Reviews for Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit

SD card reader work great as does the USB. Great product and price.

I bought this over a year ago to transfer photos from my Nikon DSLR to my iPad 1 and it worked great. It's so small that it fits in a pocket on my camera strap! I love being able to view all my new photos on the larger screen without having to be attached to a computer or TV.

Now I have an iPad 3 and it's even better! Much faster and with a lot better picture. I haven't used the USB adapter, but I've never had any problems with the SD reader.

I was also worried about whether I should purchase this, due to the bad reviews, but after reading the post from "Balazs L" from Seattle, I decided to pull the trigger. I tested it on the Canon 20D (in Menu -> Communication -> PTP mode) and Canon PowerShot SD780 IS and the new iPad and it works flawlessly. Each camera was connected directly to the new iPad and I did not use a card reader. Great product and I will not be taking my Macbook Pro on vacation; just the cameras and the new iPad.

I purchased this product from a bestbuy and it worked flawlessly. Tried both attachments with my Canon powershot A2000 iS and everything loaded right up on my iPad2. Including videos I shot with my camera. Great product.

Just thought i would say i have a Canon - EOS Digital Rebel T3 12.2-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera and i just bought the camera connection kit and it would awesome! No problems I love it.

I bought the camera connector kit as soon as it was available for my iPad 1, and it worked perfectly as I spent 3 weeks in 2010 traveling from Rome to deep Sicily and back with my D300. I didn't trust it was storing files as NEFs, but it was - and with Photogene, I was editing and emailing back great images. Now I have an iPad 3 and a Nikon D7000, and it does fabulous job of transferring both NEF and MOV videos to my new marvel.

I am using this with a 3rd generation iPad and my Canon EOS Rebel XSi, connected via USB. It works great! My SanDisk Extreme III SDHC cards also work great in the card reader.

I shoot RAW photos, and I use my iPad to backup, review and select images. When I return home, I download the images from my iPad to my Mac for further editing. This all works great, the images transfer fine, and there is no loss of quality in the transfer.

The transfer speed from camera to iPad seems slightly slower than from camera to Mac, but it is very acceptable.

The higher resolution display on the 3rd generation iPad makes it perfect for previewing photos, and this kit makes it easy to do so. Highly recommended!

I shoot with a DSLR and only use the SD card reader and all seems to work just fine with my first generation iPad with 5.0 on it.

Having read a lot of reviews here, I was a little nervous about buying this item, but I live pretty close to an Apple store so it wouldn't have been a big deal had I needed to return it. I actually intended to try it right in the store so I could return it immediately if need be, but stupidly left my camera cable at home (duh). I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-T9, which uses a Memory Stick Pro Duo card, and thus needs to connect via USB. The Apple sales guy was certain that the kit would work with my particular camera, so I bought the kit and headed home.

I read the (skimpy) brochure, then plugged all the bits together -- and got a message that my device wasn't supported. I pulled everything apart, put it all together again, same thing. Had the sales guy not been so insistent that it WOULD work with a Sony Cybershot, I might have returned it immediately.

BUT - sat with camera in hand for a minute, cable still plugged in, and started exploring options on the camera. I did already have the switch correctly pushed over to the setting where it needs to be in order to transfer pix to a computer. I hit the Menu button, and was given the choice of USB Connect or Folder. I selected USB Connect. I then was given the choice of PictBridge, PTP, Mass Storage, or Auto.

Given that the little brochure said this item works with cameras that support Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP), it seemed like a no-brainer to select PTP. As soon as I did that -- everything woke up, and thumbnails of all my photos started appearing on my iPad.

Mindful of folks who said their connection kit worked once but not subsequently, I've hooked it up and unhooked it a few times. As long as I have my camera set to USB Connect - PTP, my iPad recognizes the camera, without fail.

The other options for USB Connect on my camera are PictBridge, Mass Storage, and Auto. Auto and Mass Storage result in an error message on the iPad saying the device isn't supported. BUT - Everything works perfectly when I set the camera to PictBridge or PTP.

I read a bunch of the most recent review of this kit and didn't see any mention of this kind of tweak to the camera settings as a solution. I'm willing to bet that many users who are getting the unsupported device error would find their problem solved if they checked their camera settings, as I did.

If u snowboard or do any kind of "extreme" sport, chances are u own a go pro. With this lil unti u can instantly watch ur vids on the ipad, or even store movies on a sd card so u dont waste space on ur pad!!!! Soooo handy. Better than bringin u laptop around with u everywhere : )
Kudos apple, job very well done