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iPad Camera Connection Kit info
Bryan Hulse, Photographer
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Travis Haughton, Photographer
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Crystal Lake | IL | USA | Posted: 12:53 AM on 05.13.10 |
| ->> Awesome. Now as soon as the Photo Mechanic people get their act together we'll really have something. |
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Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 3:32 AM on 05.13.10 |
->> Fellow SSer Chase Olivieri and I both have the connection kit. We connected CF Card Readers to the USB connector...works like a charm. Chase sent me a 15.2MB CR2 file from his iPad the day he bought the connector. Wild.
hehe.
aloha! |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 10:28 AM on 05.13.10 |
->> Travis, we've actually talked with the folks at PM and they are, obviously, looking at an iPad version. They are very savvy about adapting to new markets so I'm sure they would love to have an iPad app.
However there are some limitations they would have to work around in the way the iPad OS works and the fact it does not seem to be compatible with every card reader out there would limit some imports.
The biggest hurdle is that a company could spend a ton of time developing a program and then Apple says it too closely resembles their Photo application and won't allow it to be sold. If you're not sure you can sell it your incentive to spend lots of time developing is cut greatly.
I would like to see Canon and Nikon work with Apple to develop utilities for their cameras so you can tether a camera to feed directly to the iPad or do some camera programming such as date/time and WFT prefs from the iPad.
One way to make this happen would be for lots of photographers to flood Apple with requests that they approach Canon, Nikon and CameraBits about workign with them to develop tools for professional photographers and if such tools were developed pretty much every photographer out there would be buying an iPad. |
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Brad Barr, Photographer
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Port St. Lucie | FL | USA | Posted: 3:32 PM on 05.13.10 |
->> There is thread about that on another forum....I guess I cant see the desire to do all this on ipad.,...then have to reingest it all to your laptop to do the "real editing". Until you have PS and or LR with full functionality on an ipad....i see no real benefit from doing it on an ipad rather than the laptops we use now that do have full funtionality....and multiple usb ports, plenty of disc space, a real keyboard and mouse....
sure its new and wow and all that...but in reality, I think the laptop still wins easily for real world funtionality when it comes to processing images. |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 3:40 PM on 05.13.10 |
->> What would be nice is for Apple or a third party to develop a CF card option for the camera connection kit ... that would alleviate the card reader issues ....
I also agree that other than presentation of images on location ... there are really no useful options for ingesting and initial prep for a seamless workflow without replicating tasks afterward .... |
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Brad Barr, Photographer
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Port St. Lucie | FL | USA | Posted: 3:59 PM on 05.13.10 |
| ->> tbh...not including a/some usb inputs was ignorant on apples part |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 4:30 PM on 05.13.10 |
->> Brad,
My thought of using the iPad tethered is that an iPad is easier to hide out of the way than a laptop.
It would fit in a belt system pocket or hide away pretty easily on the back of a basketball shooting chair. With everything being fed into the iPad as you shoot you could quickly at a time out grab the iPad and e-mail of ftp a photo to your paper on deadline without ever having to spend time ingesting and without putting your $2000 laptop on the court.
The laptop would have to be open and sitting in a more open space than the iPad and therefor presents a bigger target for getting wiped out by an errant ball or athlete.
Plus if you are hiking around carrying a lot of gear on a cross country race or a demonstration, would you rather carry an iPad at 1.5 pounds and a build in cell connection or carry a laptop that weighs 6 pounds and needs a card modem to get your connection? And with the laptop you would have to stop and ingest the cards where with the iPad you could, possibly, be tethered and have all your shots the second you pull the computer out. |
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Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 8:01 AM on 05.18.10 |
->> anyone have problems with the iPad not loading the images on the card due to "not enough power" for the attached card reader...
and it kills the images on the card...where the card isn't readable in camera or on computer
anyone running into this?
I've been using a Hoodman UDMA CF Reader...with Extreme III 4GB cards... |
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Bryan Hulse, Photographer
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Nashville | Tn | USA | Posted: 11:32 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> Interesting quote and summary from the press release Robert posted:
"From what we can surmise, the iPad is meant for the consumption of media, not the production of media content." |
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