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Some Initial Thoughts on the iPad for Photographers

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Publish an eBook

The iPad is set to turn the publishing world upside down with the possibilty to publish and sell, books, magazines and all manner of content rich publications through iTunes.

Just think how iTunes has changed the distribution of music over the last few years, through the ubiquitous iPod, iTouch and more recently the iPhone.

The iPad could be the perfect platform to really allow for the selling and publishing of still images and / or moving images in a way that has not been achieved before. Multimedia content on a “tablet” device hasn’t  been widely available until now and if the iPad becomes as popular ( or more popular ) than the iPhone / iTouch there will be a whole new market opening up.

The big publishers are already on to this in a big way!…

Connect to a Camera

Apple are already selling an adaptor that allows the downloading of images straight from the camera or via SD camera cards.

I am sure that there will also be a whole host of third party add-ons that will expand on this facility.

Once connected it would make a very useful backup and display device.

Perhaps there will eventually be a ‘live view” type of utility with the iPad acting as a portable viewfinder, although there would most likely need to be some form of hood in bright sunshine to enhance the viewing conditions.

Display Your Portfolio

The battery on the iPad is claimed to be very good compared with the average laptop so what better device to display your photographs and images on.

The display is crystal clear and with the ability for  your viewers to hold it in their hands and flick through images or click on a slideshow or even play video presentations you have the perfect portable display device.

If you have an online portfolio via your own website or through one of the many photo and video sharing sites you can show that via a wi fi connection or through 3G if your iPad is equipped with it.

Here is an interesting link to a blog post by Greg A. Lato of Latoga Photography on the same subject. I agree with his view that the biggest plus of the iPad at this time is for the consumer of photography rather than as a photographic aid per se. Another very interesting post from Dave Beckerman….

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