About a year ago I purchased a 24″ iMac. I have been using Lightroom2 and PhotoshopCS4 Extended to process my images after I calibrated the monitor using an Eye-One sensor. I have had some trouble with prints being made by others including Mpix gallery wraps, the results were always too dark. A little sleuthing led me to many, many forum postings stating the brightness of the iMac display could not be reduced enough for accurate calibration. Aha! That is exactly the problem! My solution? I’m doing all photo processing on my MacBook Pro which calibrated beautifully.
I would love to see an app on the iPad which contains most of the functionality of Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. I’m not needing to store a lot of images, I just want to be able to manipulate RAW images, save as jpegs, print them, download to a website, create a slide show, put them in documents, etc. It would also be great to be able to tether the iPad to your camera. Reviewing images on the iPad would be much easier than using the LCD. You could then just import the RAW images you want to work on to save memory. Now, does the iPad have a display with enough color depth to support this? I don’t know, but for quick and dirty edits it would be great.