Jeff Carlson for Digital Photography Review:
With the release of every new tablet, photographers peer past their laptops and wonder: could this be the one that lightens my gear load without sacrificing performance? The appeal of a fast and light tablet is seductive, even if you’re not looking to completely replace a desktop or laptop, but tradeoffs have so far made it a difficult choice.
Apple’s latest iPad Pro models boast impressive hardware that’s making them competitive alternatives. Depending on what you need to do, though, the software still isn’t quite there yet. Partly that’s due to limitations imposed by Apple and iOS, but it’s also because third-party developers have only recently had the power to build the types of full-blown apps photographers expect.
That said, based on what’s been announced about the next versions of iOS (called iPadOS 13 for the tablets), the iPad Pro will become even more capable when it’s released in the fall. I haven’t run the iPadOS beta on the current iPad Pro because the software is still in development, so I won’t be evaluating any of those features in this article. However, I’ll reference them as needed to talk about some of the current limitations and what to expect later this year.
MacDailyNews Take: We think that with the arrival of iPadOS 13, iPad Pro will become a viable solution for photographers and for many others for whom the iPad platform’s software just wasn’t robust enough in previous versions.
While I love my iPhone for snapshots, it will NEVER replace a professional camera for a professional photographer
A professional photographer, as you characterize, can NEVER be a Master of Fine Art photography,
Surely they are not implying you use it as a replacement for your camera?
They are probably referring to how you can import photos directly from cameras and connect to external storage from the new iPad OS.
But it can probably do some computational photography tricks his or her pro cam can’t which can supplement a pro’s tool bag…..