Is it still the case that the Photos app on iPad Pro (latest iPadOS, 13.1.2) can’t import Canon .CR3 files via an Apple SD card reader connected to the iPad port? I just tried this repeatedly with a card reader and it said it was importing, but I got a white expanse. I reconfirmed that .CR2 imports just fine from the card reader. Thanks!
OK, I was wrong about .CR3 not being supported on iPad. It’s an app issue. Apparently, for Canon one must use the Canon Camera Connect app to connect to the camera via WiFi. I tried it and it works. I uploaded .CR3’s with the Canon app, exported them to the Photos app, and from there I imported them into Lightroom for iPad, which was my objective in the first place. This is a needlessly complicated process. I don’t know who needs to fix this—Apple or Adobe—but it does need fixing, IMO. As things stand, this involved process isn’t of much help to me, as I would like to be shooting with another card while my pics upload to iPad Pro from the previous card. Works with .jpg and .CR2, but not with .CR3’s.
Perhaps the import process will be streamlined when Photoshop for iPad Pro is released. For now, my problem is as “solved” as it can be.
OK, I was wrong about .CR3 not being supported on iPad. It’s an app issue. Apparently, for Canon one must use the Canon Camera Connect app to connect to the camera via WiFi. I tried it and it works. I uploaded .CR3’s with the Canon app, exported them to the Photos app, and from there I imported them into Lightroom for iPad, which was my objective in the first place. This is a needlessly complicated process. I don’t know who needs to fix this—Apple or Adobe—but it does need fixing, IMO. As things stand, this involved process isn’t of much help to me, as I would like to be shooting with another card while my pics upload to iPad Pro from the previous card. Works with .jpg and .CR2, but not with .CR3’s.
Perhaps the import process will be streamlined when Photoshop for iPad Pro is released. For now, my problem is as “solved” as it can be.
I hardly found something in the web ... but here‘s what I found out: importing the CR3 over the USB-C Card Reader is no problem ... you just don‘t see a preview which is a nag. But you can import these files e.g. in lightroom mobile an process them without problems - even if lightroom tells you not to be able to view them - just ignore that. BUT I found out something else ... when I setup my EOS R or RP the way to record both RAW and e.g. a small JPEG, you‘ll see a preview in iOS/Photos. Then you also the a preview when selecting the import in lightroom - AND it imports the RAW then. I wonder if the JPEG ist embedded in the CR3RAW and the software is clever enough. However it works fine and I can edit the images in full resolution
Hello,
Are you able to import these images using the Files application?
Hi David,
A quick question, not really link to your problem of CR3,
But if you copy one of your photo from the card reader to Files, When you open from Files is the photo clean, or is it a bit blurry?
Because I have this problem on my IPad with my pics taken from my 1DXII.
Thanks if you can let me know.
No. Other sources are telling me that the .CR3 format isn’t supported on IPad. Thanks again, Apple!
iPad Pro and Canon .CR3 Images
