Hi All,
I have recently purchased an a6000 and would appreciate the groups help and opinions on what route I should take for my processing. I have a MacBook Pro (please don’t tell me to go the windows route) but it doesn’t have enough memory left on the hard drive so I could buy and install a larger ssd drive which would run ~ $500-$700 depending on what size I went with. Or I could buy an iPad Pro with enough memory and use that. I can download the raw files via wifi with the included Sony app ( does this cause any loss of data) or use an adapter that would load the files either directly from the camera or from the card. The new IPad would run $1000-$1200 again depending on memory size.
I haven’t decided yet on what software I would use but at this point I’m leaning towards either Lightroom or Photoshop. I have been reading a lot of the discussions on UHH about the various programs out there and their pros and cons and I’m welcome to further input on this but it is not really the original question.

Obviously it’s more expensive to buy the new IPad but I’m used to using one and with the new pencil it can do some pretty good detailed work. I have never used any post processing software that was more complicated than a few free apps I have tried that gives you a few basic overall adjustments like hue, saturation etc. For some reason I think with the IPad ‘s ability to easily zoom into a specific area and do touch ups or other things I think it would be easier to use. I might be entirely wrong about this so that’s why I’m asking. The money is not as important as getting the picture right. It’s like the question I read today asking about lens filters. You spent a lot of money on your lenses and your willing to sacrifice quality on filters by buying the cheap ones on eBay from China 😳. I just want to have the best and easiest to use setup for doing my post processing while I’m away from home. They both are equally portable and I can use a small 1 or 2 tb drive for storage of the images but which of the two options would give me the greater ease of work and outcome of results. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi All,
I have recently purchased an a6000 and would appreciate the groups help and opinions on what route I should take for my processing. I have a MacBook Pro (please don’t tell me to go the windows route) but it doesn’t have enough memory left on the hard drive so I could buy and install a larger ssd drive which would run ~ $500-$700 depending on what size I went with. Or I could buy an iPad Pro with enough memory and use that. I can download the raw files via wifi with the included Sony app ( does this cause any loss of data) or use an adapter that would load the files either directly from the camera or from the card. The new IPad would run $1000-$1200 again depending on memory size.
I haven’t decided yet on what software I would use but at this point I’m leaning towards either Lightroom or Photoshop. I have been reading a lot of the discussions on UHH about the various programs out there and their pros and cons and I’m welcome to further input on this but it is not really the original question.

Obviously it’s more expensive to buy the new IPad but I’m used to using one and with the new pencil it can do some pretty good detailed work. I have never used any post processing software that was more complicated than a few free apps I have tried that gives you a few basic overall adjustments like hue, saturation etc. For some reason I think with the IPad ‘s ability to easily zoom into a specific area and do touch ups or other things I think it would be easier to use. I might be entirely wrong about this so that’s why I’m asking. The money is not as important as getting the picture right. It’s like the question I read today asking about lens filters. You spent a lot of money on your lenses and your willing to sacrifice quality on filters by buying the cheap ones on eBay from China 😳. I just want to have the best and easiest to use setup for doing my post processing while I’m away from home. They both are equally portable and I can use a small 1 or 2 tb drive for storage of the images but which of the two options would give me the greater ease of work and outcome of results. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi All
Many very good suggestions which is why I keep coming here everyday. Just to update everyone here’s what I ended up doing. I went to a few retailers and found a Western Digital external hard drive 2TB for Mac that ran $79. It’s raining here so today I’m going to download all the music and photos from the MacBook Pro to free up some room. Then I think I’ll try the Sony software just because it’s native to my camera and free to try. I plan on downloading all my pictures to the new external drive and then pull them into the laptop to work on them and put the finished product back onto the external thus not clogging up my laptop again. I plan on keeping the original raw file back onto the external too for saving purposes and just in case I want to reprocess at a later date.

Thanks again for all your feedback and I’ll update everyone in a few months and let you know how it works and what if any issues I run into. I may eventually ask Santa for the iPad Pro 12 “ as they really have a great looking screen and the apps are getting better all the time but for now I spent a total of $82 and have plenty of room to work with. Thanks again everyone.