RAW picture previews loading extremely slow since IOS 8 using the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit

Same problem I have.

Viewing RAW files is extreamly slow In IOS 8

How can I back to IOS 7?

You can't. Ever.

I just updated to the latest update, 8.1.1 which specifically is supposed to address performance issues and... same ****. No improvement whatsoever. Big surprise.

I do have the same problem on my iPad Mini running iOS 8.1.1, Camera Connection Kit and DNG+JPG, as well as ORF+JPG files. Incredible slow when importing file previews. The import of the final photos takes hours. Afterwards it comes to an additional effect, that all RAW files have been resized to the JPG file size. On previous iOS 7.x the import with the same hardware was an affair of a couple of minutes and Metadata editing via PhotosInfo Pro went smoothly. Now this worklow has been completely broken.

I hope for quick fix

Same problem here on iOS 8.1 and an iPad mini 2. Importing Raw files through the camera connection kit takes a long time, around 1 second per photo to load. I hope that Apple fixes this soon.

How do you move back to iOS 7 from iOS 8?

Still very slow, using ios 8.1.1 on ipad 3 retina ...

Dear fellow apple sufferers,

Same here, Importing and working with NEF files (D600) way too slow with ipad3 retina under IOS 8.1.1. SanDisk 45 MBps card. Worked fine under IOS7.

on import with camera connection kit: generating thumbnails take about 5 sec each.

importing the NEF (no NEF+JPG) about 7 sec each.

In photo app it takes about 5 secs to move to next picture.

Carefully developed workflow with iPad now impossible.

iPad generally much slower than under IOS7.

Apple prevents us from going back. Who do they think they are? Customer should be king.

New iPad out of the question - software will be just as inefficient wasting faster hardware.

For me this is the last straw. Apple myth broken. Voting with my feet. No more apple gear. There are plenty better (and cheaper) devices out there. It will take some time to complete the switch, but at least I will have regained my full freedom.

Good luck to you all.

Hi

I did some tests an when the card has only jpeg's the thumbnails appear instantly. When there are RAW's it takes "ages"...

So, I tried with a RAW + monochrome jpeg... To see which one it displayed in the thumbnail...

It takes a lot of time, again like it's reading the RAW, but then shows the image in black and white, so it's apparently loading the RAW, but then shows the jpeg...

This makes no sense... I created a bug report, go here and vcreate your own, pressure to fix this:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Thanks for the feedback pfapl. If you don't mind sharing some more detail, how did you do thus test with the RAW + B&W JPEGS? Would love to recreate your test on mine.

Hello

i just took a picture with the black and white filter with my camera. So the JPEG is in black and white, but the RAW is allways the same.

Hope I helped.

yes that helps, thanks! Which camera are you using?

Hello

It's a Pana/Lumix GX7. But it should be identical in every other camera...

Did you manage top recreate?

I saw in the other thread you created that you had some contact with apple. Any news from them?

Hopefuly it will be solved quickly... I dont need it for work, but I very much miss going through my pics in "the field" right after taking them...

I'm trying to decide whether I should purchase the camera connector to view RAW files from CF cards. Unfortunately I updated to iOS 8 long ago... anyone know if this issue has been resolved yet?

Well, I guess it's comforting to see that I'm not alone, though I was hoping to find some clever solution. Not only is it painfully slow, but since it's so slow just to load the thumbnails, I would set down the iPad and do something else for a while, during which time it would go back to the lock screen. Then when I come back in, it wants to start the process all over. Grr.

My camera has the ability to record RAW (NEF) to one card while simultaneously recording JPG to the other. I'm glad to hear that others are finding JPG fast. What I'm planning to try is doing the split RAW/JPG recording, and then using the JPG-only card in the field to get stuff into the iPad. I'll bring the RAWs in back in the studio. Not ideal, but I hope workable.

Has anyone tried this via some other iPad app? Maybe some third-party SW will perform well. I dunno.