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corkyg

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AFAIK, in order to do that, the tablet must have a means of connecting to digital images - that means a USB port or a SD/MicroSD slot. There are some. Google tablets with USB ports. They can also get imagery from the cloud.

Tablets are not really peripherals, and I will probably move this thread to Mobile Devices and Gadgets.
 
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I have a transformer, with keyboard, it has USB and (micro+)SD card slots.

Screen is beutiful, managment of images off a cameras memory card is a pain. any way to make this easy!?!
 
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Any of them will have some way to transfer photos to them.... I think the real key is getting one that will have a nice screen and perhaps some good apps to display the photos. iPad2 or Samsung will be your best bet if you can't find a Touchpad for cheap......

If you want even more portability, the Blackberry Playbook screen is nice, but the screen is smaller.
 
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iPads have no access ports unless you spring for the Bluetooth add-on. HP Touchpads are being given away right now. iPads only show photos taken with the iPad camera - and that's a loser for a photographer.
 
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corkyg said:
iPads have no access ports unless you spring for the Bluetooth add-on. HP Touchpads are being given away right now. iPads only show photos taken with the iPad camera - and that's a loser for a photographer.
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A photographer friend of mine told me Saturday that she displays photos on her iPad2 all the time for clients. I don't know what app she's using, but they CAN display photos taken with other cameras as long as you import the files to the device or have them on a webpage for viewing.
 
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corkyg said:
iPads have no access ports unless you spring for the Bluetooth add-on. HP Touchpads are being given away right now. iPads only show photos taken with the iPad camera - and that's a loser for a photographer.
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I'm sorry for calling this out, but this is absolutely not true.

The best photo viewer out of all the tablets that I have tried is the first-generation iPad. Coupled with the camera connection kit (USB + SD port), it can take photos off of pretty much any camera, and all it takes is a simple plug.

It has very decent RAW support built-in, and not to mention there are a host of image editing and photo manipulating apps for it.

Since it's fairly cheap, a 64GB one would also act as an excellent photo tank. The only drawback that I have seen is that with some cameras, it doesn't read EXIF properly and some tags would have to be reproduced
 
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Scarpozzi said:
A photographer friend of mine told me Saturday that she displays photos on her iPad2 all the time for clients. I don't know what app she's using, but they CAN display photos taken with other cameras as long as you import the files to the device or have them on a webpage for viewing.
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Yes, that's what I meant when I said "from the cloud." An iPad can download photos stored on the Internet - true - but not directly from an external camera.

IMHO, if you have to upload the pictures from the camera to a cloud site, then download them to an iPad - why bother unless that's all you have. For that matter, all photos stored in the cloud can be viewed on anything that has Internet access.

And yes - photos can be off loaded to an iPad using the camera kit connector which plugs into the iPad's docking plug.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

That is a decent Apple work around. Costs about another $25. :)
 
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corkyg said:
Yes, that's what I meant when I said "from the cloud." An iPad can download photos stored on the Internet - true - but not directly from an external camera.

IMHO, if you have to upload the pictures from the camera to a cloud site, then download them to an iPad - why bother unless that's all you have. For that matter, all photos stored in the cloud can be viewed on anything that has Internet access.

And yes - photos can be off loaded to an iPad using the camera kit connector which plugs into the iPad's docking plug.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

That is a decent Apple work around. Costs about another $25. :)
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I'm pretty sure the camera kit workaround got hosed and no longer works after iOS firmware version changed to 4.00+ early this year.
 
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I'm pretty sure the camera kit workaround got hosed and no longer works after iOS firmware version changed to 4.00+ early this year.
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Nope. Not true. It still works even up to 5.0 beta 6.

Edit: some "cameras" (read: phones) try to charge off of USB, so they may not work. But if you can enable storage-only or PictBridge, they'll work.

Alternatively, if you have a powered USB hub handy... (which is quite pointless given that you'd need some sort of external power for it), then pretty much anything, even phones, would work.

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Yes, that's what I meant when I said "from the cloud." An iPad can download photos stored on the Internet - true - but not directly from an external camera.

IMHO, if you have to upload the pictures from the camera to a cloud site, then download them to an iPad - why bother unless that's all you have. For that matter, all photos stored in the cloud can be viewed on anything that has Internet access.

And yes - photos can be off loaded to an iPad using the camera kit connector which plugs into the iPad's docking plug.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

That is a decent Apple work around. Costs about another $25. :)
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iPad can still download photos directly from a camera... unless the "camera" is a phone trying to pair via Bluetooth. In any case, USB port from CCK (camera connection kit) still works

And the CCK is not a workaround. It's a full USB port and a full SD card reader adapter. Both of them work only on the iPad.

Apple just purposefully tries to limit power draw from the USB port to minimize impact on the iPad battery life due to some devices trying to charge from the port, otherwise, it works with pretty much anything that has basic USB functionality such as keyboards (the musical instrument), MIDI controllers, and synth pads.

Also works for external USB drives and even hard drives when jailbroken.
 
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Guys, I thought the bulk of those 99 dollar TouchPad orders are actually being canceled?

But, so far as I know, any tablet can display photos, from any camera using standard formats, just fine. Any tablet that has internal storage can hold those pictures easily. Heck, the ultra cheap Chinese tablets can do that, but you'll have to look directly at the screen, at just the right angle and distance, to see the picture.
 
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Which tablets have a USB on it. Does the transformer have it on the screen portion? I would not be transferring [ loading ] from the camera. I would not be using RAW files.
 
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Which tablets have a USB on it. Does the transformer have it on the screen portion? I would not be transferring [ loading ] from the camera. I would not be using RAW files.
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The transformer has it on the dock. The Toshiba Thrive and Acer Iconia have full size ports, but the Thrive >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Iconia.
 
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