How to Import Your Photos to iPhone and Editing Workflow

Something fun I’m experimenting with:

Importing photos I shoot on my RICOH GR III to iPhone via the SD card lightning adapter, selecting my favorite photos, and uploading them directly to my blog from iPhone.

It’s essentially the same as iPad, except iPhone has the benefit of being even smaller and more compact.

My workflow

Insert SD card into iPhone SD card adapter

In Photos app, go into “import”

Create new album to import photos to

Create new album

Select and import photos to album

Favorite or “pick”picture you like

Keep photos on SD CARD (if you want to import them to your computer later).

Benefits and tips when using iPhone to import and share photos

If you import photos to iPhone, you can easily message, text, or send your photos to friends or family
Benefit of seeing your photos on a smaller phone screen: You can quickly judge and evaluate your photos based on composition.
When you travel, leave the laptop at home. You can import and process your photos all on iPhone — another step towards becoming ultralight weight, and simplifying our devices and stuff.

Other thoughts

Importing from your camera to iPhone is quite seamless with the SD lightning adapter, and 1000x faster than WiFi or Bluetooth. Considering RICOH GR III 10x better image quality than iPhone Pro, perhaps we should start thinking of the iPhone simply as a mini and portable computer. Also good as a camera, but if your impetus is to make the best possible looking images, perhaps standalone camera is best.
Assuming we think of iPhone as the mini computer, you don’t necessarily need the newest or the best iPhone. Even a refurbished or used iPhone X seems sufficient, and a lot more price affordable.