Viewing photos FULL SCREEN from an SD card prior to selecting for import.

Well as it turns out, I’m new to the Mac universe. None of my Windows machines were ever that retarded. But then again I wasn’t using cloud storage in those days, I had my own server and NAS. Anyway after using a couple generations of iPads and the server/ storage becoming too geriatric and too expensive to replace, I decided to drink the iMac coolaid. I’d been using a Vivitar card reader with its own app on the iPad and Nikon's SnapBridge for limited downloads. Unfortunately after Apple iOS went to version 14 the Vivitar app no longer worked, I switched over to my ancient Windows box but that got too flaky. I tried using the Photos app on the iPad and a different card reader, but the iOS import would not allow selections or imports until it had read every image on a 20gb card. Unbelievably stupid software, if the card was anywhere near even 25% full it just lost its mind. But, if it were able to complete the initial read it would at least display full screen selected images.

Anyway after spending $2K on a Mac Pro, I am just stunned that in the 21st century the Apple OS software is this stupid! Even if it is traditional, it should have been fixed years ago. The only reason I can imagine for doing it this way is so the user will wind up overdosing his iCloud Storage and Apple can up their monthly billing.

Thanks for the friendly reply, I appreciate your input. Sorry about the rant, I’m facing a couple deadlines and I’m getting really frustrated.

After a day in the field birding I may have over 1,000 images on the card. I usually shoot Raw at 8fpm for birds in flight with a 48mp sensor camera. Each image can be over 19mb. Of that 1,000 maybe only 3% or 4% are worth keeping, but until you can see a full size image you don’t really know what you have. Dumping to whole lot before culling the junks sucks up crazy storage resources and crazy transfer time. If I could just sort through pics on the SD cad lif would be a lot smoother.

Thanks for responding but I’m already doing what your suggesting. The problem i guess is the Apple developers just didn’t understand the full amount of data involved.