Tethered shooting with iPad

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Industrial Photographer
I have a Canon R5 and an iPad Air with USB-C, and I want to use the iPad to check and select images. Or by Wi-Fi/Bluetooth (Which I think is a hassle) or USB-C cable.

Now, I have my clients look at the back of the iPad to check if their photo is good. Select the correct one. I do not have to cull the image, but I want to rate the image with a star so that when I import them into Photo Mechanic and later into Lightroom, the rating is maintained.

Does anyone have it working? Which app do I use? What are the drawbacks? And the experiences?
 
You can do it easily with Canon's "Camera Connect" app on Android phones by Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. I don't see why it wouldn't work with an iPad. The only drawback it's a little slower to load the photos compared to if you already had the images on your tablet. Hopefully it's not slow enough to cause a problem :)
 
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Thank you, I know. But the iPad has a USB-c connection now, and I wanted to do it with a cable because it is more stable than the Wi-Fi/bluetooth connection. How would I make that work?
Does that work with the canon camera connect app or do I need to do it with a different app?
I don't know the answer to this at all. I know with a pc, you can attach to a USB cable and the camera acts like any other data source. However, my phone doesn't seem to work like this with usb and the R5. I think you can call Canon and maybe they know something.
 
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Do you want to show them the picture as soon as you have taken it, or can this be done after the shoot? If not, you can get Apple‘s SD-Card adapter, import the photos directly into Lr on the iPad and rate them there. It might sound like a fuss, but it doesn‘t take too much time, for me at least.
 
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