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June 28, 2010
iPad is disruptive to photography
The Apple iPad, meanwhile over 3 million units sold in a few months, is changing business. I am also convinced it is changing the way photographers will work.
Why? Because the iPad is intuitive to use, has a good battery life (approx 8-10h), a great display, enough connectivity, enough CPU, enough memory and we will see loads of applications and online services that are enhancing our work as photographers and also enabling us to do things we couldn't do before.
Some stuff I believe we will see - Some of it is already available:- Wireless preview of my shots, directly from the camera to the iPad
- Loads of camera controls at my finger tips - Setting up my intelligent flash groups from the iPad, controlling light from it and getting meter readings from my meter or camera. Factually the iPad replaces the camera's built-in controls and gives me much better working space
- Scouting locations, navigation to locations, ranking and reshuffling my public and private shooting locations, showing alternate locations, sharing locations in groups. Of course augmented reality views are supported as well, where I "look through the iPad" to see the locations
- Taking notes and annotations directly on the photographs - also while shooting, sharing notes and comments in classes/groups
- Automatic keywording, tagging images of faces that are automatically recognized based upon my online tag libraries or friends, all while the images are sent from the camera directly to the iPad
- Uploading selected images during the shoot
- Sharing images with a group of students while outside shooting - all students can digest the images of the whole group at once
Hurray for change!
Posted by bgs at June 28, 2010 10:27 AM