Photolab for iPad (pro)

I really support this!

When travelling, I usually leave my computer / laptop at home and just take my tablet computer with me.

Therefore a tablet verion of Photolab would be very useful. I could accept both, ipad or Android tablet.

Both platforms offer high performance tablets (e.g. Apple iPad Pro or Samsung Galaxy S series) which should have enough computing power to run PL.

I remain perplexed about this idea; I took a trip with a person who had a quality Nikon DSLR, an iPad, Lightroom and unlimited online access by his company.

He transferred his photos daily to his LR account, selected them, corrected them, and published them.

My perplexity comes from several points:

  • His lens always had a dirty lens, vaguely cleaned with the shirt, never protected from spray by a sunshade

  • The iPad screen is small and not bright enough to properly view the images in a car where you are shaken

  • The possibilities of correction with the finger (wet!) are limited.

Isn’t it better to wait until you are in good conditions to do the processing?

It seems to me that Nikon’s jpeg in camera are more directly usable than Sony’s, which are already presentable.

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Sometimes you need to do a basic postprocessing including application of lens corrections and denoising with selected pics where you cant’t wait until getting home.

It also seems that you are not really familiar with the capabilities of today’s iPads (Pencil, 11” or 13” screen, screen quality, …)

In addition: transferring the habits of this other person is also inappropriate.

Agreed. Both LR and CO work fine on my old, first gen iPad Pro and are of course noticeably faster on my iPadPro M5. They both have similar functionality to their desktop versions.