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I'm writing some blog posts on android for photographers, just wanted to drop the ball and say that "Photo mate professional" supports the Epson RD1 raw files...it's not full size but at least it's supported. You can view histogram and exif. Hope you find this useful
 
Thanks Boris for the encouragement!

Meanwhile I found this Google tablet that runs on android and has an SD card reader and this USB card reader for Android phones.

So quite possible to download to backup and review RAW files from the RD-1 without lugging around a laptop. That's good news.
 
Look at the screen resolution of that tablet, almost useless. Plus weak processor. You're setting yourself up for frustration.

Take the files home and edit them on a proper computer.
 
lowep said:
So how do you get the raw files from the camera to the phone?
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The R-D1 preceded SDHC by years, so it can use no Wifi SDHC cards - and the first generation Eye-Fi, which still was SD, is no real option today (even if it should support the R-D1 regarding power requirements) given its lack of direct connectivity and requirement of a insecure WLAN.

So you'll have to read the card outside the camera - but there is no Android phone with a built-in full size SD slot (nor any way to adapt a card big-into-small inside the usually battery bay internal MicroSD slots).

Easy and universally compatible across phones would be battery driven Wifi media servers with a SDHC slot or USB port, like some of the AirStash or Cloudftp devices - but these are not exactly cheap.

Apart from that, you could use an external reader hooked up through USB OTG - on the very few phones that support the latter. Only Sony has OTG support across most of its smartphones, other makers mostly only have it on a few of the now or once top price models.

There is more choice among OTG capable tablets. But even there you can still run into issues as the OTG support in the system software often is partial (e.g. limited to 3G sticks or audio docking stations) so that you may need extra software to supply the missing drivers. Best bet so far is the Nexus 7, for which software for the very purpose of accessing camera cards exists (Nexus Media Importer), but other tablets or phones (with OTG hardware support) unsupported by the above could get at the card filesystem through Total Commander (with USB plugin), and at the file contents with one of the raw capable photo viewers/editors, or with Raw Decoder.
 
Boris Stupak said:
Look at the screen resolution of that tablet, almost useless. Plus weak processor. You're setting yourself up for frustration.

Take the files home and edit them on a proper computer.
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I agree that that particular tablet has few applications beyond nostalgia for early Android devices. More modern tablets do have screen resolutions that do very well for previews, though - plus enough processing power...
 
lowep said:
Same could be said about Epson R-D1, right?
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I don't really believe in the technical obsolescence of 6MP cameras, the maximum print size from them exceeds most requirements. That people think a ten year old professional camera is more obsolete than a current smartphone camera with worse specs is a good example of mass psychology at work. A tablet with single core processor and a display with 800*600 or worse resolution on the other hand was not fit or intended for raw image editing even when that thing was new.
 
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