True, but people are also looking for backup support for external devices which the iPad does not directly support. At times, the cloud is not an option - last three trips I took covering 5+ weeks I had no Internet access for the majority of the time (the little time it was available it was low bandwidth).
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True, but people are also looking for backup support for external devices which the iPad does not directly support. At times, the cloud is not an option - last three trips I took covering 5+ weeks I had no Internet access for the majority of the time (the little time it was available it was low bandwidth).
Operative word in mine was "original" - many, many years old.
Edit - around the same time, I was using a 1Gb Compact Flash IBM microdrive (rotating media) in a first-generation digital camera. I think that one cost me $100 at the time.
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Lightroom just got an update and now is exactly what I wanted. You can now use the Apple Pencil to do selective edits, such as dodging and burning and they have reworked the interface on the iPad so it is no longer just a large version of the iPhone one.
I can finally stop looking for the editing side of the equation. I now just need to find an easy way to get multiple backups. If Amazon drive and Apple’s SD card reader are supported in iOS 11’s files app then that might be that sorted as well.
I can finally stop looking for the editing side of the equation. I now just need to find an easy way to get multiple backups. If Amazon drive and Apple’s SD card reader are supported in iOS 11’s files app then that might be that sorted as well.
What an amazing upgrade of Lightroom Mobile. Looks like the desktop version now! Really liking it.
Agreed. Nice to see Adobe making a commitment to a platforms beyond the desktop. Back in 2006 I was unhappy when Adobe bought out RawShooter, the RAW processing s/w I had been using, but they have evolved LR into an excellent product over the years.
It’s a great update. Except that they seem to have removed the ability to swipe up and down to rate or flag photos. That was my preferred way to cull photos.
So far in the iOS 11 beta there are a lot of services that are supported in the File app (Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) but there is a bug where the SD card reader doesn’t work at all (not even in the photos app). If I can access the SD card in the Files app, make a folder on my Amazon Drive (unlimited photo storage with Prime) I could then backup all my photos to there, maintaining an organised file structure as well as copying them into the photos app (extra backup and easy to browse/share/load for editing in Lightroom).
With the Lightroom update and iOS 11 I feel like we are so close to me being able to easily use my iPad for 100% of my photo workflow.
With the Lightroom update and iOS 11 I feel like we are so close to me being able to easily use my iPad for 100% of my photo workflow.
This is good news. I am a prime member but have not taken advantage of Amazon Drive (been using google drive for most of my cloud storage).
I am looking to buy an 10.5" iPP with 256gb of storage. But am debating if maybe the 64gb would suffice with all the cloud storage options and put that money towards a cellular version instead. I am not a professional and just do hobbits photography. And don't really have a problem loading music and videos on and off as needed.
Hmm
Hi I am considering an IPP, 4 issues are unclear:
- Can you at least caption images in LR mobile? If I have to transmit an assignment, photos must be captioned.
- When you transfer to the computer or to a device like the Kingston MobileLite, do you use a direct wifi connection or it is via the internet / cloud? The latter could be an issue if you are somewhere with slow of data limited connections
- are there FTP apps for the iOS? To transmit assignments
- is the iPad Pro more powerful than a Macbook 12"?
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Yes to captioning - lr mobile is almost feature complete vs desktop
I usually use creative cloud to sync when on WiFi so cannot comment on Kingston mobile lite
Yes there are ftp apps in iOS but have never used them for transfer images.
And finally lr mobile on an iPad pro is way faster than a Macbook. It is in fact faster than my 13" Macbook pro
Thank you.
Can you paste the settings to multiple images? Or edit multiple photos at once? Tried on my Android phone but it seems I can copy / paste settings only one image at the time.
So wifi is via Adobe cloud / internet? Must be slow to transfer 8 GB of images and video.
Can you paste the settings to multiple images? Or edit multiple photos at once? Tried on my Android phone but it seems I can copy / paste settings only one image at the time.
So wifi is via Adobe cloud / internet? Must be slow to transfer 8 GB of images and video.
I like to put my initials in the corner of my photos as a watermark. LR Mobile doesn't have a watermarking function that I can see. If anyone knows how to do it, please let me know. My workaround is to process the photo in LR Mobile, then pop it into Polaar to export with my watermark as Polaar does have the watermark ability. However, Polaar is not as good as LR for the actual processing of the photos.
Thank you. What is the transfer speed? I could justify buying a 2016 9.7" iPad Pro, which has only USB 2.0, too slow. If Kingston Mobilite is fast, it can be a great way to sync photos between iPad and computer.
But on a trip, can you backup the Mobilite to another drive?
The Wireless transfer speed to the Mobilite isn't very fast, I'm sure it topped out around 5 Mb/s. You actually write and read to a connected USB drive or a SD card and you can also copy directly between both of these sources e.g. Copy photos from a SD card to a USB Pendrive.
So it is about 5 seconds per image with 24 Mb average sized raw files. Pretty slow if you have to copy 300 images and some video files, could take half hour or so.
How would I copy photos to a USB pen drive from a SD?
Yes, that is correct regarding speeds.
For copying between drives, in the app you can select the images from the SD card, select the copy option then navigate to the USB drive and paste. The copy happens directly between the drives and does not touch the iOS device.
For copying between drives, in the app you can select the images from the SD card, select the copy option then navigate to the USB drive and paste. The copy happens directly between the drives and does not touch the iOS device.
I have been using the ravpower fiehub for a couple of years as a backup method and also find it very slow. In an effort to speed things up I decided to try Apple's latest lightning SD card reader for the import phase of my workflow. The problem that I've run into is that it routinely misses a small percentage of raw files during import. For example, if I import 300 raw images it will fail to import 3-6 of those images. I have repeated this with multiple cards (formatted in the camera) and fresh sets of images each time and the result is always the same with a handful of images not recognized by the reader. The same cards on both a Mac or PC show all of the images and there is nothing unique about their size or exif data to set them apart from the other images that are imported. The filehub is also able to "see" and transfer the full set of images. I even tried a second Apple adapter with the same result. Apple support has been useless.
Sure it's only 1-2% of the images but as a backup solution that's not acceptable.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
That would really be a pain. I'd rather deal with the slower fire-and-forget FileHub transfer than have to figure out what files were and were not transferred out of a large selection and transfer those in an additional step. With the FileHub, I just set it down and let it go.
Exactly and it's not like it was consistently files at the beginning or the end of a sequence. They were missed seemingly at random. I've returned the reader to Apple and will stick with the Filehub for now. As others have said in this thread, this is depressing-importing and exporting files shouldn't be this hard!
It's one of the reasons I went back to using a lightweight, high-quality laptop for traveling (Dell XPS 13 QHD). It's just easier to work with all-around and with essentially unlimited local storage that transfers easily back in the home environment. Lightroom runs great on it and includes my custom presets, etc.
I've tried a couple of different Lightning storage devices - Leef & Meenova - and have run into different issues with each. The iPad just does not play well with external storage but I need it on a lot of traveling where Internet (cloud) access is simply unavailable or so slow as to be unusable.
Adobe & Gnarbox have just updated both of their iPad apps to support the iOS Files app!
One step closer to the dream! I can now see photos on external HDDs that are connected via the Gnarbox from inside the Lightroom Mobile app. The next step is to be allowed to edit them without having to add them to the internal SSD.
One step closer to the dream! I can now see photos on external HDDs that are connected via the Gnarbox from inside the Lightroom Mobile app. The next step is to be allowed to edit them without having to add them to the internal SSD.