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> The author's view excludes fine art photography as well as a number of other types which value quality of speed and quantity.

Making it faster to get photos off the device helps fine art photographers as well, just not as much, because they're less latency-sensitive. I don't see any way in which it hurts them.

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Most photography professionals aside from journalists use RAW format which results in many gigabytes of data. The author is proposing that images go to the cloud, but this just isn't feasible with our current cellular connections when you have gigabytes of data.

Fair point. I suppose I have the perspective of "If my workflow worked fine before why should I change it?"

Also chances are if you shot several gigs of data you are using your own external card reader, especially so if you aren't using SD cards. I can transfer 32GB from a CF card in about 3 minutes with my USB3 reader too.

On a personal note I still shoot film and am perhaps a bit more comfortable with longer latency than most others.

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