Photograph storage, iPad or laptop
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After buying a DSLR for the first time a few months ago I now have hundreds of photos on the memory card on it.
My current iPad is full and has no storage space, so I can't upload my camera pics to it, ideally I'd like to replace it with an iPad Pro with a lot more memory space. Been looking at the 128gb version in Argos. Given the fact the my current iPad is generally ok I'm kinda baulking at paying £750 for a new one simply so I can store my photos on it.
I don't own a laptop or desktop, cloud storage is no good because I want to be able to see my photos at any given time and show them to friends etc.
So question is would a laptop be a more suitable buy? I'd only really like to pay £300 or something for one as apart from the odd downloading of music I never really need one.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
My current iPad is full and has no storage space, so I can't upload my camera pics to it, ideally I'd like to replace it with an iPad Pro with a lot more memory space. Been looking at the 128gb version in Argos. Given the fact the my current iPad is generally ok I'm kinda baulking at paying £750 for a new one simply so I can store my photos on it.
I don't own a laptop or desktop, cloud storage is no good because I want to be able to see my photos at any given time and show them to friends etc.
So question is would a laptop be a more suitable buy? I'd only really like to pay £300 or something for one as apart from the odd downloading of music I never really need one.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Don't you edit your photos at all?
Storing only on an iPad is dodgy. Limited storage, even the expensive ones, and they can be dropped/stolen/etc.
You've painted yourself into a corner really.
If you don't value your images, it doesn't matter what you do, but as you were "baulking" at the thought of spending big money on an iPad, why not spend less, but more than £300, on a lappy? You should be able to get one that lets you edit properly and makes storing on external HDDs, DVDs etc much easier.
Storing only on an iPad is dodgy. Limited storage, even the expensive ones, and they can be dropped/stolen/etc.
You've painted yourself into a corner really.
If you don't value your images, it doesn't matter what you do, but as you were "baulking" at the thought of spending big money on an iPad, why not spend less, but more than £300, on a lappy? You should be able to get one that lets you edit properly and makes storing on external HDDs, DVDs etc much easier.
No, I don’t really edit images, don’t know how to tbh. Perhaps it’s something I could get into though, can’t you do this on an iPad?
I’m not only storing them on an iPad. I have a Flickr account and an external hardrive but I need a go between (iPad/laptop) to go from the camera to Flickr etc.
The reason I don’t want to spend anymore than £300 on the laptop is at that price it wouldn’t bother me to much if I only used it for photos and music. If I spent £500 on one I’d feel it was a bit of a waste of money just to be lying there only doing twice a year music and some photos and I’d rather spend another £250 on an iPad which will get a lot more use, netflix/forums/Facebook etc.
I’m not only storing them on an iPad. I have a Flickr account and an external hardrive but I need a go between (iPad/laptop) to go from the camera to Flickr etc.
The reason I don’t want to spend anymore than £300 on the laptop is at that price it wouldn’t bother me to much if I only used it for photos and music. If I spent £500 on one I’d feel it was a bit of a waste of money just to be lying there only doing twice a year music and some photos and I’d rather spend another £250 on an iPad which will get a lot more use, netflix/forums/Facebook etc.
Ok. If that's all you need a laptop for, I'd buy a used one for £100-150, others here can advise. A £300 laptop, new, will be a pile of junk very quickly. A widely bought Lenovo can be kept going, upgraded etc for years.
And, if you decide you'd like bigger/better/newer, you'd not be wasting anywhere near as much. Probably sell a Lenovo for what you bought it for!
And, if you decide you'd like bigger/better/newer, you'd not be wasting anywhere near as much. Probably sell a Lenovo for what you bought it for!
SimboRS said:
Ok I’m maybe missing something here but how does the camera get pictures to an external hard drive or cloud storage?
Get a laptop (this is excellent advice anyway) with a built in card reader. Take the card out of the camera and plug it into the laptop. Then transfer the pictures to an external hard drive plugged into the laptop via USB (plus keep copies on the laptop's own HDD).SimboRS said:
Can anyone recommend a half decent laptop that might be good for me to learn about photo editing for my budget or is that asking to much?
Can’t recommend laptop, but the prog you need is Lightroom. It’ll take less then an hour to get to know how to edit photos really well.SimboRS said:
Can anyone recommend a half decent laptop that might be good for me to learn about photo editing for my budget or is that asking to much?
I would suggest going on Amazon, search for Lenovo or Dell laptop and set £300 (or whatever) as your upper price. For editing, programs like Photoscape (free download) will get you started with all important dits such as cropping, cloning and adjusting light levels.Other free photo editing programs are available, choose one for which there are plenty of YouTube tutorials.
OP, have you considered using Flickr to store your photos (from laptop or iPad) ?
Massive storage at 1Tb.
For editing, as above Lightroom but you will have to pay a subscription or try ON1 Raw 2018 which is a one off purchase and is as easy to use as Lightroom for its basic editIng with th ability to go further if you enjoy it.
Try them first before making your decision.
Massive storage at 1Tb.
For editing, as above Lightroom but you will have to pay a subscription or try ON1 Raw 2018 which is a one off purchase and is as easy to use as Lightroom for its basic editIng with th ability to go further if you enjoy it.
Try them first before making your decision.
Ok gents my apologies I think Iv kinda made a pigs ear of explaining my issue.
I’m looking at the actual transferral of photos from the camera to storage. I can’t actually get the photos off the camera and into a cloud or onto an external drive because the method Iv been using is camera >iPad>Flickr. The iPad is now full so it can’t accept anymore photos for the tranferal procedure. Iv deleted everything that can be deleted but it will still only allow me to upload about 30 photos at a time.
It’s not the actual storage that’s the issue it’s getting them off the camera and into storage
I’m looking at the actual transferral of photos from the camera to storage. I can’t actually get the photos off the camera and into a cloud or onto an external drive because the method Iv been using is camera >iPad>Flickr. The iPad is now full so it can’t accept anymore photos for the tranferal procedure. Iv deleted everything that can be deleted but it will still only allow me to upload about 30 photos at a time.
It’s not the actual storage that’s the issue it’s getting them off the camera and into storage
SimboRS said:
I’m looking at the actual transferral of photos from the camera to storage.
Get a laptop (this is excellent advice anyway) with a built in card reader. Take the card out of the camera and plug it into the laptop. Then transfer the pictures to an external hard drive plugged into the laptop via USB (plus keep copies on the laptop's own HDD).singlecoil said:
SimboRS said:
I’m looking at the actual transferral of photos from the camera to storage.
Get a laptop (this is excellent advice anyway) with a built in card reader. Take the card out of the camera and plug it into the laptop. Then transfer the pictures to an external hard drive plugged into the laptop via USB (plus keep copies on the laptop's own HDD).If you don't want to go to the expense of buying a laptop then I believe you can purchase an external HDD with a built-in card reader, I seem to remember a thread on here containing this info but can't find it at the moment - only drawback to this method is if the HDD goes down (and they do occasionally fail) then so does all your work which is never good!
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