![]() Enough that I am now switching over to the iPad and Lightroom Mobile as my primary photography solution. The performance/speed aside from the rasterization issue I mentioned earlier is very good indeed.Įnd result? It’s a great solution for MOST tasks. The display, while obviously smaller than a 5k desktop monitor, is really good and a joy to use. Better than a desktop even with a tablet. And the photo editing experience on the iPad, especially with the new pencil, is exceptional. For many photographers it is quite literally all they would need. It will allow you to backup files, perform the vast majority of photo edits, sync to the cloud, share with friends and family, etc. No question it’s a great choice for travel or for events. First, it is portable-much more so than even a MacBook Pro or Air. So, what good is the iPad Pro if it has all these limitations? Turns out, there’s actually a lot it is quite good at. There are other features missing as well such as panorama stitching, HDR combine, etc. By the time you use up that terabyte, support for local storage should have improved dramatically (next version of iOS due this fall). ![]() It also virtually requires online storage, so expect the subscription price to go up a bit since you’ll likely need at least a terabyte of online storage. There are still some features that it “gives up” compared to its desktop cousin. ![]() There are even a few things I like better than full blown Photoshop, so I’m not knocking it, but there are limitations in the iPad version. Affinity is a good program in general, and there is a lot I like about it. That may be a somewhat extreme example, but it will be important for some photographers (as it is for me). For example, I can rasterize 6 layers of a 50 megapixel image in a couple minutes, but doing the same to 20 layers took about five hours. There are also occasional performance issues with Affinity Photo. You just can’t push an 8-bit file that hard. For example, to move things from Lightroom Mobile to Affinity Photo you need to export them as 8-bit JPG’s first, so you better have already done a lot of the image processing or you will be losing a lot of dynamic range. Affinity Photo is a good application for tasks that would otherwise require Photoshop (like working with layers), but there are still limitations. There is not yet a Photoshop for iPad, though it is in beta right now and expected GA before the end of the year. For example, the current process for getting photos into Lightroom from a digital camera is to first import them into Photos, then into Lightroom, then delete them from Photos.Ĥ) Lightroom Mobile is almost certainly the best non-destructive organizing and editing app out there for the iPad. This should improve dramatically in the next version of iOS in a month or two. Not elegant, but technically feasible.ģ) The file management support is still very poor. Even if you have a monitor that works with the iPad, it will only mirror the display and there is no mouse support, so the iPad will need to act as a giant touchpad. It will drive many 4K monitors but not most 5K monitors. The connectors look identical, but the protocols are not the same. The current iPad Pro is USB-C, but not Thunderbolt 3. This is both a hardware issue as well as an iOS issue. There are still some serious gaps to be aware of, though.ġ) If you intend to print at home, the iPad alone is not a good choice.Ģ) If you intend to drive a large display, the iPad is not a good choice. In fact, for many tasks I prefer it to my notebook and external monitor. Is it enough? As with everything else in photography, my answer is, “it depends.”įor many tasks it works well. I have a current model iPad Pro-the version with 1 TB of storage and the extra RAM. I have been trying to “leave the computer behind” in photography for years.
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