

Then you had to carry lots of dongles for the ipad too. This also gave me no redundancy and there is no way unless you buy two and at the time they were £400 each. I had to buy a hyperdrive to back up my images as I shot around 3tbs in the 6 months I was away.

I was using my 5DMKIII, shot raw to one card and small jpg to another to send to the ipad. This was 2014 so things were not quite where they are now. It caused all sorts of issues with expensive work arounds. I took an iPad mini 2 traveling half way across the world instead of my macbook airto save weight. The main pros are the touch screen and pen interface but getting images on and off are still a problem espeically when your not in your home environment. No storage options and unless you have constant data or wifi then using it is difficult. The problem with the iPad continues to be the drawback of the IOS. for a similar price,size and a proper OS.

I would take a 12" macbook over an iPad pro any day. The subject has been thoroughly discussed on DPReview. Is this just an attempt to sell iPads to people who will not be able to use them as they're used to or is there a working setup on somebody's iPad already? You also will need a file manager and an archiving app, My questions: How do you manage big databases on iPad? Is this a sign of something wrong with that product or maybe the people here are too busy doing what they like to do (making pictures) with the setup tha works for them? I did a search on this site about iPad Pro and it returned absolutely nothing. What would be the reasonable second best alternative? I would really like to leave the MBP home as it is heavy and bulky. There has been a lot of (sales promoting) talk about how the Ipad Pro -line is so magically powerful that you can leave your laptop home and do your on the road –processing with your new 12-inch iPad Pro and the ground-breaking new workhorse, Affinity Photo.
