I am a PhotoShop user for years and years. I do not work with RAW that much as my Nikon takes some outstanding .jpegs. I mainly use the iPad for viewing to confirm I am getting what I need. My professional days are over except for friends and family so well exposed .jpegs still work great for me most the time. I ama ashamed to say that my iPhone gets more images than my Nikon these days. Have not have the Leica gear out in over a year. The good new is the Leica lenses have all gained substantially in value . . . That does not happen often.
Enjoy, the iPad works great and do what you wish.
Thanks, I'm looking forward to using it! I agree with the .jpegs vs RAW, that often we can get caught up in the processing of images so much we lose the impact of the actual subject matter and composition. So with friends and family, that makes a lot of sense. I still like to shoot RAW for landscape images to allow for better preservation of detail, so nice to have the option. (I've been getting into printing lately, trying to get my better images off the hard drive and onto paper and hanging on a wall, and RAW definitely helps with these types of images).
And no shame in taking more shots with the iPhone! I'm sure many of us are that way. After all, the best camera is the one you have on you, and as much as I love my Nikon and would love to have a Leica with great glass, they don't do much good when you can't bring them with you!
There is no “rubber band selection” or similar and no drag and drop. Also, thank to the lazy implementation, there is no quick view or similar. You have to decide if you want to import or not based on a small thumbnail. As I said, these limits may be dealbreakers or irrelevant. It depends on your workflow and on your willingness to adapt it to the iPad. If you just import everything to have a complete backup of the sd, I think the iPad is going to be good.
You bring up some good points - I'll have to think about that one. I've been trying to get better about not dumping my entire memory card into my library, only to make more work for myself later at home when I have a huge # of out of focus images to sort through. So that certainly may limit the utility of being on iPad only. In a way, it could force me to review images in camera and delete straight off the memory card - so I guess it force a good habit, but I could easily see it not working out that way!
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Of course if you only use the iPad as temporary storage and edit the files later with your computer, it’s not an issue.
It would be a nice bonus to start some editing while on the road, so I don't have to come home to a bunch of images to edit, but since I don't currently use my MB Air to edit while on the road, just having the storage would be a good enough feature to replace the MB Air.
I really wish Lightroom allowed for the main catalog to live on a network drive, so I wouldn't have to travel with an external hard drive for my LR catalog. I know many people keep their catalog on an external drive and travel with it, but I don't want to risk having my entire catalog on a less reliable portable drive that's also more likely to be lost/damaged. So for now, just temporary storage would be good enough.
