finger or stylus) where you want your text to appear—pretty cool! I used this app for this past New Year’s photo/card to post for Facebook Friends! I am seriously thinking of purchasing the iPad Pro with keyboard and pencil, but that’s a possibility for the future. I did some serious test usage at the Apple store the other week and found it amazing. I tested the keyboard and pencil, and found the pencil just amazing, and the keyboard very good, though it doesn’t yield the uber smooth typing experience I have on my laptop. But the limitations of using an iPad need to be mentioned: to quote an article in the magazine MacWorld: “there’s still no system-level support for RAW formatted images. . . . The RAW files transfer to the iPad, but any edits you make are applied to the thumbnail preview the camera creates to display on its LCD. So, when you edit on the iPad, you’re not taking full advantage of the editing possibilities RAW formats offer.” Essentially, it’s a jpeg-tweaker :-). If I was on a profession photo gig, I would not rely on the iPad; I’d have to bring the laptop assuming I had to do serious processing while on the road and send photos to editor/client immediately etc. Hope that helps! Cheers, Christine > On Feb 11, 2016, at 11:45 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Stan. That's an interesting alternative. Hadn't htought about the RAW > + JPG approach and using a tablet to process the JPG files. What software are > you using on the ipad? Are you using a SD card reader with it, or does it > support SD cards directly? Any thoughts about how effective an ipad min would > be for photo work? > > Thanks > > Mark > > On 2/12/2016 12:05 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> Not an answer to your question, but an alternative to think about. >> I have a perfectly functional 7-year old laptop. I have lately used it only >> for photo processing while traveling. Increasing frustration as newer >> software and larger files bogged down my work. >> >> I had specced a new MacBook Pro with max memory etc. Looked at the price. >> Said screw it. >> >> On my recent four week trip to Chile I took multiple SD cards, a backup hard >> drive that reads directly from SD cards, and my iPad. I shot RAW + jpeg. >> Backed up and stashed the SD cards when full. I downloaded all jpeg images >> to my iPad. Did minimal processing along the way within Photos on the iPad. >> (Some pano stitching, color balance, sharpening... Basically minor >> tweaking.) Mostly just to share with traveling companions and people back >> home. Once back home I deleted the jpegs from my iPad. Downloaded the RAW >> files from their SD cards to Lightroom on my desktop and started processing. >> >> I am still trying to think of reasons to keep my old laptop. My iPad does >> everything faster and better than my laptop except the photo processing bit. >> If I had publication deadlines to worry about or some other time pressure, I >> would reconsider. >> >> stan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:56 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A couple days ago I dropped my 9 year old laptop and the hard drive was >>> trashed. I replaced it with one that I had on hand and am now completing >>> the process of downloading and applying every Windows Vista update patch >>> ever issued... One of the few things I still use this laptop for is >>> processing photos while traveling. My phone now handles email, casual web >>> browsing, etc. >>> >>> The laptop has a decent dual core processor (Intel Core 2 T5300) and 4 gigs >>> of ram. I've been using Photoshop CS 5.1 and bridge to review and do some >>> light processing of photos. K3 DNG files are pretty slow on this setup, K5 >>> files were not too bad. >>> >>> So - before I reinstall Photoshop, any suggestions about a leaner and >>> faster program for basic raw file processing? I don't want to spend much >>> money since I could upgrade to a much more competent laptop for a few >>> hundred dollars. But maybe there is a sleek and simple photo editor out >>> there. >>> >>> I'm also wondering if an earlier version of Photoshop might be the sweet >>> spot in terms of light footprint. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> --- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
