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Subject: [Leica] Editing on an iPad (bus, or plus bus...)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:53:10 -0400

You'd have a Mac Pro Quad core back in your dorm room with a calibrated
screen. Or maybe a full sized laptop hooked up to a nice big screen; and
that would be me. With two extra hard disks hooked up to it.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:32:34 +1200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Editing on an iPad (bis, or plus bis...)
> 
> And if you are a Mac user with $$$$ worth of pro-class Adobe/CaptureOne etc
> software?
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Half the kids at Columbia and NYU appear to be using Acer's now at the
> starbucks and better coffee shops. Its really impressive to see those 
> little
> laptops and know that it would be no problem to have them with you all day
> without making you have to carry a full back pack with like with a regular
> laptop. The keyboards are not so compact as to your not able to type out
> papers with them. And the screen seems to be plenty clear enough.
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> I have the Acer Aspire One.   It's a tiny little thing but works great for
>> travel.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Akhil Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Tina,
>>> 
>>> Which model do you have?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Akhil
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 
>>> My tiny little Acer netbook can handle LR and PS.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:37 AM, John McMaster
>>> <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I really think that you are not understanding this. Nobody is saying
>>>> that the iPad will be their only computer, just it is small/light
>>>> for travelling with and is there software to allow basic
>>>> cataloguing/editing of Leica shots with it.... If using a full blown
>>>> laptop, I like others chose a Mac Air, then there is no issue.
>>>> 
>>>> john
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> 
>>>> I'm talking about maybe our photography which we sweat about buying
>>>> exclusive Leica gear for is too important to be editing with trendy
>>>> hand held gadgets. Maybe we can put them down for a few minutes and
>>>> enjoy the scenery - talk the the person next to us. And when we get
>>>> back to your hotel/motel edit our photo's on a laptop. On a screen
>>>> where we can see our images.
>>>> I find the never ending search for more ways to spend even a higher
>>>> percentage of our waking hours than 80 percent at a tiny hand held
>>>> screen ridiculous. Perfect perhaps for the Sony point and shoot list
>>>> but for the Leica list I just want more.
>>>> Put the damn PDA down for a minute.
>>>> 
>>>> There seems to be a direct reverse correlation between how much
>>>> money people spend on a camera and how much time and effort and
>>>> money they want to spend dealing with their pictures later.
>>>> If this was the Linhof list we'd be talking about editing our output
>>>> on our decoder pinky rings.
>>>> Big camera small editing screen. It all balances out perhaps.
>>>> 
>>>> I think we'd all be better off with cheaper cameras and a better
>>>> workflo with premium software to do it with.
>>>> 
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you know what you are talking about?
>>>>> 
>>>>> john
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> 
>>>>> You are missing my point. Why edit on an Ipad when you can do so
>>>>> with an IPhone?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You are missing the point, Mark. This discussion is about tools
>>>>>> for the
>>>>> iPad.
>>>>>> Lightroom is not available on that platform. Sometimes even a
>>>>>> laptop is too big and too heavy, for example next week when I will
>>>>>> be touring Jutland on bicycle for several days.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Nathan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 21, 2012, at 6:13 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm always amazed after spending tens of thousands on the most
>>>>>>> exquisite glass and bodies from sunny Germany we can never find
>>>>>>> software cheap enough to edit them with.
>>>>>>> Aperture or Lightroom are already configured for people who's
>>>>>>> commitment to photographic wonderfulness is not exactly the issue.
>>>>>>> What are we looking for now shareware or freeware?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>>> 
> 
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