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Sorry. I don't believe there is. Would be very useful though. I assume you have the excellent camera connector so you can upload to the iPad either by sd card or USB?
Graham, Apple don't want you to do things like this with the iPad. This is why it has no USB ports, and no memory card slots.
Ian
Hi
Not quite right. Apple don't mind you doing this they just want you to pay £25 for the privilege. They sell a camera kit which plugs into the iPad and allows you either to connect a camera direct or plug in a sd card direct.
I have one of these and as with most apple products the process is very smooth. The iPad automatically uploads the photos including Raw files, puts them in an album and then gives you the option to delete the card or keep the pictures on there as well. You can then view and if you want edit on the iPad before transferring off. It's no substitute for working on raw files in lightroom but it is nice seeing your pictures on a great screen whilst on the move
Graham, Apple don't want you to do things like this with the iPad. This is why it has no USB ports, and no memory card slots.
Ian
Indeed But then they bring out a Next Generation version that has such things, so that people will upgrade. I've seen some "Web Cam" products that are "in development" that may well do what I want.
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Hi
Not quite right. Apple don't mind you doing this they just want you to pay £25 for the privilege. They sell a camera kit which plugs into the iPad and allows you either to connect a camera direct or plug in a sd card direct.
I have one of these and as with most apple products the process is very smooth. The iPad automatically uploads the photos including Raw files, puts them in an album and then gives you the option to delete the card or keep the pictures on there as well. You can then view and if you want edit on the iPad before transferring off. It's no substitute for working on raw files in lightroom but it is nice seeing your pictures on a great screen whilst on the move
Best regards
Josh
This feature is one of the attractions for me. I just wish that the feature could be expanded on so that "Camera Control" could be achieved. I can't believe that there isn't some guru that could whistle up an App to make all the cameras, that have it, send a live view to the Ipad and then activate the shutter when either the camera is fired or the screen is tapped. The raw files stored in the camera could then be downloaded later.
I guess it's like most things these days, it has to be "Commercially Viable" or someone with real interest knocks it up as shareware...
Graham wants to see the live view on the screen. As far as I'm aware, there is no composite video input (nor option) to do this on the iPad. You could do this on a laptop PC of course (even if the PC doesn't have a video-in port, third party USB video grabbers are ten-a-penny) and a PC (or a MacBook) would be compatible with Olympus Studio 2, which includes tethered camera control.
My own HP laptop has a touch screen so you could trigger the capture by tapping the screen.
Even if you could cobble-together an iPad app you would have to get it through the Apple validation process - not an easy task. Only apps validated by Apple are permitted to run on the iPad unless you start hacking the OS.
At the weekend my nephew showed me his new HTC phone, which he thinks is better than the Iphone. While I have no interest what so ever in these things, it did get me thinking about what the alternatives to the Ipad will have in the way of features and capabilities that will be better suited to my needs.
My laptop that I use with Studio 2 for teathered shoots is nearly 9 years old, so an upgrade is well over due The Ipad looked like an ideal solution (not that it would have run Studio 2) but with the lack of this capability, maybe one of the latest laptops will be a better buy...
At the weekend my nephew showed me his new HTC phone, which he thinks is better than the Iphone. While I have no interest what so ever in these things, it did get me thinking about what the alternatives to the Ipad will have in the way of features and capabilities that will be better suited to my needs.
My laptop that I use with Studio 2 for teathered shoots is nearly 9 years old, so an upgrade is well over due The Ipad looked like an ideal solution (not that it would have run Studio 2) but with the lack of this capability, maybe one of the latest laptops will be a better buy...
Suggestions are always appreciated.
Thanks
Which model HTC phone does your nephew have?
The Google Android platform does include iPad alternatives, but it's 'work in progress' really. But I'm sure these devices when fully commercialised will have memory card slots and USB ports as standard.
Samsung is rumoured to be bringing one out next month, too.
But Google's OS people are still focused on phones at the moment and OS 2.20 in particular. Once that is done and dusted shortly, I think there will be a boost towards pad/tablet/slate (what every you want to call it!) development.
Windows 7 does have mature pen-based touch screen support (it's not so well optimised for finger-use) and there are several choices for touch screen Windows laptops from Acer, HP, Toshiba, and others. Mine is a couple of years old now and no longer made (HP TX2130ea) and cost £650 two years ago. Its replacement - the HP TM2 range, is much more sophisticated and battery-effecient, also has an alloy frame and capacitive touch screen (finger-friendly) as well as Wacom pen support. Prices around £700.
I have no idea Knowing him it's likely to be the top of the range one as he works for a "Phone" company
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The Google Android platform does include iPad alternatives, but it's 'work in progress' really. But I'm sure these devices when fully commercialised will have memory card slots and USB ports as standard.
Samsung is rumoured to be bringing one out next month, too.
But Google's OS people are still focused on phones at the moment and OS 2.20 in particular. Once that is done and dusted shortly, I think there will be a boost towards pad/tablet/slate (what every you want to call it!) development.
Windows 7 does have mature pen-based touch screen support (it's not so well optimised for finger-use) and there are several choices for touch screen Windows laptops from Acer, HP, Toshiba, and others. Mine is a couple of years old now and no longer made (HP TX2130ea) and cost £650 two years ago. Its replacement - the HP TM2 range, is much more sophisticated and battery-effecient, also has an alloy frame and capacitive touch screen (finger-friendly) as well as Wacom pen support. Prices around £700.
Ian
As always some excellent thought provoking comments from Ian - Much appreciated.
As for the Ipad - I decided to finally go to the Apple Store at Lakeside to get my hands on one and see if I liked it.
"Have you got one with a camera attachment?"
"We haven't got any in the shop"
"When will you have them?"
"In about Six to Eight weeks"
She tried to sell me a MacBook Pro but wouldn't allow me to put my card into the machine to see what my "calibration" images look like.
I wasn't overly impressed with the glossy screen, so I'm fairly sure I shall be looking at a good spec laptop.
There is an "APP" for the Ipod, Iphone which I dare say will work for the Ipad that works with Nikon & Canon.
SO: I wrote to the producers and received the following reply:
While C&N have a good proportion of the market, there is still a huge number of "Others" that could make very good use of this capability.
All seems a bit short sighted to me
Indeed, there are over a million Olympus DSLR users out there. If you can't make a success out of that kind of installed base, then one wonders, eh? A tenth of a percent of a million is 10,000 - sell your software to 10,000 users at $29.99 and that's $300,000 in revenues.
I don't think it is that we are richer or more confident than our Windows user counterparts. I think it is that we have more spare time because our machines are faster and don't keep crashing ! You have to have something to do to pass the time you are not spending waiting for the computer to reboot.
I don't think it is that we are richer or more confident than our Windows user counterparts. I think it is that we have more spare time because our machines are faster and don't keep crashing ! You have to have something to do to pass the time you are not spending waiting for the computer to reboot.
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But then they bring out a Next Generation version that has such things, so that people will upgrade. I've seen some "Web Cam" products that are "in development" that may well do what I want.
The Ipad looked like an ideal solution (not that it would have run Studio 2) but with the lack of this capability, maybe one of the latest laptops will be a better buy...
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Knowing him it's likely to be the top of the range one as he works for a "Phone" company 
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