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[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by Daz

Can you not use it like any old mass storage device Pete?

But what does he then connect it to? Surely if he needs to connect it to a laptop or something to use the mass storage facilities, he'd be better just taking the laptop.

Pete could you have the smaller images then have the rest on your webspace which you can then view via safari?

[petemc]

Originally Posted by Daz

Can you not use it like any old mass storage device Pete?

For some unknown reason the iPod Touch and iPhone don't have the disk mode feature. Its a bit odd. Even if they did I'd still need to plug it into something or hope an application comes out to enable disk access. But either way my Dad made a good point. It might not be the best thing to carry my entire portfolio around in hires on a small easily stealable device. I've got 10gb webspace and I'll have to look into sorting some form of stock library I think.

Originally Posted by leowyatt

But what does he then connect it to? Surely if he needs to connect it to a laptop or something to use the mass storage facilities, he'd be better just taking the laptop.

Pete could you have the smaller images then have the rest on your webspace which you can then view via safari?

I should have read ahead

[divine]

Originally Posted by petemc

Ok so it seems that iTunes optimises images for the screen size.

I could have told you that if you'd asked

[Mark]

Originally Posted by petemc

But either way my Dad made a good point. It might not be the best thing to carry my entire portfolio around in hires on a small easily stealable device.

He's spot on there. Your portfolio is everything to you - not worth the risk. I'd put some thought into how to protect your work online before uploading there too as it's even easier to 'lose' online stuff.

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by petemc

I should have read ahead

How large is your portfolio?

[petemc]

Originally Posted by divine`

I could have told you that if you'd asked

I did a quick google and found nothing so placed the order. I figured it had a big screen, the ability to zoom in and lots of space so it'd be fine. Just seems so silly zooming in on a 640px image.

Originally Posted by Mark

He's spot on there. Your portfolio is everything to you - not worth the risk. I'd put some thought into how to protect your work online before uploading there too as it's even easier to 'lose' online stuff.

For sure. I am with a stock library but they're just so anal. Any hint of noise and the picture is rejected. Which is completely stupid with editorial work because you shoot at high iso and its printed at a low dpi so you can't see noise for toffee.

Originally Posted by leowyatt

How large is your portfolio?

I have 6gb in iPhoto that needs sorting out.

[leowyatt]

Hmmm I'm wondering if there is something we can do with your touch so you can control your mac from home and upload/email any images you need.

[petemc]

Web based vnc maybe.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by leowyatt

But what does he then connect it to? Surely if he needs to connect it to a laptop or something to use the mass storage facilities, he'd be better just taking the laptop.

So long as there's basic file browsing facilities on it, he could attach the hires version to an email or whatever. But as it cant be used like that it's moot!

[divine]

Originally Posted by leowyatt

Hmmm I'm wondering if there is something we can do with your touch so you can control your mac from home and upload/email any images you need.

Well, he could always just put the images on a separate 'site' (a subdomain or something) that's designed to be easy to use on the touch, then, wherever he has wifi, he can access pictures in full size (safari downloads images properly as far as I can tell).

This is probably the easiest way you'll manage to get decent resolution pictures on it.

edit - or maybe, http://www.insanelygreattees.com/news/?p=51 - "Filemarks let you store high res images, text files, and PDFs on an iPhone!" May well work