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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
@OtinG: Free app called RAW Power, free apps Snapseed (does RAW), Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix. A gadget which plugs into the lightning port and pulls photos off your SD card. If you're doing hundreds of photos a night, I get why you wouldnt bother, but for casual photography, the iPad is fine. File Browser for file management (and many others, that just happens to be the one I use). I dont edit in Photos, I use other apps which do a better job. Affinity, Pixelmator, Snapseed, PS Fix.
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Well don't get me wrong, I can process single RAW files on my iPad Pro 9.7", but the experience is slow, clunky, and kluge. I just fail to see the need when I can load them to my MacBook Pro, process them in a fraction of the time, and not have to jump through a set of kluge steps to get the files loaded, processed (and edited), then transferred to my storage drives. I don't use a cloud for security purposes and because that gets expensive. My workflow is just so much better on a computer. But single RAW file processing is a small part of what I do. I routinely take dozens or even hundreds of photos of the night sky then use complex apps (on a computer) that can take all of those RAW files and align them and stack them into a single image to lessen the noise level and increase the detail and dynamic range. That requires a huge amount of processing power that is quite frankly way beyond the design specs of any iPad. My MBP and my Mac Mini both have 16 GB RAM and they sometimes struggle with that kind of processing load. Plus I also find that for single photo processing, RAW or not, the workflow on a tablet is not as good nor efficient as it is with a computer. The iPad works okay to process a single photo, but the computer is still faster and easier by a long shot. I had hoped I could use my iPad more in my workflow, but with the current state of iOS and the current specs that was just a dream that might never come true in my particular case.