I'm curious to see how the iPad comes together with photo management. The retina display makes photos gorgeous to explore. And you've got iPhoto now.
The big problem is the workflow sucks – importing images to the iPad from an SD card can be pretty slow. And fiddly, since you need to hold onto an adaptor. Wonder if there's an iOS client for any of those WiFi-enabled SD cards. Wouldn't help with speed but maybe the ease-of-use would make up for that.
I'm with you - I'm an amateur shutterbug with about 100K photos in Aperture, and my house was recently burglarized - they got my EOS7D and a bunch of glass. I promised myself I would _not_ purchase a new camera until I could get something directly onto my iPad. I went to London a couple weeks ago with my (ancient) EOS-10D that the burglars couldn't be bothered to take, and I found, that even though I had a zoom 28-135 + fully charged EOS 10D with the Lens cap off in my hand - most of the pictures I took where with the iPhone 4S. I knew that they would seamlessly get into my photostream, and editing/sharing them into path could be done realtime.
Part of the "Post PC" era, that I'm starting to grok, is also entering the "Cloud" era. Data that is not connected, or highly mobile, is much, much less valuable in that world than it used to be.
Huge (HUGE!) opportunity for an SLR with dead simple and fast streaming into the cloud/photostream/iPad.
The big problem is the workflow sucks – importing images to the iPad from an SD card can be pretty slow. And fiddly, since you need to hold onto an adaptor. Wonder if there's an iOS client for any of those WiFi-enabled SD cards. Wouldn't help with speed but maybe the ease-of-use would make up for that.