Ipad 3 And Dslr

[angiud]

The next month I'll go with some friends at Bogani Nani National Park in North Sulawesi for a 10 days photo safari (yuppi!!).

The problem I could have is the great amount of shot (RAW over 20 Mb each) I'll do daily.

Last week I was at Khao Sok N.P. for a 4 days photo trip (here the pictures) and due to the vicinity and going with my car it was easy to carry my 14" laptop with me and every night upload, control, manage and delete the pictures I've made was easy and extremely useful.

In Sulawesi will be a bit hard trip, by plane (normal and low cost) and my baggage should be definitely smaller and I was thinking of 2 solutions:

1st: just buy 4-5 more 16 Gb Compact Flash Cards (2000/3000 Baht each)

2nd: get a tablet

I don't love the apple more than a little and I've found the new Asus Transformer Prime as a good tablet with many good features, but now Apple has a new IPad with a gorgeous retina display, just perfect for photo use and a good 64 Gb room for a lot of bugs pictures.

Any feedback?

I have to buy the Photo Connection Kit to upload the pics to the Ipad, but how can I copy back home the 1000s pics back to my home pc?

Ipad on sale now in BKK are covered by a warranty?

[beachyman]

The next month I'll go with some friends at Bogani Nani National Park in North Sulawesi for a 10 days photo safari (yuppi!!).

The problem I could have is the great amount of shot (RAW over 20 Mb each) I'll do daily.

Last week I was at Khao Sok N.P. for a 4 days photo trip (here the pictures) and due to the vicinity and going with my car it was easy to carry my 14" laptop with me and every night upload, control, manage and delete the pictures I've made was easy and extremely useful.

In Sulawesi will be a bit hard trip, by plane (normal and low cost) and my baggage should be definitely smaller and I was thinking of 2 solutions:

1st: just buy 4-5 more 16 Gb Compact Flash Cards (2000/3000 Baht each)

2nd: get a tablet

I don't love the apple more than a little and I've found the new Asus Transformer Prime as a good tablet with many good features, but now Apple has a new IPad with a gorgeous retina display, just perfect for photo use and a good 64 Gb room for a lot of bugs pictures.

Any feedback?

I have to buy the Photo Connection Kit to upload the pics to the Ipad, but how can I copy back home the 1000s pics back to my home pc?

Ipad on sale now in BKK are covered by a warranty?

The iPad works pretty good for this type of solution but get the bigger model. I use the 16gig and it runs out of space if you have some videos and apps on there.

The camera pack has one that reads sd cards and one that reads USB, both work with my canon dslr I prefer not constantly taking the Sd cars out so I use the cable. great to view the pics on the go on a big screen too.

Plug the iPad to your computer and import as usual as if it was a camera. Only issue is I am not sure if it divides them up into dates or what not I have only done them on same day situations.

Though it's much lighter to just get a few more bigger sdhc cards.

[angiud]

The 'big' Canon use Compact Flash cards only.

Yes, I would like to get the 64 Gb version, Wifi only

[FracturedRabbit]

It works fine as a store for photos. The only problem I found was getting them off the iPad once you have uploaded them. If you have a Mac computer you can do this using the Image Capture application, not sure of a Windows solution other than flag each photo individually on the iPad and then deleting.

Photos look good on the iPad 2; no doubt they look spectacular on the new iPad.

I find iPhoto for the iPad to be a good tool for quickly playing with your shots if you can't wait till you get home.

[CaptHaddock]

I use a Sanho Hyperdrive USB storage unit. Very small. The older units without the display are cheaper. So, I only need 2 CF cards for the camera since I dump one card while using the other. At home plug the drive into the desktop where it appears as a USB drive. It's easy to replace the 2.5" SATA drive inside. You can even carry several of them to achieve TB of storage.

Here's an ebay listing for the newer version, but I prefer the older hyperdrive model although it might be hard to find now:

http://www.ebay.com/...vectorid=229466

Edited April 30, 2012 by CaptHaddock

[koknia]

I bought an 11" Mac Air for travel processing etc. (I have a 15" MacBook Pro for day to day photography work.)

The Air is a perfect solution IMO. You would want to have a USB drive as well to make sure everything is copied to 2 HDs.

Edited April 30, 2012 by koknia

[angiud]

I got in Bkk a new Ipad 3 (retina display) wifi 64 Gb and a Camera connection kit. The machine is awesome and immediate. Connect my Canon 7D and in few minutes i can see my pictures in the tablet with the 2048 pixel screen. I operate the selection and delete all the pictures I don't need. Easy back home connect the Ipad to my PC windows and copy the pictures in my backup HDD. Piece of cake!

I find the Ipad very useful, considering my next photo trip in Sulawesi for 10 days and the need to see with my friends, back in the camp, the pictures I got during the day, select, delete, discuss, ID etc.

I'm not a fan of Apple, but I must say they made a great device

[angiud]

Back to Thailand from Sulawesi with 2000 RAW pics in my Ipad (almost 45 Gb), copied in my PC in a flash one hour. I found the Ipad very useful both during my trip and back home.

[astral]

The latest Ipads are quite a bit heavier than the old models.

[angiud]

For sure not so light, but I don't know for sure being my first

[cdnvic]

Tablets are great for reviewing your day's work out in the field but there's two issues with them that keeps a laptop in my inventory:

1. Storage - You need to keep a lot of flash cards on hand because a days shooting RAW files will fill up a tablet in a hurry.

2. Editing and Processing - While programs like Revel are getting better, I still want Lightroom/GIMP/PS to do any serious processing.