While RAW processing on an iPad may sound like a "cool" thing to do, realistically it's one of the worst/craziest things you can do if you value image quality. An iPad is SLOW, with limited processing speed, and with a screen that you cannot calibrate.
Why people waste their time and money on such a gimmick....
Well, it's not for those photographs I'm delivering to my clients though! Just that I have a 3-week holiday to Scandinavia in May, and I want to bring the iPad there so I can transfer selected RAW files from camera, edit on the go and post on my Facebook page for my fans to view. And because it's a backpacking trip, the last thing I want to do is to lug a laptop along..
And because it's just leisure travel photos, I don't need the super accurate color I deliver to my clients. Ipad would suffice.
lobsterkia said:Roger that and very sorry to everyone for any disturbance caused , bandwidth wasted
behyx said:I've heard that PirRAWnha can do the task, but is it good? I'm looking for a good software which can gives me good and accurate color output like Lightroom or Capture One Pro.
Thanks!!
unfortunately, the profiling of the screen in this solution only works within the profiling software's own gallery program... it does not work like for regular computers, where the profile is applied so other software can make use of the profile... so the iPad's iOS operating system or any other program including any RAW converters or web browsers would not benefit from the profiling...Datacolor introduces color calibration app for iPad: Digital Photography Review
Can color calibrate ipad, but I don't know how effective is raw processing. Nor which software to use.
theRBK said:unfortunately, the profiling of the screen in this solution only works within the profiling software's own gallery program... it does not work like for regular computers, where the profile is applied so other software can make use of the profile... so the iPad's iOS operating system or any other program including any RAW converters or web browsers would not benefit from the profiling...
sorry for the slightly OT question:
how do you transfer the RAW files into the ipad?
Keeping within the purpose of this thread, I would like to share the following article
The Best Tablet Display: Guess Who?
It's a shame they never tested the Asus tablets with the IPS panels.
knight84 said:my understanding is that ipad imports files as down sized jpg not as full blow raw files. you may want to check up on that
SyncGuy said:Hmm... That I'm not sure coz imported RAW file is 12mp, after processing w/o cropping, it's ard 10-12mp still.... :/ So, is that considered downsizing? I dunno... Haha!
Atarandas said:Osx has built in raw readers. I have experimented to transfer my raws to iPad and use photoshop express or the new iPhoto app on iPad . I prefer iPhoto as it is much more intuitive to use.
After using it for a while , it is not recommended for serious editing as it's not up the cut yet . But if it's for posting on fb and viewing on the iPad . I think iPhoto can do the job pretty well.