The new (2012) iPad with the Retina display is looking good for photographers. Anand Lal Shimpi over at Anandtech has got hold of an early copy, and put its new Retina display through its paces. Page three of his review makes for encouraging reading. Specifically, Anand reports that the gamut of the new Retina display is approximately sRGB. For the non-photographers reading this, gamut is about how wide a range of color a display can show. Wider gamut gives more vivid, colorful images that are closer to reality.

Anand views the gamut as good news because this means that the Retina display's gamut is considerably larger than the gamut of the old iPad and iPad 2. He's right on that being good news, but the near-sRGB gamut is also good news for technical reasons.

Taking a look round the photography forums recently, two things are clear:

Using iPads and iPhones for image editing is getting more and more popular - the introduction of iPhoto on the iPad by Apple seems to have got a lot of people interested, but There is a lot of confusion about what the various iPad based photo editing apps actually do, and very few recent reviews that compare them. Now this isn't a review - as the author of PhotoRaw, I'm hugely biased.

As soon as iPhoto for the iPad came out this week, the obvious question was "can it handle raw files?"

The answer is no, there's no raw file support in iPhoto for the iPad - I did some playing with iPhoto on an iPad 2 as soon as it came out, and it clearly doesn't do raw conversions. Raws from Leica M8s and Sony NEX cameras came up as preview size. In the case of the the Sony it shows as 1616 x 1080, well short of the NEX's full 4592 x 3056 raw resolution.
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