Camera to tablet (Page 2): If you shoot raw, then it wouldn't be practical to use a tablet since they con't have much more RAM than a tablet. But if you shoot jpg' then you should have...

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

tita1948 wrote:

I am going on a trip to Italy and I want to lighten up my load. I don't want to take my lap top. Can I get my pictures from my camera onto a tablet? And which tablet? And how?

Please any suggestion would help. I want to purchase a tablet during the crazy sales of holiday shopping.

As always thanks.

If you shoot raw, then it wouldn't be practical to use a tablet since they con't have much more RAM than a tablet. But if you shoot jpg' then you should have plenty of room for your images. I use a Samsung 10.1 Note and an Eye-Fi card because it transfers the images wirelessly. Just turn on the tablet, start the Eye-fi app, insert Eye-fi card in your camera in place of the standard SD card and give it a moment to start communicating with the tablet. When you take an image, it takes but a few seconds for the transfer to occur.

Underwaterant

tita1948 wrote:

I am going on a trip to Italy and I want to lighten up my load. I don't want to take my lap top. Can I get my pictures from my camera onto a tablet? And which tablet? And how?

Please any suggestion would help. I want to purchase a tablet during the crazy sales of holiday shopping.

As always thanks.

I used a samsung slate pc/win7/SSD/
10" screen/2x USB/pen touch screen and
keyboard.
Very good.
Always store photos, et cetera on
an ext. hard drive.
Better tablets these days.

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

TonyP wrote:

G'day Bunko. Are you taking RAW plus jpeg? It save... (show quote)

I don't take raw with my little compact Sony, as far as I know but you may have cracked why I get 2 sets via the lightning/SD adaptor. May be it's designed that way?
I don't rely on my IPad for saving pics. Only for showing them to folks away from PC & larger than camera screen.
Save my cards as backup.
Thank you for your comments. The only logical one I've heard. The Apple guy hadn't a clue.
Cheers, ET.

FL Streetrodder

I would definitely recommend the purchase of a Toshiba Thrive tablet as it has an SD card slot as well as a full size USB port and a mini-USB port. These features make it easy to download your photos and transfer them to a flash drive. This tablet is slightly thicker than some and a few ounces heavier, but to me these features were not an issue and were far outweighed by its compatibility with digital photography. Oh, it also has a full sized HDMI port.

Rbrylawski Loc: Tampa, FL

Bunko.T wrote:

I bought an IPad & an extra adaptor to take SD cards & allow pics down load into IPad. Works ok but it shows up as two sets of the same pics. Tried to delete one but it's both or none. Talked with Apple for about half an hour to reason it out but the guy had no idea. I haven't used it. Always plug it in to my PC.
But it can be done.

On iPad, when you download pictures via the Camera Connect Kit, you'll see the pictures in your Photostream and the Download folder. It's not taking up more space, but they serve different functions.

If you store the pictures in a folder (which you can create simply on iPad), you can then delete them from Photostream, unless you are tied to another device, where you'd want someone else with the same Apple ID to be able to see the pictures. A duplicate of the photo will stay in the Download folder (unless you delete it), but again, you're not taking up additiona space on your iPad. It's actually quite nice. Keep what you want, delete what you don't.

LarJgrip Loc: The Fraser Valley

Rbrylawski wrote:

On iPad, when you download pictures via the Camera... (show quote)

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Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Rbrylawski wrote:

On iPad, when you download pictures via the Camera... (show quote)

Thanks Mr Alphabetski. I'll try that. Sounds like an explanation few folks know about, around me.
Seems like you're switched on to apples many idiosyncrasies.

photooobill Loc: Long Island NY

I hear you, you want to go light what I did is I got a samsung tab 3 & also picked up a eye-fi mobi card 16GB . Nothing else needed card come with free download to put into your tablet. Load it to tablet place card into camera (SD Card Only ) so your camera must take a SD card. Place in camera FORMAT it to camera and your all set photos from camera to tablet all in a blink of a eye. Enjoy & have a safe trip

Ersten Loc: Concord, CA

"I didn't ask where she was traveling, but I've found that most (if not all) hotels/motels will allow you computer access, so that you can hook up a tablet to transfer your photos."

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On my travels, some hotels that allow internet access have their hard drives hidden and not accessible to guests, so you cannot depend on hotels for downloading your photos to a portable drive.

I recently bought a Digital Foci Photo Safe II PST-251 500 GB Digital Picture Storage to use on my next trip. The dimensions are 4.6" x 3" x 0.8", so it is about the size of a passport-type portable hard drive. I will use it duplicate my photos and video, and keep the originals on the SD cards, which I will bring plenty of so I have no concerns of running out of storage.

Then, all I'll need is to bring a lightweight tablet for internet access.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I have a nice little Samsung 8" tablet. I see that there are a number of file transfer programs ("apps") available - some for free - that will allow me to download my photos to a 64GB card inserted in the tablet. If I run out of space while away from home I will have a 64GB thumb drive to transfer those to. This way I will have my photos in two separate places. I haven't done this yet but will report back to all once I have done it.

blackest Loc: Ireland

The eyefi option had me all excited but after a bit of background reading deflated.

The near ideal solution would be take a picture upload to tablet tag it with the gps position after all it shouldn't take long (even better sync the time stamps of the photo with the gps position of the tablet at the time the picture was taken) back up photo's on the tablet to picasa or similar when internet connectivity is available.

reality the mobi version only transfers the jpeg files not the raw gps service isn't its wifi locations using found wifi points to triangulate and thats on android and not ipad.

There may be other apps that will work with the cards but it looks like I don't want an eyefi card for xmas anymore.

Although it is quite a tidy option for doing the transfer between camera to tablet.
It seems a bit brain dead that the eyefi app can't use the freely available gps signal but then they charge for the wps service (first 12 months free).

EstherP

EstherP wrote:

"I didn't ask where she was traveling, but I've found that most (if not all) hotels/motels will allow you computer access, so that you can hook up a tablet to transfer your photos."

Ersten wrote:

On my travels, some hotels that allow internet access have their hard drives hidden and not accessible to guests, so you cannot depend on hotels for downloading your photos to a portable drive.

But you don't need the hard drive on the hotel computer.
Just plug in your card reader into one USB port, the tablet into another USB port, and use Explorer to copy/paste the images from the card to the tablet. You'll be bypassing the computer's hard drive.
EstherP

Ersten Loc: Concord, CA

EstherP wrote:

But you don't need the hard drive on the hotel computer.
Just plug in your card reader into one USB port, the tablet into another USB port, and use Explorer to copy/paste the images from the card to the tablet. You'll be bypassing the computer's hard drive.
EstherP

What I was referring to was that all you'd see at some hotels would be a monitor and keyboard. No other hardware in sight. I believe hotels are doing this more and more often so that guests cannot (either accidentally or intentionally) erase software in the hotel's computer, or introducing viruses to it, when using a USB connection. So therefore, there is no usb connection available to hook up a tablet to.

Rbrylawski Loc: Tampa, FL

Bunko.T wrote:

Thanks Mr Alphabetski. I'll try that. Sounds like an explanation few folks know about, around me.
Seems like you're switched on to apples many idiosyncrasies.

I probably shouldn't mention this, but if you go to Apple's iPad Support Forum, you'll see I'm one of the top contributors in the world. I don't know if that makes me anything other than stupid, as it takes lot's of time to be awarded help points from people who need help to get to the level I'm at.........

Ersten Loc: Concord, CA

Ersten wrote:

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I got it yesterday from Amazon ($149.95), and tonight uploaded jpeg and RAW photos, and video (.mov extension -- Canon's movie files), and after hooking it up to my computer via the provided USB, saw that all the files from the SD card were flawlessly copied. I gave this product five stars on Amazon.