Backing up RAW on Ipad

[brie182]

I was wondering if there is any way to back up my SD card onto my ipad. I am nervous that I am going to loose one of the cards or something is going to go wrong with one. I don't want to loose the pictures. I don't need to edit them or even look at them. I really just want to make sure that they are backed up.

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

I'm not an Ipad guy, but my first question would be how much memory does you Ipad have? The DW's (I think) has 16gb. We use 16gb cards in our cameras (4), so after a shoot, many times we have much more than 16gb's to download. My laptop has 1Tb and my external drives range from one to three TB's.

 

[SkaGoat]

Pretty sure the Camera connection kit, with the newest version of iPhoto for iOS will do exactly what you need.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A/apple-ipad-camera-connection-kit?fnode=3a

or

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader?fnode=3a

depending on whether your iPad has the Lightning connector, or the 30-pin dock connector.

 

[My2Girls66]

Yes, you can back up RAW and jpeg files to an iPad with the camera connector. I tried using my iPad as a back up, it worked fine. The only thing I found was to save space, my iPad is only 16GB, I went to upload to smugmug so I could delete them off the iPad and still have them backed up. The ipad renamed all the photos to the same name and striped out the exif data. I ended up dragging along my laptop the next time.