luketrot wrote:
What makes the iPad better then a laptop for these tasks?
Do you mean, what would make such a hypothetical tablet (not necessarily iPad) better than a laptop for such a purpose? The reason is that I don't have to rest a tablet on a working surface. Laptops are cumbersome to use on location unless I can put it on a table and sit down in front of it. By contrast, I can grab the tablet with one hand and work on it with the other. I can hand it to an assistant or the model or a client. They could practically be in mid-pose and I could just take it and show them, "here, this is what it looks like. Try moving this way or adjusting your pose like so." And they aren't straining to see a dinky 3" screen on the back of a camera that's strapped around my neck.
If a MacBook Air could fold its screen all the way around, and the screen were a multi-touch capacitive design, it would effectively become a tablet with most of these capabilities.
There are certain things that a tablet's form factor permits that a folding laptop design does not.
Sync to camera to show photos as they are being taken
Use of the new Eye-Fi cards is amazing
Contract maker apps
Lighting apps with How-Tos
Posing apps for models (if they want extra help)
Can take a digital portfolio anywhere I go and much easier than transporting a laptop
Do you guys mind listing the Apps that you are using on your IPAD's?
I'd like to start using my IPAD more but am not sure which Apps are worthwhile....thanks.
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Oct 14, 2011 at 04:30 PM
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PS Express - Making minor adjustments to images
Shuttersnitch - Wireless transfer of images
Pixelsync - For linking projects from Aperture to the iPad. I can then rate images and import back to Aperture
Photographers Contract Maker - Allows you to fill in info and get signatures from Model then email the contract
PhotoPad - Allows editing of images
Snapseed - allows real editing of images
Herb, do you have "location" services enabled for photogene? If not, you will see pixelated images. I think Photoshop for iPad does the same thing.....I know it sounds strange, but I was having the same issue with Nikon RAW files, and then I found a tip that suggested enabling locations services, and whaLaa, perfect images!
Greg
HerbChong wrote:
virtually all the iPad apps work on the embedded JPG. Nikon, Canon, and most other RAW file formats include full resolution JPG. that's what most of the apps are working on. some RAW formats embed different sized or no JPG at all. those RAW formats have trouble on the iPad. i tried a number of photo apps and the Leica M DNG RAW files contain a very small embedded JPG. PhotoGene and others see it and render an extremely pixelated display. that tells me that all these apps are only working on the JPG representation and means that i lose all the benefit of having shot RAW in the first place if i process on the iPad. all i do when i read my Nikon and Olympus RAW files on my iPad are to create quick slide shows when i don't have my computer handy or for quick low resolution posts online. any editing i do is throwaway.
