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My top iPad photo apps

By Sharon Machlis

Although the iPad 2 cameras are a major disappointment in terms of image quality, my iPad still is finding a place in my photography workflow -- especially when I'm away from home for several days. It's not only a gorgeous way to display and share photos right after taking them; but unlike your average digital photo frame, there are sophisticated, easy-to-use apps that let you edit a photo in less than a minute.

The first order of business is getting photos from camera to tablet. The iPad comes with neither an SD card reader nor USB connection, but there are a number of other ways to move images onto the device.

At home, I usually transfer them first to my desktop PC and then move those I want on the tablet via an iTunes sync (another option is the third-party cloud service Dropbox ). However, that's typically for when I'm going to visit someone and want to share older pictures I've already processed. What about when shooting without a desktop, laptop or netbook nearby?

I zeroed in on two ways of downloading photos directly from my camera to the iPad.

When I've taken just a few photos and don't need to have them on the iPad as soon as possible, the Eye-Fi wireless SD card can be a convenient choice.

Eye-Fi has long offered automatic photo uploads from the in-camera SD card via known wireless networks. Recently, Eye-Fi cards added a "direct mode" that transmits straight to an iOS or Android device even when there's no available wireless (or 3G).

Drawbacks? Wireless transfer can be slow, initial direct mode setup isn't trivial and the camera battery drains faster when powering file transfers along with other tasks. Still, this is an especially useful choice if you tend to leave your photos in-camera for days or weeks before getting around to uploading or sharing them (Eye-Fi cards can also automatically upload to a Web service of your choice, such as Facebook, Flickr, Google's Picasa, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly or SmugMug -- either all photos on the card or just those you've marked in-camera). And even if the Eye-Fi card is rarely more efficient that a card reader; when it works, it's more enjoyably geeky to see my images transfer themselves wirelessly than fumbling around with cords or card readers.

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