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zoomIT for SD Cards for Transmitting?
Gerry Maceda, Photographer
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La Quinta | CA | | Posted: 8:04 PM on 10.12.10 |
->> I am trying to avoid tethering or air card charges and do not really need internet access except for emailing images to my editor, does anybody use zoomIT for SD Cards for transmitting in the field thru an iPhone? http://www.zoomitonline.com/
My planned workflow is after ingesting, captioning and toning from my laptop, I will transfer images to an SD card and have the images transfered to my iPhone via the zoomIt for emailing to my editor.
Thanks in advance! |
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Stephen Brashear, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 10:15 PM on 10.12.10 |
| ->> Gerry - You might contact Josh Trujillo the photographer at SeattlePI.com. He has been using it for a while now. |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 12:16 AM on 10.13.10 |
->> Gerry,
I do. It works pretty well.
I import only the photos I want to send using Zoomit, the pictures automatically go into the Photos app on the iPhone. Then I use Filterstorm (http://filterstorm.com/) to edit, crop and caption. When I am done, I use the filterstorm ftp client to transmit directly to my paper.
It's pretty slow but it works okay. Laptop is faster but if you're in situation where you don't have access to the laptop and they need the photo NOW it works.
One oddity of the iPhone/iPad OS is that, officially, you don't have access to the IPTC section of the photo's metadata. So as soon as the photo hits the Photos app in the phone, (after you've edited it) the IPTC data gets stripped out.
Filterstorm's workaround is to embed the caption into the photo when you export either through ftp or email. But as soon as leave Filterstorm the caption is stripped out of the photo. Also, at this point you can only work on one photo at a time in Filterstorm, so there's no queuing images up and transmitting while you drive. Filstorm works on a copies of your photo, so your original is untouched. Also, neither the iPhone nor the iPad (this also works on the iPad) have the guts to convert RAW files, so it's JPEG only.
I did a blog entry on using the Zoomit and Filterstorm on my website: http://web.mac.com/kurtzjack/jacks_joint/Geek_Speak/Entries/2010/10/1_Let’s_Get_Small.html (cut and paste the link, I don't think it's clickable, or go to my homepage www.jackkurtzphotography.com and click on the Geek Speak section)
Let me know if you have other questions. |
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Gerry Maceda, Photographer
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La Quinta | CA | | Posted: 1:12 AM on 10.13.10 |
->> Thanks for the info. Stephen I will try to contact Josh Trujillo.
Jack,
Thanks for responding. I am planning on captioning from my laptop and using zoomIT just to transfer the images to my iPhone. I will not use Filterstorm to caption or FTP. Will the iPhone Photo app. strip the IPTC info. or resize the images after transferring thru zoomIT? If I use iTunes to transfer the photos to be transmitted, the photos gets resized, renamed and the IPTC info. are lost. Thanks again! |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 1:26 AM on 10.13.10 |
->> You can email straight out of the Zoomit app (a free download once you buy the reader and one the reader needs to work). The *should* preserve the IPTC info. My understanding is that once the photo hits the Photos app in the iPhone iptc gets stripped out. I haven't actually tried it though so I couldn't swear to it. You can't ftp out of zoomit though. The trick to emailing is to make sure you select "original size" before you send the photo, otherwise it will get sized down.
jack |
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