Best solution for uploading lots of pics from the road - iPad?

klinquistklinquist Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
edited August 19, 2010 in SmugMug Support
I've got an iPad and am looking for an easy way to upload an entire memory card full of pics to Smugmug. I've got the iPad camera connection kit which allows me to move the pics to the iPad, but the Smugmug app does not (yet?) allow uploading. Emailing high quality JPG or RAW isn't really possible. Are there any other apps available (or even technologies smaller than a netbook with 3G&wifi) that would do this for me? This is for motorcycle touring (perhaps I should also post this on advrider..).

Thanks!

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  • mbradymbrady Registered Users Posts: 321 Major grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    The existing SmugShot app allows for uploading. It is designed for iPhone though, but should still run on the iPad (although I haven't tried it yet, I'll try tonight if time permits). It's a free app so it shouldn't hurt to try.
  • klinquistklinquist Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    mbrady wrote: »
    The existing SmugShot app allows for uploading. It is designed for iPhone though, but should still run on the iPad (although I haven't tried it yet, I'll try tonight if time permits). It's a free app so it shouldn't hurt to try.

    Yeah, I've got it on the iphone and ipad - I should have mentioned that. SmugShot only lets you upload pictures one at a time.... and browsing through the pictures (assuming you want to upload the one at the bottom - most recent pics), takes quite awhile. Not really practical for uploading more than a few pictures at a time. It would be OK if it let me select a bunch then add them all to the queue.
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    If you're only considering iPad-based solutions, I can't really help you as I don't have or know much about the iPad.

    But, if you're asking a general question about the best way to upload while traveling, I'd suggest a netbook PC. You can get a Windows netbook at Fry's for as low as $269.99 and it can run lots of standard PC apps including all the various Windows uploaders. Since it's generic Windows, you don't need things like camera connection kits to access photos via USB stucks, USB readers or USB camera connections.
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  • klinquistklinquist Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    jfriend wrote: »
    If you're only considering iPad-based solutions, I can't really help you as I don't have or know much about the iPad.

    But, if you're asking a general question about the best way to upload while traveling, I'd suggest a netbook PC. You can get a Windows netbook at Fry's for as low as $269.99 and it can run lots of standard PC apps including all the various Windows uploaders. Since it's generic Windows, you don't need things like camera connection kits to access photos via USB stucks, USB readers or USB camera connections.

    Thanks.. Yeah, I've already got a Netbook. The iPad is simply <1/2 the weight, a cheaper 3G connection, better battery life, much thinner etc. It has the right hardware, I just need the right apps to complete the puzzle :).
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    klinquist wrote: »
    Thanks.. Yeah, I've already got a Netbook. The iPad is simply <1/2 the weight, a cheaper 3G connection, better battery life, much thinner etc. It has the right hardware, I just need the right apps to complete the puzzle :).
    Good luck with that. Hopefully you can find something.

    It's a restricted and specialized platform. You have lots fewer options than a platform where Apple doesn't have to approve everything a developer does.
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  • mbradymbrady Registered Users Posts: 321 Major grins
    edited August 17, 2010
    I tried SmugShot on the iPad and it does work but it doesn't send a full-size photo.
  • peestandinguppeestandingup Registered Users Posts: 489 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2010
    klinquist wrote: »
    I've got an iPad and am looking for an easy way to upload an entire memory card full of pics to Smugmug. I've got the iPad camera connection kit which allows me to move the pics to the iPad, but the Smugmug app does not (yet?) allow uploading. Emailing high quality JPG or RAW isn't really possible. Are there any other apps available (or even technologies smaller than a netbook with 3G&wifi) that would do this for me? This is for motorcycle touring (perhaps I should also post this on advrider..).
    Thats gonna be tuff until Smugmug makes it easier with their own app. I would say use the Pixelpipe app, as it lets you upload multiple original-quality files to damn near any media site out there (Smugmug included), but its still iPhone only at the moment.

    If this is really something you wanna do, you have 2 options. The first is to skip the SD card & just use your iPhone's camera to take the pics & upload them straight from there using Pixelpipe. If its the iPhone 4, thats not a bad idea since that camera is actually very decent.

    The second option is to get yourself an Eye-Fi SD card (Smugmug supports this) & upload the pics via WiFi. Where does the iPad come in? Well, you'd jailbreak your iPad so you can install an app that would turn it into a WiFi router, so it can share its 3G connection to your Eye-Fi card. The app you'd need for that is called MyWi. Note: You mentioned you have an iPhone too, so this method would work with it alone as well, thus skipping the iPad altogether.

    Notice that none of these methods would make use of the USB iPad camera connection kit it any way.
  • mbradymbrady Registered Users Posts: 321 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2010
    peestandingup wrote: »
    Thats gonna be tuff until Smugmug makes it easier with their own app. I would say use the Pixelpipe app, as it lets you upload multiple original-quality files to damn near any media site out there (Smugmug included), but its still iPhone only at the moment.

    The iPad can run iPhone apps so it should theoretically work there as well (although it won't fill up the full screen, but for just uploading that's probably not an issue). I'll give it a try when I get home tonight to make sure.
  • peestandinguppeestandingup Registered Users Posts: 489 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2010
    mbrady wrote: »
    The iPad can run iPhone apps so it should theoretically work there as well (although it won't fill up the full screen, but for just uploading that's probably not an issue). I'll give it a try when I get home tonight to make sure.
    I know, but there are some iPhone apps that wont install to the iPad during the iTunes syncing process. This is one of them.
  • mbradymbrady Registered Users Posts: 321 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2010
    peestandingup wrote: »
    I know, but there are some iPhone apps that wont install to the iPad during the iTunes syncing process. This is one of them.

    Hmmm you're right. It won't even come up in search results in the app store on the iPad. I haven't run across that before (although I haven't tried a whole lot of iPhone apps on the iPad).
  • peestandinguppeestandingup Registered Users Posts: 489 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2010
    mbrady wrote: »
    Hmmm you're right. It won't even come up in search results in the app store on the iPad. I haven't run across that before (although I haven't tried a whole lot of iPhone apps on the iPad).
    I think its sorta like the iMovie app for iPhone 4 not working on older devices or iPod Touches. Meaning it was written to take advantage of specific iPhone hardware (HD camera, front facing camera, etc) that the current iPad doesnt have, so it wont even transfer over.

    Now, if you wanna get hacky, there are ways to get apps like this on unapproved iDevices. You basically have to find the App file in your iTunes folder & edit some lines of code, then sync it over to a jailbroken device. People have done this with iMovie for iPhone. Im tempted to try this out on Pixelpipe just because, well, I like doing hacky stuff like this. I'd imagine it would work.
  • brecklundinbrecklundin Registered Users Posts: 121 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2010
    you better look into your MBB provider's bandwidth caps for upstream use...you are likely better off parking your rear end at Starbucks and using their free wifi or even many MickeyD's have free wifi now too.

    Of course I used to use a 3rd party ISP called Millenicom when I needed MBB and they had no caps, period...I paid about $50/month a few years back, it might be more now and I seem to recall they have a testy relationship with a couple MBB providers about they allowing uncapped user use.

    But the best option mentioned so far is a netbook, running any OS that lets you get connected. Rememeber, except in a nice shady spot, the IpAd is a loser outside in the sun as are almost all netbooks. Wait a few months when the new round of netbooks and slatePC's come out using the PixelQi multi-mode LCD panels come out. The even have a "reflective mode" so it's quite useable in the direct sunlight, not as good as EPD panels but still there are no commercially produced color epaper panels yet. Eink brand panels, and eink is a BRAND not a type of panel, are great in the sun but the devices are, well, just sufficent enough to read novels on at this time. But in the coming year we will see devices that make the IPaD look like the one-trick pony it is...and the trick is to get you to open your wallet until it bleeds and you spend more on it than a full on laptop, even from ApPLe.

    EDIT: D'oh. I missed ya already have the iPad and accessories...in that case bummer the app is not there just yet...but didn't Adobe just release a LR iPad app? I know it can be a viewer maybe it's an option for uploading files on the road? After that I don't know of anything on the market yet. BTW, even if the iPad is not my idea of a slatePC device, it may have finally lit a fire under the rear ends of PC makers in general...and with the Tegra and other low power CPU options these device are going to be huge as I mentioned. I have wanted a real SlatePC for over a decade now and all of them have been over priced and their OS's not as good as could be...though the Sahara 440D from TabletKiosk has about all the bells & whistles a person could want, even a selectable Wacom digitizer as well as, if I recall rightly, a multi-touch mode as well.
  • brecklundinbrecklundin Registered Users Posts: 121 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2010
    klinquist wrote: »
    I've got an iPad and am looking for an easy way to upload an entire memory card full of pics to Smugmug. I've got the iPad camera connection kit which allows me to move the pics to the iPad, but the Smugmug app does not (yet?) allow uploading. Emailing high quality JPG or RAW isn't really possible. Are there any other apps available (or even technologies smaller than a netbook with 3G&wifi) that would do this for me? This is for motorcycle touring (perhaps I should also post this on advrider..).

    Thanks!

    OK, the LR iPad app does not appear to be out yet, but there is a version of PS Express though I don't know if it exports or what file formats it handles:

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=2&oq=ipad+lightroom&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_enUS365US366&q=ipad+lightroom+app#q=ipad+lightroom+app&hl=en&tbo=1&rlz=1T4GUEA_enUS365US366&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ei=z_JsTLzROYLmsQO-o7SrCw&ved=0CAYQpwU&fp=b95d3718181bc67a

    There are a number of reviews so it might offer some hope...plus the app is FREE... :D
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