Questions & Answers for Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit

I hasten to add that I won't have my ipad and connection kit for just under 2 weeks but as a fellow UK photographer here is how I'm thinking just now.

1) For a 5d I'm assuming you are using UDMA CF cards. That means to connect you will use a direct connection via the USB adapter.

2) It is known that USB headphone/microphone set can be successfully connected to the USB adapter, as can a USB keyboard.

3) It is known that the USB adapter won't recognise external drives, only cameras. It might be that all external drives tested were USB bus powered and it might work with an external powered drive, we'll have to see.

4) It is known that while you can copy images and videos from the SD card reader to the iPad, you can't copy them from the iPad to the SD card reader.

5) It is known that the iPad shows reasonable images with Canon and Nikon raw files but terrible images with Leica DNG files which hold much smaller previews. This indicates that the iPad is not really reading the raw file but the jpeg previews inside the file package. Leica users are getting round that issue by shooting DNG+Jpeg and then the iPad works on the jpeg instead of the DNG file.

As such, right now, I think the answer is that you will still need the laptop for in-field editing unless you restrict your workflow to jpegs. However I'd expect that the demand for a fully raw capable iPad app will be high from photographers and if it doesn't appear in the form of an app with this itteration of the iPad, I'd think it will with a more powerfull 2nd generation iPad.

• Answered by Anonymous A
• 18/05/2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (can ipad/ipad camera connection kit be a good alternative to using a laptop on photoshoots)

Well I just bought the camera adapter kit and found that it does not work as a portal for a USB audio interface. For one the Apogee One draws too much current for the Ipad, and even when I powered the interface from a powered USB hub the iPad did not utilize the apogees mic or headphone Jack.
This configuration may be possible but Apple would have to develop it and I won't hold my breath as Professional Musicians make up a small part of their demographic.
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• Answered by Anonymous A from Xxxxxxxx
• 27/04/2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can you use this connector to connect a class compliant USB audio interface to the IPAD?)

Yes. When you connect your device to the ipad the photos app opens and you upload them by either copy and paste or going through the options menu and pressing a button that will say something like 'UPLOAD'.

• Answered by Arian P
• 31/10/2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can i upload pictures to the web without importing and storing on the ipad first?)

This is the critical question for photographers hoping to use the iPad to backup pictures when they are in the field and prior to getting back to their computers. No one appears to know and Apple has not stated it will import pictures without resizing (read dramatically reducing photo size/resolution) it to optimize viewing on the iPad. We know the iPhone resizes pictures and the iPad is using the same OS, so I am not hopeful full resolution will be maintained.

• Answered by Aditya R from Livingston
• 17/04/2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (When the pictures are imported, are they optimized (ie. reduced in size) or imported in full size?)

No you can not do this with out an app

• Answered by Anonymous A
• 13/09/2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Are you able to connect a broadband usb device into the connection kit and receive 3G signal if you don't have a 3G model or don't want to use ATT?)