Real-world working review of the new iPad pro

[Robertjan88]

like many of you, today I have the new 12.9” Pro coming (about to leave to pick it up from ups). I also have a large shoot this weekend for a fashion show. How many of you would be interested in a real-world working review of this new pro from the perspective of a photographer. Thinking about trying to use it exclusively to edit this weekends shoot.

That would be amazing!

 

[macdaddy1991]

That would be great. Do you use Lightroom on the iPad? If so, do you use the cloud storage to sync to your Mac for printing or any final finishing?

I currently use Lightroom in this way: I have folders synced to the creative cloud that only upload smart previews. I dump them on my Mac to an external 2TB SSD, and have everything archived to dual large spinning drives. I have them automatically imported into some folders that sync to the cloud. Those folders show up on my iPad Pro and I can flat, star, edit them on there but I can only output lower resolution of like 2500px or something, which is fine for sharing to the web, so I do that sometimes. If there is something I need to edit in more detail I will sometimes import to Affinity Photo, but I don't get the full resolution unless I sign up with Adobe to put the full resolution in the cloud so I have to edit them again on my Mac if I want to print them. I also have my display calibrated with my printer and paper profiles so I make final tweaks on my Mac before printing.

So I'd be interested if you or any other photographers on here use Adobe's cloud to store full resolution. I have 42MP files from a Sony a7R III so they're a little on the big side, especially when I shoot uncompressed RAW (like 85MB a photo or something), which isn't very often but still it might take a while to load. It would be nice to be able to export full resolution into other editing apps, or to be able to crop heavily on things like wildlife photos where my telephoto lens doesn't quite reach but I still have lots of resolution to play with. Also, when you have full resolution photos in there, does it allow you to zoom in while retaining sharpness, or is it still a smart preview until you export it so that it runs smoothly?

I don’t personally use adobes cloud solutions as it just seems too prohibitive to me. Most of my shoots push 60-100GB in raw files so trying to sync that with the cloud would be a nightmare. To see how this works, I plan on importing to Lightroom on the iPad, editing all within the Lightroom app, and then exporting them to the Files app (probably my iCloud Drive). The biggest issue I see coming is I’ll have no way to save this into my Lightroom catalogue. I’m really hoping that Adobe add external storage support to work off of external hard drives. From what I’ve gathered from multiple reviews is that apple is telling media outlets that it’s up to the developers to support external storage in their apps. Without having an option to dump each shoot onto an external, I cant see this replacing my desktop workflow.

 

[flur]

I am just wondering if Apple Pencil would help in this case? I use Numbers quite extensively on iPad, but it's hard to point at a cell very precisely with fingers.

It’s really, really difficult to select a large number of rows and move data around. The pencil likely won’t help with that, though I’ll sure give it a shot.

I don’t have a hard time selecting cells, I just zoom a little bit if I need to.