HI There Cliff
Thanks for your long post about the joys of the iPad on holiday (and suggestions for good apps). I was going to get the Tide Table app for our trip to Crete . . . then I remembered that the tides there are less than a foot, so it's hardly worth knowing :ROTFL:
I was just testing to see how the photo transfer system worked to see what I could transfer. Basic curiosity to understand if the iPad could act as a backups system to my cards while traveling. The files that I processed are jpegs, PhotoForge, PhotoGene, and Filterstorm all output as jpeg files. I also tried moving files that were not processed, and they also moved over as jpeg. Images selected from the Photos and Albums lists were jepgs. I just tried moving a photo over from the Events list and it also came over as a jpeg. This may be because of the kind of raw file, as I was using my Panasonic G2. I will try with my Canon 1DsmkII at some point this week to see if that has a different result. I must have missed a bunch of discussion on the photo transfer app on this thread as you mentioned other discussion twice now. I will have to go back through this thread again.
Using the camera connector kit it will transfer whatever is on the SD card to the iPad (Raw, Raw+jpg, jpg). This means that it will act very well as a backup.
However, it will only show one image in the photo-app. If you have shot JPG, or RAW+JPG, then it will show the jpg. IF you have shot just RAW, then it will show the embedded JPG from the RAW file.
If you delete a photo, then it will delete both the RAW and the JPG (assuming you shot both). This is convenient, as it means that when you get back home, you won't have to go through and delete the rubbish all over again.
Applications like Photogene etc will use the jpg if you've shot one, otherwise they also will use the embedded JPG from the RAW file (this is very irritating with the M9, where the embedded jpg is very small).
The upshot of all this is that the iPAD can be very usefully used on a trip - upload all files from the SD card(s), do your culling in comfort in some bar or other. When you get back, upload from the iPAD rather than the cards, and you will just get the selected files.
I have not deleted anything from Photos yet. The Photo transfer app does not do that. You have to do it in Photos independent of the photo transfer app. pretty straight forward in Photos to delete things.
This is a problem (see Uwe's post above). It's not quite so much of a pain as it seems at first, but it's quite an effort.
Basically, you need to go into the imports folder, choose the edit button, put a tick against each image one by one :sleep006::sleep006: then choose to delete.
I've done hundreds of images like this - it's irritating, but not impossible. For a wedding with thousands of images I think my patience might be tried!
As a rule of thumb I reckon I can tick two images per second - so deleting 600 images would take 5 minutes.
The other real irritation for me is that when you import the images to Aperture, it insists on making a new project at the top level for every day. You can, however, choose where the files are copied to (not split on a daily level).
Room for improvement.
On the other hand, we visited someone for their 2nd wedding anniversary celebration on Saturday - I'd shot the wedding in Spain 2 years ago. It was the work of minutes to get the images onto the iPad, which was passed around the evening - a real success, and not something you can really do with a laptop.