iPad Received iPad Camera Kit

[badgoodDeb]

The manual wants you to only import photos from a camera. This technique is side-stepping that requirement!

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by The Old Man

That did it! Thank you.
How come the small manual that came with the device doesn't tell you that?
Or is that something everyone knows except a dummy like me?

the DCIM (Digital Camera IMages) is a spec manufacturers came up with a few years back so that you could take a card from camera to camera and they would be organized in a semi-standard fashion. the photos app only knows to scan that directory for any of it's supported file types (.jpg and .raw work, .pdf doesn't).

dropping your own pictures in there is a "cheat". the ipad doesn't know they didn't come from a camera over your desktop. on the other hand, anything not in that directory is safe from being scanned. while sub-directories are scanned for files, the directory structure is not preserved, so save yourself the hassle from organizing them on the card only to have it ignored.

it was mentioned in my mini-review on the first page, under "Unsupported Devices".

[The Old Man]

Thank you That clears that up. I have also now imported videos from a flash drive.

[scottjl]

wow.. if i had known i could unload mine for 4x the price i might not have opened the box!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/i...fetches-100-o/

[Fotoman]

I'm still waiting for mine which will ship sometime around the 7th of June.

Is there a list somewhere of raw files it supports? My camera is relatively new (Canon 7D) and there's usually some delay before many programs will support the slightly different raw formats each DSLR brings with it.

[Trubu]

:I got mine last week - turned out to be kind of a bummer, actually. I mostly wanted it to be able to carry around a bigger assortment of movies than the iPad will hold. But, it doesn't recognize my self-powered USB drive as a valid import location, even with the DCIM trick, and importing videos from an SD card only seems to work if the movies are fairly short. Office Space came over fine, but Sherlock Holmes and several other movies with 2+ hour running times didn't. The import would start, but then silently fail after 30 seconds or so. Not sure if it's running time, file size or something else that it's choking on.

Does work fine for photos, so I guess that's something.

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by Trubu

:I got mine last week - turned out to be kind of a bummer, actually. I mostly wanted it to be able to carry around a bigger assortment of movies than the iPad will hold. But, it doesn't recognize my self-powered USB drive as a valid import location, even with the DCIM trick, and importing videos from an SD card only seems to work if the movies are fairly short. Office Space came over fine, but Sherlock Holmes and several other movies with 2+ hour running times didn't. The import would start, but then silently fail after 30 seconds or so. Not sure if it's running time, file size or something else that it's choking on.

Does work fine for photos, so I guess that's something.

You can play videos from a stick or usb drive you do need to jailbreak though, then download the free ifile app and use that to navigate to your sdcard or memory stick and the film will then open in movies just fine.it's ace. Also you don't need to actually import them to the pad they play straight from the stick/ sd card