CamRanger Camerahardware device User Manual download pdf (Page 14)

Introduction

Photographers carry gear. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a pro with

multiple camera bodies and lenses or a casual shooter with an ever-present

point-and-shoot camera—there’s always stuff to pack along. And if you’re

traveling or away from your ofﬁce or studio, part of that gear typically

includes a laptop for reviewing and backing up the photos you take. Too

often I’ve heard friends who are about to go on vacation moan that they

need to bring a bulky computer just to handle their digital photos.

The iPad is changing all that.

It’s a fantastic device to take into the ﬁeld. The iPad Air measures less

than a quarter of an inch thick and weighs about 1 pound. The iPad mini

is the same thickness and only three-quarters of a pound. (The iPad 2 and

third- and fourth-generation iPads aren’t much thicker or heavier.) With the

addition of an inexpensive iPad camera adapter, you can import photos

directly from a camera or memory card and view them on the iPad’s high-

resolution Retina color screen, revealing details that the relatively puny

LCD on the back of your camera may obscure. More important, a rich array

of photography apps and related products is adding to the list of things

the iPad can do with those photos: rate and add keywords, perform color

adjustments, retouch blemishes, and share the results online.

Oh, and don’t forget everything else the iPad makes possible: browsing

the Web, accessing your email, reading ebooks, playing movies and music,

and, as they say, so much more.

Can You Really Leave the Laptop Behind?

Although the iPad can do a lot that you would have needed a laptop to

do just a few years ago, there are still some important limitations that you

should keep in mind when you decide whether a laptop stays at home.

If you’re generating a signiﬁcant amount of image data, storage becomes

a problem. As this book goes to press, the current highest-capacity iPad

holds 128 GB. You can free up some memory by removing apps, music,

videos, and the like, but if you’re ﬁlling multiple 16 GB or 32 GB cards

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