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Subject: [Leica] Editing on an iPad (bus, or plus bus...)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:19:59 -0400

The word used was "editing".

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:56:05 +1200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Editing on an iPad (bus, or plus bus...)
> 
> I do know what I am doing thanks ;-)
> 
> Who ever said about deleting images? If you go back to the origins of this
> thread the request was about software to look at Leica DNG images (I 
> assume)
> and upload JPEGs (I assume) to the Internet when away from home and what
> software existed for an iPad to do that. We all know that there is plenty 
> of
> choice from different manufacturers for software for Mac/Windows
> netbooks/ultrabooks/laptops/desktops/servers but what can work on an iPad?
> 
> " The question is: if you were only going to have access to an iPad (in 
> this
> case, an iPad2) for a couple of weeks, expected to take a lot of pictures,
> and wanted to do some editing and uploading to the web, what would be your
> editing app or choice?  Snapseed?  iPhoto?  Revel?  "
> 
> If there is nothing then that is the end of the query, pointless saying 
> what
> else exists as I am sure they know that fully well.
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> If your asking me I'd say it looks like you've got the thing under control.
> I'm just talking about deleting a bunch of valid images while sitting at a
> sidewalk caf? zipping through the images on a  little hand held screen. A
> darned shame if you ask me.
> I'd do most of the editing where you can concentrate and have a better
> viewing experience. Certainly I've sat on the subway or bus and deleted 
> some
> images off a card by looking at them in the back of my camera. Zooming in 
> to
> see if they're soft. If there's any question I'd leave it on the card and
> wait till I can later see it better.
> Also when I'm going through them here I can delete the total bloopers but
> the important thing is to RATE them. One to five stars. The five starred
> ones with a yellow tag are the ones you'd see on my Lug gallery and maybe
> some other places. Even my 5x7 print box in my side bag.
> 
> My Friday flower I posted yesterday was a sleeper. Though I shot plenty of
> flowers in the past weeks none of them did much for me. I spent some real
> time assessing them last night. After a half hour of looking through all my
> 2012 keyworded "Flowers" shots I found the shot I ran which was shot in mid
> March at 6 AM. It only had 3 stars on it before! That I call a sleeper as
> I'm super happy about the way its looking on the LUG gallery right now etc.
> a shot which I didn't even know for five months was there.  17 people have
> seen it and its not been up more than 24 hours I call that pretty good.
> 
> A huge most valued part of ones photo work flo is taking the time to see
> what you've got. Rating and keywording them with a lot of consideration.
> 
> I'm betting that its not all that uncommon just like in the days of slides
> in  yellow boxes which get put in the closet; of people who can't be
> bothered with their output.
> Pictures are fun!
> Sure cameras are fun but pictures are funner.
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
>> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:12:20 +1200
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Editing on an iPad (bus, or plus bus...)
>> 
>> You were saying about Netbooks and I am saying that is no good for a
>> Mac user (although I do have a Dell 9 running OSX 10.6.2). You seem to
>> be jumping between email/web type stuff which an iPad can do to
>> laptops which are bigger/heavier but can do more. I have a 17" MacBook
>> Pro (as well as a
>> workstation) but would not dream of taking it on holiday with me. I
>> will be in Europe for 5 weeks in a couple of months, what is your
>> suggestion for coping with 10s GBs of photos I expect I will take? I
>> have +100Gb of SD cards, do you suggest that I buy more and keep them
>> until I get home? Not download them anywhere and I may find an issue,
>> or excessive dust on the sensor, or the cards have become corrupt
>> or..... For me that is single point of failure and I can keep them on
>> a card but also on my Air and an external drive. For a lesser time, or
>> travelling light, that is where an iPad came in as per the original query.
>> 
>> Goalposts seem to keep moving.....
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> You'd have a Mac Pro Quad core back in your dorm room with a
>> calibrated screen. Or maybe a full sized laptop hooked up to a nice
>> big screen; and that would be me. With two extra hard disks hooked up to
> it.
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> 
>>> And if you are a Mac user with $$$$ worth of pro-class
>>> Adobe/CaptureOne etc software?
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 
>>> Half the kids at Columbia and NYU appear to be using Acer's now at
>>> the starbucks and better coffee shops. Its really impressive to see
>>> those little laptops and know that it would be no problem to have
>>> them with you all day without making you have to carry a full back
>>> pack with like with a regular laptop. The keyboards are not so
>>> compact as to your not able to type out papers with them. And the
>>> screen seems to be
>> plenty clear enough.
>>> 
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>> 
>>>> I have the Acer Aspire One.   It's a tiny little thing but works great
>> for
>>>> travel.
>>>> 
>>>> Tina
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Akhil Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Tina,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which model do you have?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Akhil
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> 
>>>>> My tiny little Acer netbook can handle LR and PS.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tina
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:37 AM, John McMaster
>>>>> <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I really think that you are not understanding this. Nobody is
>>>>>> saying that the iPad will be their only computer, just it is
>>>>>> small/light for travelling with and is there software to allow
>>>>>> basic cataloguing/editing of Leica shots with it.... If using a
>>>>>> full blown laptop, I like others chose a Mac Air, then there is no
>> issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> john
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm talking about maybe our photography which we sweat about
>>>>>> buying exclusive Leica gear for is too important to be editing
>>>>>> with trendy hand held gadgets. Maybe we can put them down for a
>>>>>> few minutes and enjoy the scenery - talk the the person next to
>>>>>> us. And when we get back to your hotel/motel edit our photo's on a
>>>>>> laptop. On a screen where we can see our images.
>>>>>> I find the never ending search for more ways to spend even a
>>>>>> higher percentage of our waking hours than 80 percent at a tiny
>>>>>> hand held screen ridiculous. Perfect perhaps for the Sony point
>>>>>> and shoot list but for the Leica list I just want more.
>>>>>> Put the damn PDA down for a minute.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There seems to be a direct reverse correlation between how much
>>>>>> money people spend on a camera and how much time and effort and
>>>>>> money they want to spend dealing with their pictures later.
>>>>>> If this was the Linhof list we'd be talking about editing our
>>>>>> output on our decoder pinky rings.
>>>>>> Big camera small editing screen. It all balances out perhaps.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think we'd all be better off with cheaper cameras and a better
>>>>>> workflo with premium software to do it with.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you know what you are talking about?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> john
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You are missing my point. Why edit on an Ipad when you can do so
>>>>>>> with an IPhone?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You are missing the point, Mark. This discussion is about tools
>>>>>>>> for the
>>>>>>> iPad.
>>>>>>>> Lightroom is not available on that platform. Sometimes even a
>>>>>>>> laptop is too big and too heavy, for example next week when I
>>>>>>>> will be touring Jutland on bicycle for several days.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Nathan
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jul 21, 2012, at 6:13 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm always amazed after spending tens of thousands on the most
>>>>>>>>> exquisite glass and bodies from sunny Germany we can never find
>>>>>>>>> software cheap enough to edit them with.
>>>>>>>>> Aperture or Lightroom are already configured for people who's
>>>>>>>>> commitment to photographic wonderfulness is not exactly the issue.
>>>>>>>>> What are we looking for now shareware or freeware?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>>>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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