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April 15, 2012
The iPad 3
The iPad 3 is second to none when it comes to displaying photos. You can scroll through hundreds of photos in a second, zoom in our out. It's an amazing tool that's worlds above looking at photos on any other device I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the iPad doesn't really have a champion inside of Apple and Apple isn't quite sure where it fits in the grand scheme of things. In size, it's in between the iPhone and the MacBook.
But they apparently haven't realized that they need to let the iPad stand on its own. It's nearly impossible to get photos into the iPad. The only way I can get images into the thing is by hooking the Apple Camera Connection Kit directly to my Canon EOS 50D camera.
I do all of my photo work in Adobe Photoshop CS5 on a laptop or a desktop, then I have to rename my images to an 8 character file name with a .JPG extension, copy them into the \DCIM\100CANON folder. Then, I copy the files onto my CF card. Then, I have to stick the CF card into my Canon EOS 50D. Then, I connect the camera to the iPad 3 via the Apple Camera Connection Kit. Finally, the iPad3 will see the images and allow them to be imported.
However, once they're all in the iPad, pretty much all you can do is look at them. No filenames are displayed. The only way I've found to delete them is one at a time, and it asks you three times to make sure you want to delete each one before it will allow you to delete it.
You can't use folders to categorize your images, although this would be very useful.
So, as a tool for working with images, the iPad is useless. Completely useless. But for displaying photos, it's the best thing ever invented. If only we could get someone inside of Apple to unlock the potential of this product then we'd really have something. A real game changer.
Update: OK. I found this solution which allows me to delete multiple images from the iPad at a time:
From the Photos app, tap 'Albums'.
Tap on an Album with photos to select an Album.
In the upper right corner there's a arrow with a box around it. Touch that.
Now you can select all of the photos you want to delete.
Click Delete.
So, it still sucks that I have to touch each one (as opposed to deleting an entire Album, or drawing circle around 200 of them, etc), but it's way better than what I was doing before.
Posted by Rob Kiser on April 15, 2012 at 3:25 PM
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