I’ve had enough with laptops/desktops

So I do my photography with a Sony a7R II, a 42.4 megapixel beast.  I shoot my footage with a Canon Vixia HF G50, a 4K/30fps camcorder and I edit everything on a 2018 Apple iPad Pro with the 512GB hard drive, the 12.9” screen and 4GB of memory.  I was thinking of upgrading the iPad Pro to the 2020 iPad Pro with the 1TB hard drive and 6GB of RAM.  From what I have read, the new 2020 Apple iPad Pro is only 1% faster than the 2018 Apple iPad Pro.  Is it worth upgrading?  Hell no.  Not for $1949 plus tax.  I did get the new Apple keyboard though for the iPad.  It should be here in a few weeks.  I have absolutely no need for a laptop or a desktop to edit my photography or my footage.  The iPad Pro is just a beast of a powerhouse.  Maybe I will upgrade in 2021 when they bring out the A14X chip.  The 12.9” screen is just fine.  I can edit fine detail in my photography in Affinity Photo or Pixelmator Photo.  Apple Photos is just fine for my video editing I believe.  I don’t do heavy edits in any app.  I just shoot in RAW for photography.  File sizes are about 85 megabytes and the iPad Pro has no problem handling these types of file sizes.  The Canon Vixia HF G50 outputs 500-600 megabyte files for a minute of 4K footage which is all I use to upload to Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Pond5 and Storyblocks.

The only problem I can foresee for myself is file storage.  I may need to upgrade in a year or two for the 1TB hard drive.  If Apple puts a 2TB, 4TB or an 8TB hard drive into future iPads, there will be no reason to buy a laptop or a desktop.  Apple will just need to upgrade their online storage.  With the current 2TB cap for $12 a month is just not enough.  I’d probably need 4-8TB of online storage.  I would be willing to pay $20-25 a month for 4-8TB of online storage.

New domain for my other site

So in keeping with the .photos domain name top level domain names, I purchased a new domain to go with my Fine Art America account.  You can visit http://josefpittner.photos to see the website where you can buy prints, wall art, clothing, posters etc.  I've sold a few items on there.  Enough to pay for the domain and the $30 fee it costs to get the premium features.  I don't upload as much on there as I do to Shutterstock.  But the photos I do sell, typically sell for $30 to $70 which is better than $0.36 for a small digital photo.  I have not sold a video this month on Shutterstock which is kind of out of the ordinary.  Typically I sell one to ten videos a month.  I sold one on Pond5 this month which I got paid for already.  Fine Art America has not sent me my $70US yet but I'm expecting that this afternoon at some point.  Once they do, I'm a quarter of the way there to getting my Sony RX100 Mark VI.  So if you need some stock footage, you can go to my Shutterstock footage portfolio and purchase some footage.