“As much as I enjoy my iPad, I’ve yet to find a photographic usage that I’d carry it to a shoot for.”
How does the Apple iPad fare in the field as a photographer’s companion? Thom Hogan finds out if the Apple iPad with the Camera Connection Kit [QuickPrice Check] can replace a laptop to field review images and get images to press ASAP.
Read the full article at: byThom [search for “iPad in the Field?”].
Luminous Landscape [25 April, 2010] remarks that the Camera Connection Kit would make “the iPad an ideal travel / storage / backup / review device for photographers working in the field.” It seems to us more like a casual remark than a firm opinion based on actual field testing of the iPad. We might yet see a field review of the iPad later on LL.
The iPad is great for reviewing photos, however even if you use small JPGS it soon fills up and I’ve found no way of selecting a whole album to delete other than connecting to a PC and operating on the file system from there, and even then it’s flaky 🙁