Tablet Recommendation

[Ballistics]

The wired tether sounds cool and all, but for people shooting the D800 in 14bit raw, there's no way that the Asus Transformer can handle the speed of a regular shoot. I'd need to see that to believe that.

 

[stevensondrive]

I like my iPad but find it fairly useless for photography other than putting pictures on it through an SD card adapter. Some apps are OK. You can't even use it as a remote view screen without expensive third party hardware or a computer close by. This was something I really wanted to use it for since Nikon hasn't seen fit to put articulating viewing screens other than one model DSLR. Maybe the next generation D7200 will have one.

I do not believe this is still the case. My new Canon 6D has built in wifi that can "synch" to my iPhone and transfer all photos. I believe I can do the same thing to an iPad. I haven't tried it yet. but that would be awesome for those wanting showing pics quickly.

 

[Rwsphotos]

The wired tether sounds cool and all, but for people shooting the D800 in 14bit raw, there's no way that the Asus Transformer can handle the speed of a regular shoot. I'd need to see that to believe that.

That I can't say don't have a D800. Works great with my D90. What works for me may not for some one else. Just like iPad doesn't work for me it does have its followers that sware by it. The options for tablets are as endless as the apple vs android debate comes down to personal preference.

 

[Danny_511]

I may be late but, I recommend the galaxy note 10.1. Photoshop, s-pen, hd display. Its what I use for editing and sharing when im on the go. Especially since I can just use a micro sd card with an adapter and throw my micro SD card in when I need to edit.

 

[McGrauniad]

One thing that may sway your decision is which device supports either USB (for a card reader) or maybe a direct slot for insertion of a card? I believe (my daughter has two iPads - the school gave her one) there are not many external interfaces on iPads. The screens are lovely, but they are rather a closed community. Androids like the Samsung has slots. A very nice screen is the Kindle HD, but again I don't for sure know if it has external capabilities.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

I haven't bought a tablet because I want to tether my cam to it. That being said:

The droid will do it but display inferior
Apple will not do it but display for showing pics rocks.

I'm holding out until the two worlds combine and I can tether it and us it instead of the tiny cam screen during real shoots, plus display rocks.

 

[jolieteddie]

Looked at the various tablets for use when traveling. Had been dragging around a netbook for a couple of years, and that was great for essentially unlimited back up, review, and even some minor editing, even RAW. Especially after switching to Micro 4/3 format, I wanted to slim down my packing.

Already have iPhone and a first gen iPad at work. Looked at the Android tablets, but didn't see/try any that really impressed me. Mostly I wanted something LIGHTWEIGHT and ideally that I could stow away in my camera bag. The full iPad was bigger than I wanted as was new Nexus 10, which seemed like a good candidate, too.

Settled on the iPad mini. Screen is fine for review of day's shots. Some editing capability if I want to generate some quick jpegs for emailing. But I do all my post processing after I get home anyway (Lightroom). Getting my RAW photos onto/off the iPad is a cinch and you don't need iTunes for any of that.* The camera kit or SD adapter both work just fine. Well built and nifty to use. The biggest capacity mini with 64GB was on sale and that gives me, at least, plenty of room for backups. Light as a feather, too. Slips right into the bag.

*in fact I've found that I rarely need to use iTunes for anything but backing up the mimi to my computer, ISO upgrades, etc. And then only since I am not using iCloud at all. And I can get just about any kind of document or file into/off the mimi via Dropbox.

 

[Ballistics]

I haven't bought a tablet because I want to tether my cam to it. That being said:

The droid will do it but display inferior
Apple will not do it but display for showing pics rocks.

I'm holding out until the two worlds combine and I can tether it and us it instead of the tiny cam screen during real shoots, plus display rocks.

I thought this was the case too... but I actually just tested it out.

If you want to view the photos immediately, you need to have the D800 connected to the iPad via USB via camera connection kit.

You take a photo and it comes up on the screen as a thumbnail. You hit import and then you can view it immediately. So, you can do an entire shoot,
hit import, and then view the photos immediately. Still playing with it, but I could actually make use of this in the studio.

 

[Greiver]

Nexus 10, cause you can connect it to some DSLR's and it has the best screen of any tablet available right now. Has pretty decent photo editing abilities too.

 

[JClishe]

I haven't bought a tablet because I want to tether my cam to it. That being said:

The droid will do it but display inferior
Apple will not do it but display for showing pics rocks.

I'm holding out until the two worlds combine and I can tether it and us it instead of the tiny cam screen during real shoots, plus display rocks.

Don't forget that Windows 8 tablets will. I've said it before...I have the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. It has a 10.1" screen, thinner than an iPad, lighter than an iPad, I get about 9 hours on battery, and is a full Windows 8 Pro device so you can install any software you want on it. Also, lots of photographers are migrating from the iPad to the Surface Pro so that's another valid option.