Ah, very excited for this. I have just now been looking at the API of dropbox to look into making a photos app that fits my needs. The big request I have is for Dropbox to render raw files in their website, mobile app, and now carousel. It's great the video shows g-pa taking photos on a film camera, and presumably these are being scanned to jpegs, but what about people who shoot raw, or have images scanned to raw? Would LOVE for my 10000s raw images to be viewable in this. Please. Please? They're just taking up space right now and un-viewable, and dreaming for the day they get "activated".
Initial thoughts from trying it out, I do think its great so far:
- there are some unfortunate missing capabilities (no way to remove conversations)
- got into a stuck spot where I had to force-quit the app (edit: found cause; it was because the 'Share' view's X was not tappable while being on a call.)
- i'm not entirely sure how the auto-import feature will work with how I have dropbox.app already auto-importing... I did a test and I don't have duplicates, but which app is doing it now?
- on ios, this is totally going after the ios photostream, which is fine for me. I do use the photostream with people for shared albums, but this might be more open and customizable if you could remove stuff or make 'albums'. I guess i'd like a way to make standalone ways to share without having the whole conversation paradigm tagged on (which is good for a lot situations, but not all I'd be looking for)
- no raw as expected, but i thought i'd complain again
- the horizontal bar for scrolling date ranges coupled with the standard vertical grid of photos is fantastic.
- Also, what is the point of "hidden" — this one seems like a big curveball. Dropbox/Carousel is like 'your own stuff' so why would you need to hide something; I just don't understand the use case — maybe like you're browsing photos with someone else and you wouldn't want them to see some special photo, but don't want it deleted?
- Swipe down to hide I think is too high of a UI for hiding photos ... If I swipe up to share, I instinctually swipe down to not share and 'get out' of the photo view... I'm glad there's a catch for 'are you sure' but I really would prefer to have it be not that accessible. I don't have a huge need for hiding (as I don't even entirely get it as I mentioned above) so I'm not digging how big it is in the UI
I've reviewed their offerings since they announced with great interest, but it doesn't have the whole 'sync' across devices as neatly coupled as this (dropbox) does. They only sync up the 'smart preview's of the raw files from the desktop. There is also a 20gb limit. I am nearing the 200gb limit of my dropbox.
Right now w/ Dropbox/Carousel, I have mobile photos uploaded via Camera Upload and that is a watched folder in Lightroom, so now my Phone/Pad/Web/Desktop-Lightroom are all in terrific sync, just without RAW files being viewable anywhere but Desktop.
Lightroom for Mobile doesnt seem to have a set limit:
From their FAQ {1]:
Does syncing images to Lightroom mobile use a portion of the 20GB of cloud storage I get with my Creative Cloud complete membership?
