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The Dawn of a New Era in Photography

On October 19, 2011, Ren Ng and his team at Lytro ushered in a new era in photography with the introduction of the Lytro Light Field Camera. What’s so revolutionary? The fact that you can refocus the picture AFTER you’ve taken it. If you visit the Picture Gallery page on the Lytro website you can…

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E-bikeNovember 17, 2011 - 5:35 pm

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[...] what if we go a step further? Readers of my blog will remember my recent post on the Lytro light field camera. Elsewhere we read of flexible displays, displays that are as thin as a piece of card. So where [...]

Mother’s Day

After some false starts I’ve re-commenced scanning my Mother’s old Kodachrome slides – images taken in the 60′s and 70′s with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera that I previously blogged about here. In between I’ve had numerous hardware and software issues with my PC, most recently a boot sector virus that prompted me to through…

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iPad Camera Connection Kit and CF cards

Back on December 19 of last year I was lamenting the changes in iPad iOS 4.2 that lowered the power to the power to the iPad 30-pin connector resulting in an inability to download CF cards to the iPad through a card reader. The reduction in power from 100 mA to 20 mA meant that…

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Eric SealeJuly 16, 2011 - 11:56 am

Thanks a mint for this post, it’ll be very useful on my travels! Now it’s off to Amazon…

More iPad woes – ‘Cannot Use Device’

Hey iPad Camera Connection Kit Users – been seeing this screen lately? I wrote in an earlier post back in May of my experiences uploading images from a CF card via the USB connector in the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. The card reader I was using at the time was an old USB 1.1…

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AlbertMarch 19, 2011 - 3:19 am

Well, I reached this article for the same issue. But honestly, the most interesting part is your tweet, which i accidentally read while reading this article!
At the same time, I can see this http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13203099 says they haven’t fixed anything yet.
So, could you please give us more details? Did they really fix it or you just tried couple of new things?

1 more thing, if I am going to use the camera USB cable all the time, would that really work without a problem with the iPad? using canon 7D, or sometimes Sony alpha200 ?

Richard DavisMarch 20, 2011 - 10:32 pm

Hi Albert,

I just got back from Florida, read your comment, and did some investigating. I’ll blog the results of that later in the week but it seems that my success is due to my card reader (see the Gear section in my Bookstore (http://astore.amazon.com/richarddavisp-20)

This reader, alone among all my CF car readers, will read a CF card to my iPad running iOS Version 4.3 (8F190). What’s more intriguing is that this card reader will also allow an series one iPad running iOS 4.2.1 (8C148) to read photos off a CF card.

Also now, both the above iOS versions will read SD cards.

If you connect your 7D via a USB cable from the micro-USB on the camera to a standard USB on the iPad camera connector kit USB connector, turn the camera on and plug the camera connector into the iPad port, then the iPad will be read the images off the card. In this scenario, the power for the transfer is being provided by the 7D, not the iPad.

Vicki MarshallJuly 12, 2011 - 8:53 pm

I am also having the same problems trying to copy some home videos to my iPad. I get the “requires too much power” message. I originally purchased the card connection device via eBay and couldn’t transfer, then was told to get the proper Apple connection devices for the SD card and the USB connections, which I did, and they still don’t work.

With my LAY brain on these things,,…..how do I get the videos to the iPad? I tried copying one jpg picture and got the same message so it wasn’t necessarily the size that was too much.

I am at a loss how to achieve this. If anyone can help me further I would love to hear from you. I have the origianl iPad with version 4.2 and know/knew nothing about the power outlet and 30 pin xxxxxxx – its all double dutch to me.

Vicki

Richard DavisJuly 14, 2011 - 8:24 pm

Hi Vicki,

If you’re still getting the “requires too much power” error with the apple SD card reader then I think the only safe way out is to connect the USB connector to your iPad and then use a USB cable to connect your camera to the apple USB connector and use the power of the camera to push the file to the iPad rather than relying on the power of the iPad to pull the file in from the card. Does this make sense to you? Only downside is that while the camera is connected to your iPad you can’t really use it to take more pictures/videos.

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Thanksgiving 2010

Once again I’m traveling and once again I’m relying on my iPad. Following a conversation with David Ziser I purchased a Delkin Devices card reader to transfer files from my camera to my iPad. When I used it a week ago I got a good transfer rate transferring images from my CF card. Today, with…

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Migrecover

So this is the only Mig I could find in my archives – a Mig 17A on display at the The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler, GA, just west of Savannah. But this post has nothing to do cold war era Soviet fighter planes, this post is about MigRecover, a utility for recovering…

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Elektrische ZahnbuersteDecember 1, 2011 - 10:24 am

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iPad Camera Connection Kit

My iPad Camera Connection Kit, like the other peripherals I ordered, arrived before my iPad. Having received my iPad last Friday I’ve been able to spend a few brief moments getting to know it. This evening I decided to try the iPad Camera Connection Kit. I had wanted this kit as my thought had been…

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katjaAugust 8, 2011 - 6:24 pm

But the question remains: why can’t we connect the EPSON to the iPad and browse directly on the P5000 with a display on the ipad? We could then see on a larger screen what’s on the small P5000 screen, no?

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