How to review images on road trip?

Khrest · 27 May 2014 at 11:02

My 70D (+family!) is coming to California in July to tour the national parks. I want to travel fairly light and be able to pixel peep shots at the end of each day to check my technique and perhaps revisit some places where we will be overnighting, if the shot isn't perfect. There are 9 changes of accommodation is 17 nights so I don't want a big setup or a contrived one with lots of bits where I might forget something when packing.

I'm struggling a bit to find the best setup for backing up and reviewing the images.

laptop; too heavy. Wife has a Lenovo Yoga 12, but even that's too big and fragile for a backpack.
Ipad; too expensive plus reliant on wifi photo transfer which works at lower res. No SD slot.
Android; would need SD slot and suitable software.
HDMI out to TV screen at hotel; won't have TV screens in Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite.

Can anybody come up with a reasonably priced method where I can get the RAW files (or jpg, dont mind shooting +jpg if it's only way) off my SD cards and onto a large enough screen to pixel-peep them?

JBuk · 27 May 2014 at 11:11

I take my iPad2 and use an apple camera/sd card adaptor

I can import raw files but editing is very limited and pixel peeping isn't great as it doesn't seem to show all the detail?

It's good enough for me to look through the images on a bigger screen and upload to various sites

Only advice I can give is to pixel peep in camera and use the histogram , enjoy the holiday then sort everything when home

planty · 27 May 2014 at 11:42

If you have an android tablet/phone then I'd recommend an app called DSLR Controller: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller

I have a 700D which I tether to my android device using a USB on-the-go cable, but you should be able to connect the 70D over wifi as well. The app has loads of cool features, but it allows you to view the photos off the camera as well.

Phate · 27 May 2014 at 13:02

Don't pixel peep and just use the screen on the camera? That's what its designed for ultimately, to review your image. You should be able to tell if something is out of focus/needs work etc and where you can improve from just looking at the thing.