Comments on: iPad Camera Connection Kit Review

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:01:54 +0000

I purchased a iPad camera connection kit however my fujifilm xD picture card will not fit into the iPad card reader adapter. What can I do transfer photos from my camera to the iPad ? Thanks

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:16:02 +0000

Depends on the videos. Why not try it?

By: Sharad

Sharad — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:48:36 +0000

I shot 640×480 30fps video with canon ixus 100IS. The video directly plays in when imported in ipad with the camera connection kit.

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:33:23 +0000

Thanks–great overview of the iPad camera connection kit. Just bought the kit, having realized that I could use/should have been using this as a back-up when traveling.

Randy Slaton
Honolulu

By: John Ade

John Ade — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:01:38 +0000

Terry,
I want to buy a 32GB Sd card; connect to my PC and copy .mp4 videos on it; and then plug the SD card into the iPad camera connection kit. Do you think the iPad will import my videos?

Thanks

By: Robin Bourbonnais

Robin Bourbonnais — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:36:50 +0000

I just got a CyberPower Mobile Battery Powered 4-Port USB Hub (CP-H420MP).
http://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-Mobile-Battery-Powered-CP-H420MP/dp/B0002UQALQ
I put in 4 charged AAA batteries and plugged the powered hup into the USB Camera Connection kit, Plugged a PocketPro CF reader from Calumet with an 8GB high speed 45MB/s SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash card in it. With the batteries turned off, switch in down position, I got the device drawing too much power error. With the batteries turned on, switch in up position, the iPad reads the card AOK.
Note: This was my first test and it may be a while til I do more testing because I am using Eye-Fi and Shutter Snitch most of the time to transfer images.
Robin

By: Duy Nguyen

Duy Nguyen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:46:26 +0000

Actually, you can use the iPad Camera Connection Kit and turn it into the USB mass storage if your iPad is jailbroken. The only thing you can do is : install iFile for iPad in Cydia, then launch iFile, plug in your USB Connection Kit with a USB, there you are… iFiles recognize your USB as a mass storage! Interesting ?

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:34:26 +0000

Yes, faster cards draw more power.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:11:46 +0000

Connector kit doesn’t work for me , it’s says attached accessory uses too much power, I shot 400 raw files. Does anyone know what gives? thats with the compact flash card attached.

By: Canon 7D, CCK and the iPad | The Midi Thief

Canon 7D, CCK and the iPad | The Midi Thief — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:50:37 +0000

[...] wont fit in the CCK’s reader unit. I read a couple of threads on the internet (MacRumors and Terry White’s tech blog) which stated that it’s possible if you use a USB card reader in between. I already have a [...]

By: The iPad just became a must have : 604mac

The iPad just became a must have : 604mac — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:33:10 +0000

[...] out the video at Terry’s site while I go put a few more dollars in my piggy [...]

By: Didit Mehta Pariadi

Didit Mehta Pariadi — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:26:10 +0000

it does read RAW from canon 5D and canon S90 (tried and succeeded). However due to the nature of RAW format, this doesn’t guarantee it will read RAW from all kind of cameras.

By: Didit Mehta Pariadi

Didit Mehta Pariadi — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:23:59 +0000

tried connect device to ipod touch 3rdGen, it didn’t work due to unknown device to ipod touch.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:43:27 +0000

My camera connection kit with my sandisk card reader fried 2 16G CF card (1 Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s 16G and 1 Sandisk Ultra 30MB/s 16G). And I have a pair of 8G too and they’ve no problem, this makes me think that anything ABOVE 8G might be damage in this file transfer operation. (lucky all sandisk I bought have 5 years warrenty, but unlucky is pictures inside are GONE )

Both CF cards was fried when sudden in the middle of the transfer operation.

And I’ve search the internet and some tech people said this is a CAMERA connection kit, and APPLE suggested the USB kit was to connect to a CAMERA not a card reader. as people said new LARGE size CF card is power thirst, and since most card reader doesn’t provide any power and mainly rely on the USB power source. The lack of power will ended damaging these power 16G card.

By: Robin Bourbonnais

Robin Bourbonnais — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:55:10 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for all the information on adapting Compact Flash cards to the iPad camera kit.
I did some testing of my own and it turns out that different CARDS draw a different amount of power from the iPad.

I was able to plug two USB readers, one from Calumet and the other from Dazzle, without a CF card in them and didn’t get the too much power error.
Next, I tested my older 2GB Sandisk Extreme III cards with both devices plugged into the USB camera kit and the iPad can read images off of them AOK.

I also tested the 4GB Sandisk Extreme III cards with both devices and found that the older ones work AOK, but the new faster ones marked with 30MB/s on the front gave the too much power error message.

I tested the 8GB and 16GB ExtremeIV marked with 45MB/s and both gave the too much power error.

So, it seems that the gating issue is the cards themselves, rather then the reader they are plugged into and in this case older slower memory cards appear to be better then the newer high speed ones.

Robin