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IPad Discussions

Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
Just a small update with my wife traveling. Okay Nancy is NOT a techno geek or gear slut like her husband. What i find interesting is a person like her and going through the Ipad as she travels . This morning she left Philly on a train back to NY. She said she read most of the time with her Ipad and played a little music. Too short a trip to start her movie, now at night in the hotel she has been doing the wifi stuff like internet , mail and such. She has a Iphone so she does get her mail all the time but she said she rather respond when she has the wifi on the Ipad since it is easier to type and such. For a non geeky person she maybe in this transition period of actually having fun and doing the geeky things at the same time. Her bag is certainly lighter from carrying a hard bound book and not carrying a laptop. heck even as shooters we could maybe even get away with Ipad and a storage device to download our CF and SD cards too and use as backup until you get home.

For instance i am shooting a wedding in Dallas this weekend and maybe the only reason to bring my laptop is to back my files up too. I won't be processing these on the road anyway. Heck since I have a 64 gb unit, I wonder.

maybe my question is this how do we download a CF card to the Ipad. In my case shooting CF cards rather have the USB connector and bring a reader but my question is this how do you download, is there a app to do that or do you import into iphoto and how do you get them off the Ipad to computer.

Well I can't try it this time since she has the Ipad but in the future how can we do this
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
At this time, I wouldn't use either an iPad or an iPhone/iPod Touch as a storage device for raw captures. If I could tether an external hard drive and a card reader to it specifically for that purpose, then it would be a sensible solution.

I have an Epson P2000 (getting a little long in the tooth, should update to the P5000 model) for when I need a backup/storage device because I don't want to carry the laptop. Card slots built in for CF and SD, allows review and peeking at EXIF data, histograms, etc. Been a very handy device when I want to minimize what I'm carrying.
 

Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
Well as i always do also Godfrey is never format a CF card on the road anyway. Have enough to completely cover yourself for sure and just put used CF cards away as backup as well. Regardless I highly recommend this no matter what. I agree the storage devices are very useful but it would be really nice to use a Ipad or touch as well. But only if there is a safe way to use it as a storage device. Obviously you have to worry about theft as well so never depend on one solution obviously.
 

Diane B

New member
At this time, I wouldn't use either an iPad or an iPhone/iPod Touch as a storage device for raw captures. If I could tether an external hard drive and a card reader to it specifically for that purpose, then it would be a sensible solution.

I have an Epson P2000 (getting a little long in the tooth, should update to the P5000 model) for when I need a backup/storage device because I don't want to carry the laptop. Card slots built in for CF and SD, allows review and peeking at EXIF data, histograms, etc. Been a very handy device when I want to minimize what I'm carrying.
I have a P2000 also and don't really want to buy the P5000--looked for something just for storage (I just carry a small external USB drive to back up laptop). I got mine out--haven't used it for quite awhile because it had issues with larger cards as I recall. I use a number of 4GB CF for the 5D and have never bought larger, but my SD cards are 4GB and 8GB--and the last firmware upgrade allows for up to 2GB but no larger.

I haven't used it in a good while and planned to sell it cheap, but most everyone will run into the same problem so unlikely I can sell it.

Diane.
 

Diane B

New member
Well as i always do also Godfrey is never format a CF card on the road anyway. Have enough to completely cover yourself for sure and just put used CF cards away as backup as well. Regardless I highly recommend this no matter what. I agree the storage devices are very useful but it would be really nice to use a Ipad or touch as well. But only if there is a safe way to use it as a storage device. Obviously you have to worry about theft as well so never depend on one solution obviously.
And my thought also. Since I likely won't buy until Fall all you early adopters will have figured it out, but I want to minimize my travel gear and the 3G Ipad seems a possibility.
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Well as i always do also Godfrey is never format a CF card on the road anyway. Have enough to completely cover yourself for sure and just put used CF cards away as backup as well. ...
That's a fine policy ... I do the same ... And doable nowadays with the insanely low cost of memory cards.

At one time, it wasn't possible to do this economically ... The P2000 for $400 would backup what would have cost me $1200 to replicate in memory cards to my primary card capacity. It's not sensible to spend multiple times the primary storage cost for backup only.

I want a backup copy as well, however. That's what the laptop with portable external drive or P2000 is for. I don't really worry about theft too much: in thirty years of extensive traveling, I've never had anything stolen but once (gifts I foolishly put in checked luggage). But I've had plenty of things damaged in use or transit.

As I said, I'll consider the iPad or iPod Touch a useful backup device, obsoleting the P2000, for raw images when I can hook an external drive and a card reader up to it and tell it where to put the files in such a manner that I can hook that drive up to a computer and read the files as I normally would. Nothing less is worth thinking about, to me.
 

docmoore

Subscriber and Workshop Member
maybe my question is this how do we download a CF card to the Ipad. In my case shooting CF cards rather have the USB connector and bring a reader but my question is this how do you download, is there a app to do that or do you import into iphoto and how do you get them off the Ipad to computer.

Well I can't try it this time since she has the Ipad but in the future how can we do this
Have not tried this but maybe...CF reader to hub wireless to iPad?

http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/belkins-next-gen-wi-fi-usb-hub/


Bob
 
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Godfrey

Well-known member
I have a P2000 also and don't really want to buy the P5000--looked for something just for storage (I just carry a small external USB drive to back up laptop). I got mine out--haven't used it for quite awhile because it had issues with larger cards as I recall. I use a number of 4GB CF for the 5D and have never bought larger, but my SD cards are 4GB and 8GB--and the last firmware upgrade allows for up to 2GB but no larger.

I haven't used it in a good while and planned to sell it cheap, but most everyone will run into the same problem so unlikely I can sell it.
Same here, Diane. I've got 36 G capacity in 18x 2G SD storage cards for use on the road, tailored to the P2000 max limit per card capacity and storage space. I'd like to upgrade to 800G SDHC cards (that's what I use when not traveling) as it is a much more efficient usage with larger storage cards, but I'm reluctant to spend the money for the P5000.

Someone creates a drive and reader interface and a file-handling application to move my files there with the iPad, I'll go for it.
 

Terry

New member
For travel purely backup storage I'm using a Nexto drive. It doesn't have lots of bells and whistles but it ingests the cards very quickly and has an easy interface. The goal for me is to never need to get the info from that drive. So far I haven't needed to extract anything as the SD/CF cards haven't failed. On a dedicated photo trip I will shot too much to use an IPad for the storage. With a 24mp camera on a two week trip 54gb isn't enough.
 
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Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
Workshop or trip like that never the laptop goes. But for weekend to the cabin or something like that. It certainly would nice to leave the laptop home.
 

Diane B

New member
Terry--is that a "Next" drive? I couldn't find anything by googling. I've seen the Passport and whatever the Seagate one is (Go I think) but I think they are both w/o card slots. All I would like is a no frills-just storage drive. This sounds good.
 

Terry

New member
Terry--is that a "Next" drive? I couldn't find anything by googling. I've seen the Passport and whatever the Seagate one is (Go I think) but I think they are both w/o card slots. All I would like is a no frills-just storage drive. This sounds good.
Sorry typo (iPhone) NEXTO is the brand. Check Amazon and B&H. They have all different hard drive sizes.
 
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Oxide Blu

Guest
There may be a way around whatever shortcomings are in the iPad:

Slate Wars: 15 Tablets That Could Rival Apple's iPad
The iPad has captured many hearts and minds, but a fleet of rival tablets led by a separatist Android army is about to attack, armed with HD Flash video, multitouch screens, front-facing cameras, multitasking...even Windows 7.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/192496/slate_wars_15_tablets_that_could_rival_apples_ipad.html

And Google is now saying they may get into the tablet wars, too. I think flat, low cost, lightweight computers with extensive connectivity are going to be at our feet a lot faster than expected.
 

monza

Active member
Multitouch Windows machines have been on the market for over two years, Dell Latitude XT being the first. They didn't exactly set the world on fire...
 

Terry

New member
I think the difference with the ipad and tablets of the past is the operating system. While some people want full blown computer functionality with what we think of as a computer OS, the beauty of the ipad is the simplicity. No booting up, the OS is transparent to the user, and the apps can be sensational.

Competition is good and it sparks creativity.

Personally, for me everything is working with my current computer/ipad/iPhone setup and it would take some huge leap to split up my phone and tablet into two different platforms seeing as I can now share apps.
 
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monza

Active member
Exactly. A tablet really works better with an OS that is designed specifically for it, and no one beats Apple when it comes to UI innovation.
 

MoJo

Registred Users
Re: IPad Discussions Simple Question - No Answer So Far??

i'd like to use my IPad as a photo display, to show groups of photos, say photo essays, and folios. the photos need to be in a set order. no matter how i organize them in my folder i import from through itunes, they get shuffled. it is such a simple thing, i just want my order of photos. I am going through the built in photo App, which otherwise works well. I don't want to buy ilife, to use iphoto, i tried iphoto 08 and it is another mind-numbing program. why do they make these simple things so complicatedhttp://forum.getdpi.com/forum/images/smilies/angry.gif

you guys are much more tech than me, any solutions? and yes, i tried numbering the files. - 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc. doesn't work.

-Josef
 

GrahamWelland

Subscriber & Workshop Member
I think that the tablet competition would have been a lot more effective over the years if PC manufacturers got out of the mindset of building nasty crappy plastic pieces of cheap junk rather than learning from the industrial design and superb quality and feel that Apple manage to achieve.

This applies to laptops and desktops too. I get sent a number of PCs for my day job - typically Dell's finest - and they are without exception cheap and plastic feeling. The NetBook I have is abysmal (I call it my CrapBook or CheapBook). Performance typically is fine but build typically is cheap unless you buy a specialist box. By contrast, I spend my own personal money on Apple hardware, even if more expensive for the same hardware configuration.

Pick up an iPad and you'll get an immediate feeling that you've got a quality piece of technology in your hands. Nobody I've showed mine to has had anything less than an 'oohhh, must have' reaction to it.

Still, it's not perfect. Absence of Flash is a pain :banghead::banghead:
 
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