I currently use LrC (classic) for my cataloging and PP on the Mac Studio at home and a separate catalog on the laptop on the road with export/import back at home but am looking to see if there’s a way to get a lighter laptop bag while traveling.
I know that several here use their iPad along with a hub, SSD, and card reader to backup images…and import anything they want to edit and post on the road to Photos or LR mobile…and I’m considering that as an alternative.
I’ve looked at a bunch of videos forom people advocating entirely to the mobile platform for LR but am not interested in doing that yet…the mobile version still has missing features compared to Classic and despite various YouTube personalities and Adobe telling me that their cloud serves as my backup it’s not really a good enough backup for an old IT guy…I want one that I control and even if I trusted Adobe to manage them it would cost a lot to backup my entire photo library.
So…I’m wondering if anybody has found an easy, simple way to combine the mobile and classic versions…I've found a few kludges but nothing straight forward that allows import into the mobile version on the iPad on the road and then an easy copy back to the folder based structure on the RAID back at home and thence into my existing backup schemes. The ones I’ve found require a whole bunch of setup changes on the iPad between sync and non sync depending on which step you’re at in the process and still requires enough iPad space to hold all the original images and they build up pretty quickly at 50MB per shot, 20FPS bursts, and lots of opportunities on photo oriented trips.
I’ve even considered taking my wife’s M1 MBA instead of my M1 MBP…but that doesn’t really save much weight so haven’t seriously considered that option...and we (well, me as I have the laptop bag when traveling) are going to carry 2 iPads and the laptop.
I know that several here use their iPad along with a hub, SSD, and card reader to backup images…and import anything they want to edit and post on the road to Photos or LR mobile…and I’m considering that as an alternative.
I’ve looked at a bunch of videos forom people advocating entirely to the mobile platform for LR but am not interested in doing that yet…the mobile version still has missing features compared to Classic and despite various YouTube personalities and Adobe telling me that their cloud serves as my backup it’s not really a good enough backup for an old IT guy…I want one that I control and even if I trusted Adobe to manage them it would cost a lot to backup my entire photo library.
So…I’m wondering if anybody has found an easy, simple way to combine the mobile and classic versions…I've found a few kludges but nothing straight forward that allows import into the mobile version on the iPad on the road and then an easy copy back to the folder based structure on the RAID back at home and thence into my existing backup schemes. The ones I’ve found require a whole bunch of setup changes on the iPad between sync and non sync depending on which step you’re at in the process and still requires enough iPad space to hold all the original images and they build up pretty quickly at 50MB per shot, 20FPS bursts, and lots of opportunities on photo oriented trips.
I’ve even considered taking my wife’s M1 MBA instead of my M1 MBP…but that doesn’t really save much weight so haven’t seriously considered that option...and we (well, me as I have the laptop bag when traveling) are going to carry 2 iPads and the laptop.