Is Aperture dictating workflow a bit too much? External format Q.

I'm beginning to wonder if Aperture is actually being too strict with our workflow methods. I use Aperture as an enthusiast rather than a pro, but it was worth the cost as it was the best RAW manager I could find.
Most of the time I manage to edit my photos in Aperture, but on occasion I do need to export to PhotoShop (I use Elements 4). I'm rather disappointed with the options for this though. It's OK working in a TIFF when I have RAW files as the master, but to force me to use a 16bit image is so presumptious. And to force that format when the original is an 8 bit JPEG is simply ludicrous.
I do realise that working in 16bit images is the best possible format for pro editing. However, you have to switch to 8 bit in order to apply some processes - filters for example. So surely a good workflow would be RAW to 16 bit TIFF, edit it as much as you need to, convert to 8 bit TIFF if required for further editing, and then save. By this time it should be a reasonable file size. But Aperture will not let you save an 8 bit image. I've been editing a few images in Elements, switching to 8 bit mode to apply filters, and then saving it. They still appear in Aperture as a huge TIFF file - typically a 45MB file from a 13MB RAW. An even worse ratio if the original was a JPG.
Of course this worflow should exist, but I really think there should be some more options for using an external editor - like being able to work in JPG format, or have the final image stored as an 8 bit TIFF. It'd just be nice to have the choice, that's all.
PowerMac G5 DP 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM, Formac Gallery, LG Flatron, soon to have an ATI 9600.
PowerMac G5 DP 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM, Formac Gallery, LG Flatron, soon to have an ATI 9600.

James,
the title of your question is saying "Aperture", but in the body you are asking about iPhoto libraries.
Have you previously worked with iPhoto and are considering to switch to Aperture?
Would it be possible to keep the "main" iPhoto library on the EHD - and then just import albums into it (from the MacBook) at regular intervals. For example, if I go away for a fortnight and come back with 14 new albums, can I merge these 14 albums with the iPhoto library stored on the EHD? I've read that Aperture can manage multiple libraries - but I'm not sure if it's designed to be used in this way...
Any help would be much appreciated!!!
Aperture and iPhoto now share a unified library format. If you are having the latest version of iPhoto and of Aperture, both applications can open and update each others libraries.
Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
If you have multiple iPhoto libraries, you can easily consolidate them into one library, that could reside on an external drive.
if you want to use Aperture while on the road, with the external drive disconnected, you could export a small, partial aperture library from your main library with the projects you are currently working on, an later merge this working set back into your main library. That is, what I am doing when on vacation, and I'm only taking my MacBook Pro with me.
Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries

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Photo file issues with iWeb and Aperture....also too much duplicating!!

A little background, before I get into my iWeb issue.....
Years ago I tried iPhoto, but I didn't like how it duplicated all my photo files and I wasn't very fond of the file structure it created. Years later (last month) I got Aperture. Aperture (still has a long way to go) also duplicates all your files and places them in their own file structure. If I can get along with Aperture (and if it will get along with my other programs), I won't mind putting all my files into the file structure it creates. But for now, I still have my original files in the original file structure I have had for many years as a back up.
On to my issue with iWeb and Aperture....
To add photos to iWeb, you can either go into the iWeb media center or you can drag and drop photos from other locations.
1st: iWeb media center
To get my photos into the media center, I would have to load them into iPhoto (iP 6 does allow you to keep your original file structure, but it still creates .jpg files, which fills up your hard-drive. More duplicates I don't need or want). So that is out for me. iP6 will let you view and use your Raw files.
Another way is to drag and drop your file structure directly into the media center window. I don't think this duplicates any files (at least I haven't been able to find any), but it takes an awfully long time to thumbnail all your photos (several hours and still waiting for 22K + files). Also, it won't show any Raw files. Again, out for me.
Aperture won't let you drag and drop its library into the media center at all. So if I was to move all my files into the Aperture Library, I wouldn't be able to access them for iWeb at all.....Out for me.
2nd: Drag and Drop
I was able to drag and drop Raw files directly into iWeb from C1 Pro, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Lightroom.
As I said before, I am trying to move over to Aperture. However, Aperture won't let me drag and drop photos. What is the deal here??? These are both Apple programs and they won't play nice with each other. Very annoying.
Anyway, I put a link below to my iWeb test webpage I made. All the photos were Raw files that I did a drag and drop from C1 Pro, Adobe Bridge and Lightroom. There were no problems with the publishing.
http://web.mac.com/phil_navarro/iWeb/Site%202/Drag%20and%20Drop%20test.html
So, does anyone know if they can get photos from Aperture to work?? Thanks for any responses.
Phil
G5 Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Jedi,
Perhaps you are right.
I am not a web developer and I will never be. I don't feel like spending countless hours learning how to use Dreamweaver or some other Pro web app. iWeb looked like a way to start making websites of my photos for my friends and family (much easier and better than Home Page on .Mac). All I was asking was for a way to drag and drop my photos (especially Raw files) with Aperture. Which I can do with Lightroom, Adobe Bridge and C1 Pro, and without using iPhoto.
I am not a Pro photographer either, but I purchased Aperture based on what was advertised on the Apple website. From that ad, Aperture fit my photo needs almost to a tee. I am looking to adjust Raw files, Crop, Archive and keep my use of Hard Disk space down to a minimum. I can use Photoshop for the other 5% of things I do. However, Aperture has some issues (if you own it, then you already know. If you don't, you can read the Aperture Forum) This is one of the reasons I never went to iPhoto for archiving. I didn't like the way it duplicated all my files, taking up more disk space and its file structure. So even though Aperture won't play nice with other programs, I was surprised that it wouldn't play nice with any Apple programs.
After reading your post and based on what you are saying, everyone either needs to have/learn/use Pro apps only or have/learn/use iApps only. Don't Cross the Streams!!
I guess that means Apple will need to fix DVD Studio Pro. It uses photos that are in your iPhoto library and music from iTunes (iApps in a Pro app??....for shame...."it was never intended"). Also, DVD SP won't read the Aperture library. Does that mean there are 3 platforms? Pro, iApp and Mediocre??
Now I have 2 questions:
1. Can someone please tell me which apps are Pro and iApp, or if there is Mediocre? I don't want to mix them up and "Cross the Streams".
2. Again....is there anyway to use Aperture with iWeb?
TIA,
Narvon

GE60 2PL (Win 8.1 64 bit) too much lag and freezes

So I have been using my GE60 2PL for about 2 weeks and there is so much lag..
Even when I'm using only chrome, sometimes the laptop freezes or lag (like when dragging tabs or files, it lag..)
The laptop was running in high performance with charger connected (without battery..)
So I have tried defragment, virus check, and driver upates but there are still so much lag
I don't really know what the problem is and pretty hard to identify what might be causing it too.. because my internet connection is okay as well as I'm not playing some high-end games.. (temperature is also okay)
I need some advice or solution to this lag.. I can provide you more information if necessary
oh and while I was playing Dota 2 my laptop got force shutdown (because I was using without battery, charger connected then my electricity went out... ) I am curious how would force shut down would effect the laptop? Like what will it damage?
Thank you

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oh and while I was playing Dota 2 my laptop got force shutdown (because I was using without battery, charger connected then my electricity went out... ) I am curious how would force shut down would effect the laptop? Like what will it damage?
this should not cause damage
attach your battery then plug again your ac charger and see how goes.
don't play only on ac charger, battery is used as addiction power source in addiction to the ac brick

A bit too much repeating :)

I haven't touched Spry in a bit over a year, and I'm having to go back a relearn a lot (and I usually only use this sort of thing on personal projects) -- so I am w-a-a-a-y out of my depth here.
I have an xml file:
     <Library>
         <Project>
               <Name>
                    <Items>
                         <Item>
                              <Detail>
                              <Detail>
                         </Item>
                         <Item>
          <Project>
I constructed a page that I was fairly proud of that displayed all of the data quite nicely for a single project. So then I added several more projects to the xml file and, for items that repeated within a project and that I was displaying with a "spry:repeat", I started getting all of them in the file showing up within the individual Project.
I actually can see, I think , how to solve this dynamically, but if I just want to display each project, more or less as a flat listing of the contents of the XML file (mostly to just prove to myself that I understand what is happening at this level before I try something some complex) what do I need to be doing? I've been reading the xpath summary over at w3schools, and have been reading the spry documentation concerning datasets but don't seem to have found (or understood?) what I am looking for that would explain to me what I am doing/doing wrong. I thought I was onto something about nested xml datasets and the example of cakes and their toppings, but I couldn't get that to work--and noticed that the SpryNestedXMLDataSet.js wasn't even included with the Dreamweaver includes, although it was in the total package when I downloaded that.
I want to keep reading the documentation, because that is the way I learn this sort of thing best, but could someone please give me a few hints so that I know that I am at reading in the right place?
Thanks!

Hi,
Sounds like Spry nested datasets is exactly what you need. I have a photos page that shows photos from multiple club events with each event having multiple photos. Sounds like a match for your multiple items within project
The page is here http://www.thehmc.co.uk/photos.asp and the xml source is here http://www.thehmc.co.uk/
xml/ImgPhotos.xml .
Within my XML consider collection equivalent to your project node and ImgPhotos equivalent of your item node.
You need to include the Spry nested dataset javascript file as well as the SpryData javascript file.
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryNestedXMLDataSet.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The Spry datasets are defined via
var Galleries = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("xml/ImgPhotos.xml", "imgGallery/Collection",{sortOnLoad:"PubDate",sortOrderOnLoad:"descending"});
Galleries.setColumnType("PubDate", "number");
var Photos = new Spry.Data.NestedXMLDataSet(Galleries, "ImgPhotos");
Then you defined the regions as below
<div class="SpryHiddenRegion" spry:region="Galleries Photos" >
        <div spry:repeat="Galleries">
              <div class="photoTitles">
              <h2>{Title}</h2>
              <p> {Description} <a href="{Link}" target="_blank" spry:if="'{Link}' != ''">MORE..</a></p>
              </div>
               <ul class="Gallery">
                   <li spry:repeat="Photos">
                     <a href="ePhotos.asp?imgUrl={Photos::imgUrl}&imgAlt={Photos::imgAlt}" target="_blank" ><img src="{Photos::imgUrl}" alt="{Photos::imgAlt}" /></a>{Photos::imgAlt}</li></ul>
       </div>
      </div>
Hope this helps
Regards
Phil

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Hello,
For a couple of months my computer has been making quite a bit of noise. I think that there is something wrong with the fan, but I'm not quite sure what to do. When I go on skype and talk with my friends, they say that they can even hear my computer's fan! Even through the telephone. If I try to load something, something that's Java, then it will only load if the fan is making a lot of noise. If my computer is silent then it won't load the program. Should I replace the fan in my mac or what should I do?
--Sofie
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Sofie,
It sounds like you have bigger problems than the noise of your fan, as you mentioned in your post,
"If I try to load something, something that's Java, then it will only load if the fan is making a lot of noise. If my computer is silent then it won't load the program."
You mac should load java regardless of the state of the fan, I think you may have other issues with your mac as the status of your fan making a lot of noise or not should in no way affect your ability to run applications on your Mac. Have you tried running the Hardware test on the CD/DVD that came with your iMac ? that may help track down a possible problem. Failing that trying doing a new install of your mac (remember to back up all your files first). I know that sounds a bit drastic but its worth a try.

Deleting preferences a bit too much

about three or four times a week I have to thrash my pages preferences in order to get spell checking working. this can get very annoying, and if anyone has any ideas how I could get spellcheck working without having to repitiately thrash my pages preferences that would be very helpful. I'm using cocoaAspell's norwegian bokmål and norwegian nynorsk spellcheckers, but it doesn't matter which one I use. no matter what I set the spellchecker to pages thinks it's english and I have to thrash preferences. any ideas? I'd prefer not to reinstall Pages as both my sisters have this same problem, so id doesn't seem like it would help.

iWork, as I have found, for some reason does not get it's language setting from OS X.
What you need to do is this.
Go to the Inspector (in Pages) then click on the Text button (at the top. Now click on the "More" tab. Somewhere on the window you should see "Languages". Make sure it is set to the language you want.
I used have this problem with iWork. It wouldn't even save my language choice. So I had to create a custom template (File->Save as Template) in order to keep it this way. For some reason Pages has recently stopped this and has set itself to British English, so I deleted the templates.
I hope everything works out for you!

Eats up too much external hard drive space

I just turned on TM, and for no reason that I can think of, it's doing a backup that is eating up 34GB of external hard drive space. Here are my questions.
1. Why might this be happening?
2. What happens when external hard drive is full. What's the default move that it will make?
3. How can I reduce the files that TM looks to back up. I need only ONE copy of my movies, for example. But I need frequent backups of my mail files. And for sure I need frequent backups of my doc folder.
4. If I rent a movie on iTunes, will it be saved to external HD?
Thanks...

I'm assuming the 34GB you mentioned is not part of the initial backup. If on an hourly backup it really is backing up 34 GB, then there is/are huge file(s) involved. Are you using Parallels or some other virtual operating system? These can use one huge file to store everything. Make one small change to it and the whole file is backed up. Same thing with Entourage or Outlook. These store all emails in one file. Add or delete one email and the entire file (which could be huge) is backed up.
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Too much Sculpture?

Hi all,
For my course I have to do a piece of work using only Sculpture to create a "real sounding" sound design for a piece of video. In total there are about 40 to 60 different sounds I need to create=lots of Sculptures!
At the minute I'm running about 9 instances of Sculpture and a 24.6mB video clip through Logic. (I also have a fair bit of automation running too)
Problem is it's all getting to be a bit too much for my poor iMac. I know this is all power and RAM hungry stuff, but question is, how many instances of Sculpture can I sensibly expect my computer to be able to handle? Also, what is the best way to get around this? Should I compress the video down,should I start bouncing out some audio into another session, or would freezing the tracks help?
I also need to be able to keep all my instances of Sculpture, and it would be nice if i could keep them all in the same session..is there a way I could keep all the instances of Sculpture in one session!?
Sorry it's so many questions all in one hit! Thanks for any help.
Mike
iMac G5, 2GHz, 1G RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8) Logic Pro 7.1.1, M-Audio Firewire 410

mate you are definitely going about this the wrong way!!
what to do is design each sound carefully - and i would not necessarily use sculpture to achieve this, then export the midi region as an audio file. if you export them as a wav, you can then import them into a different song, hit move audio to original position and all your individually hand crafted sounds will line up in their correct position. you will use wayyy less resources.
sculpture won't necessarily make things more realistic - it is much better for creating otherworldly sounds. you would do far better to do your own foley recording. literally go and record bits of metal clunking together, that sort of thing. and you would be very surprised as to what sounds 'realistic'. sometimes the oddest combinations of things time stretched or tuned down can sound more 'realistic' than the actual sound itself. in the same way they used different shades of pink and purple to give the uniforms the right effect in the black and white classic 'the great dictator'.
that combined with a really terrific space designer IR or several to put the objects into the right space in relation to what you see and you can get a very slick and realistic effect.
you don't need to be running 40-60 tracks of sculpture mate.

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So last night I was just doing some testing with the c100 and I noticed that in the viewfinder after auto white balancing, there ws a bit too much green in spots where there relly shouldnt be. I took some video and wanted to see if this was just something in the LCD screen or the actual video, and the green cast was indeed in the video. I went into the color profiles and tried adding magenta but it actually did nothing to reduce the green in the areas I was seeing it in and only made everything else more magenta.
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Hi JerTob,
We are sorry to hear that you are still having issues with the color casts. I suspect that this has a lot to do with the color temperature of the lighting that you are shooting in. What you have shown us is indoors, it's hard to make a distinct determination on the lighting because you could have any number of temperature bulbs in the mix. This type of mixture of lighting can have distinct effects on the color casts you see in the final image. This is especially true if shooting with household bulbs in an overhead or something to that effect.
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Imessage uses too much storage

Hello,
I've got a big problem. I updated my ipod Touch 5g 64 GB to ios7 on thursday. When I was looking in the settings to see the new options and functions, I got to the overview of all apps and how much storage they take. Normally, my 2 GB games were there at the top, but this time, I was really shocked: iMessage used 13,1 GB of my storage although I've cleared my complete history. I noticed that my ipod uses a bit too much storage, but ios 6 didn't show the usage of imessage. I searched for an option to delete these files, but I didn't find an option for that (signing out of imessage and apple id, checking imessage). Now my question is: How can I delete those files, because it takes too much storage and I can't even use them.

You have corrupted files on the iPod I suspect that if yo connect the the iPod to yur computer the "other" amount of storage would be large.
What is the Other on my iPhone and How to Remove It
First try restoring from backup.
Last, restoreing to factory setting/new iPod may be required if the corruption is in the backup

Aperture too much for an amateur?

Is Aperture too much program for an amateur? I have used Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS2(still learning)on a Windows machine. I hear really good things about Aperture such as ease of use and not to bad of a learning curve.
In trying to break away from Windows, I would like to have a better program for my photo editing than iPhoto and thought maybe Aperture would be perfect or is PS Elements worth a look for apple? Any thoughts before I shell out any money?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

What is it you want beyond iPhoto and Elements?
For image editing Aperture is almost certainly easier than the Photoshop products as Aperture is designed just for photography and PS does everything and then some; but Aperture doesn't do local editing.
Aperture is not trivial. You of course can use it right away, but to use it effectively will take some work. I'm moving over from iView MediaPro. I was using IVMP rather than iPhoto because iPhoto was too far behind IVMP when I got interested. I working through the Luna/Long training book, and Long's book. I jumped to Aperture as I had wanted to use more RAW and Aperture made it practical.
If you search a bit in this forum you'll find plenty of (true) comments pointing out that PS and Aperture are complimentary not competitors. For most people Aperture will take care of most of their editing, but PS will be needed for selective editing.
It might be worth waiting for Elements 5 to see what it brings. Since the next round of Creative Suite is due early next year (beta out now), Elements shouldn't be too far behind. Lightroom will be coming along in that time frame too presumably.
Aperture is mostly about organizing images and handling RAW images.
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Aperture too much for Nvidia 6600?

I've heard that Aperture is too much for dealing with RAW files using the Nvidia 6600. I just bought an EOS 40D, and am wondering if anyone knows if this is true. I know Adobe has Lightroom as an alternative to Aperture, but if I can I'd prefer Apple's software. Is Apple planning on releasing graphics card updates for their PPC G5's? I have a Quad. Thanks!

Yes it runs. You might want to do a reinstall, or go through the troubleshooting docs.
I made the 1.5 update, have a Quad, an Nvidia GeForce 6600, and it works. It's just not a great LCD resolution, nor as fast at rendering as you'd hope.
Is there some super special soldering that needs to be done in order to install a Quadro FX 4500 or GeFore 7800 GT? Is that why Apple isn't providing upgrades for their 6600 userbase?
I realize they need special firmware in order to work on Apple motherboards, that's why Nvidia offers no Mac support...but once again, wth?
Apple Store employee's have been recommending I go buy one at Fry's....lol. Gee, if only it was so easy.
Unfortunately there is no upgrade available for PCI-Express PowerPC Mac's beyond the Nvidia GeForce 6600, which I already have, it was stock in my machine, and it's NOT good enough.

I bought a new 13 macbook pro with 4gb and would like to get aperture 3.4.3. Will it require too much ram for my computer? Thanks

I just bought a macbook pro 13" with 4gb and would like to get aperture on it. Will aperture require too much ram for my computer? Thanks for any support.

I just bought a macbook pro 13" with 4gb
I have been using Aperture on such a system, and it was o.k. with Snowleopard and moderately sized images. After I upgraded to Lion and started to user larger image files - 30 MB tiffs, I saw the occasional beachball spinning. You should be prepared to quit other applications that will hog the RAM (like Safari), when working with Aperture on Lion or Mt. Lion with only 4 GB. If you can, follow Frank Caggiano's recommendation and upgrade to 8GB. It will make a large difference.
Regards
Léonie

Tried bit alas did not help. It's too much of a coincidence that I got download then problem immediately after.Still think its Apples fault.Only about 4 of every 10 e mails affected!!!!!

Tried bit alas did not help. It's too much of a coincidence that I got download then problem immediately after.Still think its Apples fault.Only about 4of every 10 e mails affected!!!!!

I'd suggest you follow up in the thread you started in regards to the problem rather than starting new topics:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24982409#24982409
If you start a new topic part way through discussing an issue, people don't know what you're referring to. It's also consider impolite to post all in caps in Internet forums, as using caps is considered to be shouting.
Regards.

IPad & Aperture: general workflow suggestions?

Fell in love with the iPad screen -- purchased one (excellent as a portfolio). Looking for general advice on using it as part of my RAW workflow. (I have Apple's "Camera Connection Kit".)
Thanks .
OK: what I've done so far: uploaded "shoots" to the iPad, Cropped to suit. Separately imported same files into Aperture via the camera card. Tried and failed to delete the photos albums on MiPad. That's it. Decided to not use the iPad in my workflow until I learn more. Removed all photos-syncing via iTunes. Posted this message.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Well, at least _someone replied .
leonieDF wrote:
No answer, Kirby - I am thread-jacking . Which model did you choose? I want to buy one too, but I'll want it for geotagging and navigation, and maybe for browsing images, if I am away from home and do not want to take my 17" laptop along. It is funny - my 13" MBP went with me everywhere, but since I have a 17" model, that is no longer true.
I wonder if it may be possible to go on a week long photo safari with only a camera and an iPad.
So this thread is now officially completely OT.
I bought the semi-inexpensive one: black, 32 GB (according to the iPad itself, 28 GB capacity), no 4G.
- black because photos look better on it. I prefer the white, but the white plastic has a slight yellow cast, and no one likes to look at face in a greasy collar
- 32 GB because I knew from my iPhone that 16 wasn't enough, but 32 is. I don't use it for video or storing music (I subscribe to XM and may subscribe to Pandora or equivalent). More storage is always better, but I'd rather save the $100.
- no 4G because I already pay way too much for my iPhone contract, I live in a city (lots of free WiFi), and I have very fast WiFi access at home and at the two places I work. With iCloud, I only need cellular access on one device, and I already have it on MiPhone.
Obviously, without 4G (or whatever you have over in Euro-land ), you can't do geotagging or navigation.
I recently tested a camera with built-in GPS (Sony a77). _Very, very_ handy. I've been adding Aperture Locations by neighborhood, and had become used to that level of granularity -- and am simply giddy with the "This photo was taken in the middle of this block" specificity of the on-camera GPS tagging.
I added a great little keyboard I am happy to recommend: the Adonit Writer+ (for the new iPad -- the old one won't work well). I touch type, I needed an iPad cover -- and now I have one that includes a BlueTooth keyboard. Fantastic. Should I want the iPad naked, it pops out and snaps in in 1s. The keyboard charge is said to last a year. So I have an iPad convertible to a netbook. Did I say "Fantastic"? I got the red one.
Also in my recommended column: the Wacom stylus for the iPad -- pricey but excellent, once you get used to writing/drawing with rubber on glass -- and the Adonic Jot pen -- the best drawing (not painting, drawing) tool for the iPad. I draw on MiPad every morning and every evening. Six hundred years ago artists used pads they prepared with flour (iirc -- haven't looked this up in a long time). They sketched on them till they were dark with marks, then wiped them clean and put another layer of flour and glue on them. A great way to learn. The iPad comes close.
It's an _excellent_ size for light-weight travel. I lived with a 12" Powerbook for a few years -- still, imho, the best form-factor of any computer ever (CinemaScope® makes sense at room size, but I've never thought it right for paintings, books, or computers) -- the iPad is close to a scaled down version of that screen. The iPad, in the Adonit cover, fits right in the unused back sleeve of my most used camera bag (ThinkTank Retrospective 20).
But can it substitute for a laptop on a safari? I don't know -- but having read widely on fitting the iPad into a photography workflow, I can report that most who've tried say "No". It's certainly an excellent viewer -- I got, and you'll want (and want to include in your budget), the Apple Camera Connection Kit, which consists of two adapters: Applejack to USB, and Applejack to SC card. Uploading RAW files (I use Sony cameras) works without a hitch. Editing, adding metadata, or doing any organizing however has to wait until you're back with a real computer. (OK, you can crop on the iPad, and tart things up with SnapSeed.) The iPad works well for storage/backup, and for viewing the pictures as shot. You can email those. That's it. If you record JPG only, don't edit, and don't keyword or use other organizing, the iPad will meet your needs. If you have 6,000 "maven" points in the Apple Aperture discussion forum, you're going to find it more toy than tool. On the other hand, if you can do without a computer on a safari, it is probably worth its weight to carry along as a viewer.
The screen is delicious. It's absolutely fantastic for showing photos (if you're OK with showing them on a screen).
I haven't settled on a workflow yet, but I suspect I'll end up syncing a couple of Aperture Smart Folders (wirelessly, btw), possibly via iCloud, showing my "Portfolio" pictures and my "Shot in the last 23 days" pictures. At some point it will be a live camera viewer -- but we're not there yet.
So that's the rundown from Pittsburgh. Let us know what you decide. .

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