Travel with the camera I love - but it has no screen

[571514m3]

This time I would like to take the camera I love and two lenses. Yes, the M-D without a screen. Kind of like going with a M3. But then it is 2023 and sometime I like to sit in a cafe and scroll through shots and delete what I don't like. This time I also take an iPad for navigation and could email a photo if I wanted.

Is it possible to use the SD card with a low key app on the iPad? To delete unwanted shots and email some if I feel like that? On my laptop I use a stand alone version of Lightroom 6. What would you suggest I use on the ipad.

And how best to read from SD card to iPad? You can see I am a bit of a Luddite and not very IT connected.

Thanks!

 

[agentlossing]

An SD card reader with the appropriate port would probably work well. I use a USB-C card reader on my Pixel phone.

 

[Gordon Moat]

This time I would like to take the camera I love and two lenses. Yes, the M-D without a screen. Kind of like going with a M3. But then it is 2023 and sometime I like to sit in a cafe and scroll through shots and delete what I don't like. This time I also take an iPad for navigation and could email a photo if I wanted.

Is it possible to use the SD card with a low key app on the iPad? To delete unwanted shots and email some if I feel like that? On my laptop I use a stand alone version of Lightroom 6. What would you suggest I use on the ipad.

And how best to read from SD card to iPad? You can see I am a bit of a Luddite and not very IT connected.

Thanks!

A few photo apps I have on my iPad Pro

Snapseed
Darkroom
Affinity Photo
Retouch
Pixelmator Photo

Of those, Snapseed has a ton of options, is easy to use, and best of all is free.

 

[bob_summers]

Another vote for Snapseed. I have Lightroom on my tablet too but usually default to Snapseed.
I don’t know how long it’d take to transfer a load of DNGs to your iPad. Mine is pretty slow! I have wanted an M-D since they came out but in the end bought a Pixii (M mount screenless RF) which at least can bring up low res previews on my phone using Bluetooth, to at least check I haven’t been shooting with the lens cap on 😉

 

[joe bosak]

I have a multi-port adapter which had an SD card reader, for my ipad pro. Bought from Amazon. Transfer is very fast. Need to be careful about plugging it in, seems easy to think it's not working when it just needs pushing fully home.

The importing is via the ipads "Photos" app. Photos I find a bit strange to use (like when I crop and then post the cropped image, usually the ipad posts the uncropped image....), so I also use Snapseed and sometimes Affinity. Affinity is not as easy to use as I expected but can do far more. Can lead you into the ipad file system which - for an old PC user - can be annoying.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

They have video for this adapter to show how it works with Apple mobile devices:
Amazon product ASIN B088CKDZCJ

We have bunch of iPads at home for years. This year I inherited parents Samsung tablet. It has build in card reader.
I also gave my iPhone to my wife and switched to robust Ulefone Armor. Those devices are not priced as fashion, cult accessories and they are more functional, convenient than typical Apple.

Also, I have traveled with film M until 2017 and lack of chimping never bothered me.

 

[Godfrey]

This time I would like to take the camera I love and two lenses. Yes, the M-D without a screen. Kind of like going with a M3. But then it is 2023 and sometime I like to sit in a cafe and scroll through shots and delete what I don't like. This time I also take an iPad for navigation and could email a photo if I wanted.

Is it possible to use the SD card with a low key app on the iPad? To delete unwanted shots and email some if I feel like that? On my laptop I use a stand alone version of Lightroom 6. What would you suggest I use on the ipad.

And how best to read from SD card to iPad? You can see I am a bit of a Luddite and not very IT connected.

Thanks!

Get an SD card reader. Apple's Photos, Affinity Photo, and Snapseed all work just fine on an iPad with Leica M-D .DNG raw files.

I never delete what's on an SD card until I get home and review on my desktop system. At the cost of fast 64G and 128G cards today, I just carry a spare or two. At most, I might review what's on the card and mark the dross (or the favorites) until I get home.

G

 

[Disappointed_Horse]

Sorry for the thread drift, but I have a question. Have you guys had any issues with opening RAW files with Snapseed? I have had problems opening RAW files taken with third party apps on my iPhone as well as NEF files from my Nikon D40 and D7000 (both of which are on the list of supported cameras for Snapseed). Problems as in the app completely locks up and has to be shut down.

I really like Snapseed, but it seems to be abandonware at this point as the last update for iOS was December 17, 2021. Then again, I just checked on Google Play and the Android version was updated earlier this month, so maybe there is hope.

 

[joe bosak]

switched to robust Ulefone Armor

We've moved to Ulefones too, robust indeed and huge batteries in some of them.

Have you guys had any issues with opening RAW files with Snapseed?

Nope, didn't know it could do that until today reading this, and it's opened a GXR RAW file fine. I've seen no issues with Affinity with RAW on the ipad either. But I guess RAWs are mostly proprietary formats so ymmv.

 

[Bingley]

Depending on what version of an iPad you have, Apple makes adapters (or card readers) that allow you to plug an SD card at one end of the adapter and then plug the adapter into the iPad. These adapters look like the one in Ko.Fe’s post above. Some have USB-C plug at one end; others have a lightning plug. Uploading the contents of the SD card to Camera Roll on the iPad is easy and relatively fast. On the iPad, I use the mobile version of Lightroom to edit photos. And once the photos have uploaded to Camera Roll on the iPad, it’s easy to email them if you’ve got a good WiFi connection. I shoot large JPEGs when I travel instead of RAW/DNG files, to save space on the iPad.

 

[Pál_K]

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The importing is via the ipads "Photos" app. Photos I find a bit strange to use (like when I crop and then post the cropped image, usually the ipad posts the uncropped image...

Apple. Gotta love ‘em, gotta hate ‘em. So, what they do is, at least on the iPhone, is keep the original image and any edits to it are saved in a separate associated file.

When you look at the image on your phone, it’ll always show you the edited result- but you can select “revert“ which will discard your edits and restore the original as the one you see.

But if you directly connect your iPhone to a PC, such as with USB, what you’ll see are the original (unedited) .jpeg images and those separate editing files. As far as I know, there is no app to apply those edits and give you your edited photo. Perhaps a Mac would treat this differently.

However, if you email an edited image from your phone, the recipient is supposed to get the edited version, not the original. That has been true in my case over the last three years.

What Apple really really really needs to do is allow another option after you have edited a photo: “make edits permanent“. That is, keep the edited version of the photo as the only version and discard the original.

 

[hap]

I am naive about these things. Can you save photos on iPad to backup cards?

 

[Bingley]

I am naive about these things. Can you save photos on iPad to backup cards?

Yes, you can. You may find it easier to store photos in “files” on an iPad instead of on iPad’s Camera Roll.

 

[Godfrey]

Sorry for the thread drift, but I have a question. Have you guys had any issues with opening RAW files with Snapseed? I have had problems opening RAW files taken with third party apps on my iPhone as well as NEF files from my Nikon D40 and D7000 (both of which are on the list of supported cameras for Snapseed). Problems as in the app completely locks up and has to be shut down.

I really like Snapseed, but it seems to be abandonware at this point as the last update for iOS was December 17, 2021. Then again, I just checked on Google Play and the Android version was updated earlier this month, so maybe there is hope.

Snapseed will not open M10-M or M10-R .DNG raw files, or Hasselblad .3fr raw files. I think the issue is simple: it cannot allocate enough RAM for such large raw files, even on my 2018 iPad Pro 11" (1T storage models like mine have 6G RAM rather than the smaller capacity models' 4G RAM), and chokes rather than fails gracefully. What Snapseed's current development status is I do not know, but it works well for even full resolution JPEGs made from M10-M and M10-R raw files with the current version. I use it quite often, and as long as it works, it's my favorite 'simple editing' app on the iPad/iPhone.

Affinity Photo has no problems accessing and rendering both M10-M and M10-R raw files. Nor does Photos.

And yes: the Apple Files app allows storage of image files both on the iDevices locally, on external storage devices, and on iCloud repositories.

G

 

[571514m3]

Thanks a lot!
I bought a lightning 4in1 adapter and it works fine. The only drawback is that the latest photos seem to be on the bottom and one has to wait for all the files on the card to load. That takes a while. Does not seem to have the option to have the latest files on top and then selecting the ones to copy to the ipad.
Otherwise perfect. And Snapseed is really neat. I do like everything NIC!