{"id":1381,"date":"2014-10-02T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2014-10-02T01:56:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:56:47","slug":"will-apple-enable-iphone-camera-connection-kit-interop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/will-apple-enable-iphone-camera-connection-kit-interop\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Apple enable iPhone-Camera Connection Kit interop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve come a long way, baby:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2004: Epson P-2000:\u00a0$500, 1360 grams., 3.8\u201d screen, and 40GB HD.<\/li>\n<li>2014: Apple iPhone 6 Plus: $500*, 172 grams, 5.5\u201d screen, and 128GB HD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So wouldn\u2019t this be a brilliant tool for importing, triaging, and editing one\u2019s images on the go? Sadly, as John Gruber &amp; Rene Ritchie noted &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/6527137\">others confirm<\/a>, you evidently can\u2019t plug Apple\u2019s Camera Connection Kit into the iPhone. What a drag. Let\u2019s see whether this\u00a0changes.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I remain in sad amazement that 4.5 years after the iPad made tablets mainstream, no one\u2014not Apple, not Adobe, not Google\u2014has, to the best of my knowledge, implemented a way to let photographers to do what they <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/06\/of_lightroom_ipads_and_muffins.html\">beat me over the head for years<\/a> requesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let me leave my computer at home &amp; carry just my tablet** &amp; camera<\/li>\n<li>Let me import my raw files (ideally converted to <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/heresy-should-i-just-wholesale-blow-away-my-raw-files\/\">vastly smaller DNGs<\/a>), swipe through them to mark good\/bad\/meh, and\u00a0non-destructively edit them, singly or in batches, with full raw quality.<\/li>\n<li>When I get home, automatically sync all images + edits to\/via the cloud and let me keep editing there or on my Mac\/PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This remains a bizarre failure of our industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Subsidized, but it\u2019s a super fast little computer supporting myriad editing apps &amp; high-speed connectivity, for God\u2019s sake!<br \/>** Or now Big-Ass Phone\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve come a long way, baby: 2004: Epson P-2000:\u00a0$500, 1360 grams., 3.8\u201d screen, and 40GB HD. 2014: Apple iPhone 6 Plus: $500*, 172 grams, 5.5\u201d screen, and 128GB HD. So wouldn\u2019t this be a brilliant tool for importing, triaging, and editing one\u2019s images on the go? Sadly, as John Gruber &amp; Rene Ritchie noted &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}