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I guys quick question (no,don't think so)is it pos to view raw files in Dropbox on ipad or have they all got to be converted to jpeg. What a fafff that would be
 
Quick answer - possibly wrong - is that I very much doubt it, not least because each camera manufacturer has their own proprietary RAW format.
 
Raw data is just that: the raw data off the sensor. Until you turn it into something which can be recognised by an application it remains just a series of ones and noughts. You do this by 'wrapping' it in a digital 'container' which tells the rest of the world how to deal with it.

If you wrap 10011001001010010010011101001 in an MP3 container it becomes a fragment of music, the same sequence can become an image in a JPG wrapper, a text string in a word processor and so on. Just firing a long string of digits at a storage facility will enable you to store them as files (.nef from Nikon for example) but you won't be able to view them directly.
 
Probably. I can certainly view canon raw files on my iPad when I import them using the sd card adapter. I don't know if the iPad reads the raw files (I doubt it does) of if the raw contains a basic jpeg preview. It's certainly good enough to sort the photos though.
 
windows 7 supports most raw formats in Live view, don't know about apple though without paying lots for the priviledge
 
You can upload RAWs to Dropbox but you wont get a file preview.

Once they are downloaded you would need the relevant program to view/edit them.
 
You should look at it in a different way. Why would you want to view RAW on iPad? You are not going to want to edit them fully on your iPad, are you? If you only want a quick preview on something other than back of your camera, then jpeg should do the job just nicely. If you want to, you can tweak them jpgs a little in something like Snapseed, but even then, that would be far from what I'd call "edits" for most part.
 
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