I'll check this out. Be good to know what the sweet spot resolution is for the 100% zoom as then you could optimise images for that - if you needed the zoom in.
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iPad 3, Retina review for photographers
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I'm by no means a professional photographer, but I do have a prosumer DSLR (Nikon D300). The images I have on my iPad are ridiculous.
Thanks for this review and I agree with everything you said. It is amazing to show off your portfolio.
Thanks for this review and I agree with everything you said. It is amazing to show off your portfolio.
One of the main reasons I got my self an iPad 3. A nice big 64GB in black. It's great to hear a photographers take. When I transfer a full-size photo to an iPad 2, the iPad doesn't zoom in all the way. Is there any noticeable difference in on-device zoom? It doesn't matter all that much, just more of a nagging question. But I'll soon find out myself
That'll work. There's also Wireless Syncing with iTunes on all iOS Devices running iOS 5, given that your OS is capable (10.6.8 and up I think). But why bother when you can put your photos in Albums within iPhoto and just tell iTunes to sync iPhoto Albums. Simple way to have a portfolio on your iPad with categories.
The thing is, I don't really use iPhoto anymore. I hop between Lightroom and PhotoShop more than anything. I just wanna find solutions with like zero or almost no image compression if possible. Or the options with the least compression at least. Wait, just to make sure.. You're talking about iPhoto, on the Mac right?? iPhoto on iOS looks so sweet, but the megapixel limit kills it as a viable option with my 5D Mk ii. I really apologize if I'm thread jacking btw. That isn't my intention. Just figured I could get a quick answer with my best options available. Thanks all.
Besta Aperture Settings
Does anyone sync from their Aperture library? It used to be fine for the iPad 2 but with such a good display now the photos synced are too compressed so I'm trying to find out how to change that and what the optimum balance is between quality and file size.
Thanks
Does anyone sync from their Aperture library? It used to be fine for the iPad 2 but with such a good display now the photos synced are too compressed so I'm trying to find out how to change that and what the optimum balance is between quality and file size.
Thanks
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Is there a way to reduce photo/video quality before taking the shot? Especially for video, I don't want 1080p all the time.
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What size do you resize your photos for the ipad?
I created an export rule in Aperture with JPG and max size 2048x2048. That way the image fits perfectly in the display although no zooming. The only thing is that i don't think any sharpening is applied when exporting with Aperture, which is a shame.
How do you photographers optimise your photos for the new ipad?
I created an export rule in Aperture with JPG and max size 2048x2048. That way the image fits perfectly in the display although no zooming. The only thing is that i don't think any sharpening is applied when exporting with Aperture, which is a shame.
How do you photographers optimise your photos for the new ipad?
I have an action in Photoshop which resizes images to 2048 on the longest edge, then applies small borders tops and bottom (or left and right depending on if it's portrait or landscape) of the image to keep it's original aspect ratio. I'd only do 2048 x 2048 on images to use for the home screen etc.
I apply sharpening before I save the resized image.
Thanks for your review. It's a great review which I really enjoy reading. I also like your photos, they're great!
I have some questions if you don't mind answering. What file format do you use for displaying your photos? I assume you don't use raw?
Also, what is the name of the great portfolio app you mention? I know you are planning to do a review of that sometime soon but I am still interested to know which one you use.
Thanks.
I have some questions if you don't mind answering. What file format do you use for displaying your photos? I assume you don't use raw?
Also, what is the name of the great portfolio app you mention? I know you are planning to do a review of that sometime soon but I am still interested to know which one you use.
Thanks.
You mean adding black borders? Is that necessary? I think the ipad takes care of this and adds black borders when displaying the photos, keeping the aspect ratio. Why would you need to do this?
Awesome review. I think a lot of photographers should start using iPad kind of like a portable lightroom. I posted a links below for calibration purposes of the iPad screen so you can get the best possible results when viewing photos. The first is the Spyder Gallery app which is free and will calibrate your iPad colors. The second is a LCD test so you can see if there are issues with the LCD on your iPad.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spydergallery/id432310625?mt=8
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spydergallery/id432310625?mt=8
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
Many thanks. I use jpegs for iPad viewing. The app is called Foliobook
AppreciatedWow, best review to date.
Also subscribed to your blog. Great way to gain additional readers
If you don't add border to make the image the exact size of the screen, the iPad will zoom them in slightly to fill the screen, which cuts part of the image off - actually, I say that because that's what happens on my iPhone, but I haven't checked on the iPad I just assumed. I'll look in to that.
I thought they might be
Thank you!Great review! Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for the links
Hmm, I resized the files to 2048 on the longest side, which means 1365 on the shortest side if your pics are in 3:2 format.
I don't know why the iPad should zoom the image to make it fit, just place it in the middle (vertically) and let the full 2048 span side to side. And fill the remaining 100 pixels or so on top and bottom with black.
I don't use iPhoto either. I use Lightroom then export final images to iPhoto for transfer to my iOS devices. I'm able to manage my entire photo portfolio from iPhoto and maintain WiFi sync.
A good online photo storage/transfer service, like Dropbox, will not compress your photos. Facebook does, but they aren't anything like Dropbox. If you have your own website, you could upload photos via FTP to that, then download them from an FTP app on your devices, if you want to ensure top quality but Dropbox is a much simple and uncompressed solution.
I'm interested in iPhoto for its just like you, but the megapixel cap is very limiting indeed. I can't wait for a superb editing app for iPad; I thought Snapseed would work but it pales in comparison to Lightroom.
Nice, and the off screen owl pics are some of the better comparison ones I've seen.
This is why ultimately I have no regrets at all about spending quite a bit to upgrade. From a purely casual use its nice but I probably would have been better holding off. But as someone who does some photography/graphic art its too impressive as a portfolio to give up, and its a better reference point to examine colors/contrast than my aging monitor I need to replace sometime.
This is why ultimately I have no regrets at all about spending quite a bit to upgrade. From a purely casual use its nice but I probably would have been better holding off. But as someone who does some photography/graphic art its too impressive as a portfolio to give up, and its a better reference point to examine colors/contrast than my aging monitor I need to replace sometime.
I'll have a look. But I have several images on my iphone where the image is larger than the screen and it zooms in so as to fit the image to screen.
Thank you
Many thanks. I think the best way to show the difference is at high magnification on an image with good detail! Everyone I've shown the close up of the eyes to has been amazed at the difference!
Hey folks, so my iPad arrived this morning and I've spent the day being blown away by the screen and how incredible images viewed on it are. So, I've put together a little review of the screen from a photographers point of view and for photographers. It includes some side by side pixel level examples of the iPad 2 screen compared to the iPad 3 (again with photographers in mind).
Retina review
Enjoy
Fantastic review! thanks for putting in the effort to write this. It is VERY informative!
Great review! I'll add, though, that as a professional display the iPad 3 is useless. Believe me, I don't use that word lightly. But having seen multiple units, they all have a different white level, and varying amount of color cast to seemingly random areas of the screen. Some are yellow, some are pink, some are blue. The different between units is nothing short of staggering.
That said, in terms of resolution, the iPad 3 is just fantastic. There's nothing quite like it. Now if only Apple could get their quality control in check...
That said, in terms of resolution, the iPad 3 is just fantastic. There's nothing quite like it. Now if only Apple could get their quality control in check...
Hey folks, so my iPad arrived this morning and I've spent the day being blown away by the screen and how incredible images viewed on it are. So, I've put together a little review of the screen from a photographers point of view and for photographers. It includes some side by side pixel level examples of the iPad 2 screen compared to the iPad 3 (again with photographers in mind).
Retina review
Enjoy
Thanks! Excited to get mine so I can take a look at the screen and how my D7000 photos look on it.
OP, great job!
May I ask, what is your workflow getting photos to and from the iPad?
Do you use Aperture or Lightroom on your main computer?
How do you sync images?
Do you sometimes edit on the iPad (presumably in iPhoto) and have a way of getting the images back to your computer?
Thank.
May I ask, what is your workflow getting photos to and from the iPad?
Do you use Aperture or Lightroom on your main computer?
How do you sync images?
Do you sometimes edit on the iPad (presumably in iPhoto) and have a way of getting the images back to your computer?
Thank.