Good Tablet for travel
Jun 2, 2013 19:52:13 #
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
Jun 2, 2013 20:06:45 #
The iPad. I use it on trips as you describe. Just buy the cable and/ or card adpters ($29 for both).
Jun 2, 2013 20:29:27 #
squeek wrote:
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
Squeek , Microsoft's Windows Surface Pro, Windows 8 operating system, has usb ports, Its a true laptop so you can use it for MS Word and Excel and basic photo editing. I have a friend that just bought one for college and sold her IPad 3. She loves it.
Jun 2, 2013 20:51:50 #
Jun 2, 2013 21:01:21 #
squeek wrote:
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
The ipad does it easily and there are user friendly photo editing apps available such as Snapseed and Photogene that are inexpensive like the cables LPigott mentioned above.
Pierre
Jun 3, 2013 06:57:54 #
Mirasolman
Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
The Nexto DI is a small external hard drive that can backup up to 750 Gig
There are many models and they are expensive, but they solve the No Computer problem when traveling. Go to B&H Photo Web site:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=nexto+di&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=
They come with Hard Drives or solid state drives.
Good Luck
There are many models and they are expensive, but they solve the No Computer problem when traveling. Go to B&H Photo Web site:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=nexto+di&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=
They come with Hard Drives or solid state drives.
Good Luck
Jun 3, 2013 07:27:41 #
squeek wrote:
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
I use the EEpad Android system with either the optional KB or USB adaptor with an external HD
The reason that I use the HD is that just one of my CF cards is bigger than the Pad's memory, and when I get home all I have to do is plug the HD into my editing computer.
Jun 3, 2013 10:29:51 #
Jun 3, 2013 10:45:17 #
squeek wrote:
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
I also have iPad and it works well. Even for my wife's point and shoot Canon.
John
Jun 3, 2013 13:10:41 #
squeek wrote:
My laptop is kind of heavy to carry on trips. I like to be able to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer every evening. Can anyone tell me if there is a tablet that you can buy that you can use to transfer photos from the camera? Squeek
The top rated and most durable tablets other than iPad are Samsung. Apple has even sued Samsung for being so similar on tablets, players, and phones. I just ordered a factory refurbished Samsung media player for my son which is virtually identical to an refurbished iPod Touch 4 except it's a fraction of the cost - and you can get your media from anywhere you want rather than being eternally damned to iTunes as your source.
Tablets have a very limited storage capacity so they're not actually ideal for what you want to do unless you have other reasons to have a tablet. You didn't say what your laptop weights but there's a new Google Chrome laptop (by Asus) for $259 and I believe it has a 320GB hard drive while only being about 1" thick and very lightweight.
Jun 3, 2013 13:31:24 #
Also if you are running Canon Camera there is a DSLR controller AP that will allow you to control the camera from the tablet and do 20 plus levels of HDR and or Stacking for Macro and Landscapes
It is called DSLR Controller
It is called DSLR Controller
Jun 3, 2013 16:20:18 #
Before buying any tablet, how much space will you need, when I am on a photo trip I shoot 32 gig cards one raw one jpeg (tat will stop soon I never use the jpeg files). Anyway a tablets storage pace could get used up quickly on an extended photo trip
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