Is it possible to stop photos appearing in camera roll?

[FumbleDuck]

Hi all,

my wife and I take a fair number of photos on days out with the family using the same camera. However my wife looks after and processes all the family photos and I look after my "arty" ones.

The issue I have is that when it comes to downloading all the photos from the day to my ipad, I dont want the photos app taking the family photos and synching them with the cloud as there could be hundreds of those as they are processed/archived elsewhere (on another machine in Lightroom/windows).

What I am after is to be able to download all images to my ipad and then choose which ones I move to the camera roll and then I can move the family ones off to another machine over my local wifi without the ipad/icloud/photos/whatever knowing that they exist.

Anyone know if this kind of thing is possible?

cheers.

 

[Stuke00]

How are you downloading the photos to your iPad? That may help me understand your workflow to see if what you want can be done.

 

[FumbleDuck]

Hi,

I have a toshiba flashair SD card in my camera which presents its own wifi network when the camera is on. I connect to this from the ipad using the companion Toshiba App which lets me preview and download the images. I dont actually know where they get downloaded (new to iOS, spent years with Android) but I assume its somewhere within the Flashair apps' local storage which the Photos App can access.

I could download only the ones I want but then that would require two lots of manual filtering and connecting the camera to two different devices which I am not keen to do. I want the ipad to be the "hub" from which I assign photos out to other machines in the house - mainly because its so easy to crash on the couch and flip through each photo at high speed in good resolution.

I could potentially use my MBP and download to a separate folder before importing into Photos but I am trying to reduce the usage of the laptop in favour of the ipad.

Its not a particularly burning issue but it would be nice if I could find a solution.