Camera connection kit - Write to card?

Would the following work with an iPad and the Camera Connection kit?
1. Connect an SD Card or Compact flash card with RAW files from a camera.
2. Import all the images from the card to the iPad.
3. Delete bad images on the iPad.
4. Export the remaining (good) images as backup to another SD Card or Compact Flash card, in case the iPad gets lost?
5. Three weeks later when you get back home, transfer all the good files to a desktop for normal processing.

It remains to be completely clarified exactly what can be done, but after import you can delete photos - not that that's a great idea - on the card.
That means that some "write" are allowed - that is write to the file system structures to delete the photos.
Is this a privilege available only to the Photo App??
I don;t think that general writing is allowed. In part becasue it balks at a thumb drive - not supported. (Though I haven't yet tried to make a thumb drive look like - i.e. have same directory structure as a SD/CF card.)
I expect to look into this from a programming point of view, but not for a while - got shooting gigs to do first.
Photography isn't why I got an iPad, but it would eb neat if it could replace the Mac Book I use in the field.
For me writing back to an external drive is important for backup.
When in the field with my MacBook I:
Upload the images, delete obvious duds, rename them and add metadata.
Then back up to 2 external drives.
Put CF cards back in Camera and format and start shooting again.
Steve

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Is it an SD, SDHC or SDXC card and what size.? The iPad won't read SDXC cards or cards over 32GB. The usual format is FAT32 (and not ExFAT). Use your camera to format, or your computer.
 Cheers, Tom

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I received the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit as a gift for Christmas. Placing an SD card in the device and inserting it into the iPad, I am shortly presented the option of copying the images to the iPad. Worked fine EXCEPT that I told it to NOT erase the original images. This was apparently understood by the application. After it completed, I exited the applcation, wait a few seconds and then remove the adapter. I then put the SD card back into my camera and it now says the 'card is not formatted ... format yes or no'. I deliberately selected to NOT delete the iamges as I wanted to save the EXIF information. Telling the camera to NOT accept the card, it promptly powers off. If I tell it to format the card, it is now totally blank.
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I strongly request that Apple update the appropriate software to fix this issue. On the off chance that there is a setting somewhere that I missed, I'm posting this as a question.

This is an iPad user to user forum. Apple doesn't read or respond.
I've used the camera connection kit many times and never hd this problem. Nor have I ever seen this problem posted here before. It must have been something you did and not the iPad or its software.
Send feedback to Apple.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
 Cheers, Tom

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Do they make a camera connection kit or sd card reader for 4th gen touch

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The only thing you could also try is backup the iPad, restoring it as new and try again to connect it, just to make sure the issue isn't at the iPad.
You could use this article for this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
Since the iPad doesn't have charging issues though, I don't expect this to have any effect, but you could try it.

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Can I only use my USB camer connective kit with my camera and not a card reader?

Which card reader? Are you using an SD card in it or some other form factor?
As long as you're targeting an SD card with photos or movies, it should work same as connecting to a camera....but in that case, there is really no need since the camera kit includes an SD reader.

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I am travelling around and the camera connection kit has been working well for importing pics from my SD cards. However one day the import warned me I was importing 1gb of pics, but only had 0.7gb free on the iPad. It asked me whether to import until the iPad was full, so I said yes.
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I tried powering down several times. I have also done the reset you suggested. Unfortunately the problem remains.
As I am travelling, I am not in a position to do a sync. Both the iPad's "About" and an iPad info app I have report 7.5gb free.
I wonder if there is a utility that can truly free the space (assuming that is the problem)?

TS1315 I have just purchased the new iPad with the camera connection kit. I just want to bewant to be able to insert my SD card into the Pad and only view my photos, not import them to the pad. Can this be done and how do I do this. Please advise. Thaj

I have just purchased the new iPad with the camera connection kit. I just want to be able insert my SD card into the Pad and view my photos, not import them.Can this be done and how? Please advise. Thank you.

See this article: iPad: Using the iPad Camera Connection Kit
No, this canot be done, afaik. When your camera or card is connected, you will see the thumbnails in the camera pane, but not full size preview. So to browse your photos on the iPad you will need to import them to your camera roll. But you need not delete them from the camera or card after importing, so you might simply import selected photos to your camera roll from the camera grid and then delete them again from the camera roll after importing and browsing, without removing them from the card/camera.
Regards
Léonie

I have an ipad that has photos on it, and am trying to get those photos to an SDHC card. I put the card in my camera connection kit device and went to the slideshow option and selected copy and nothing happened. Am I using the wrong method?

I am trying to get photos from a friends i pad to mine so that I can make a slide show for him. I tried using my i pad camera connection kit with a SDHC card in it and followed the instructions in the manual. I got to the part where it had me select COPY from the drop down menu. When I did that nothing happened. Can this be done at all?

only option is to download an app for bluetooth transfer which may be quite slow, checkout 'Bump' or search for photo transfer or similar.

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HT4101 I have a NIKON COOLPIX P500 but am unable to download photos through the IPad camera connection kit. I have tried to use the Sandisk card also - no result. Any suggestions? The Ipad does not "see" the card or camera?

I have a Nikon Coolpix P500 but am unable to download photos from it to my iPad2 via the iPad Camera Connection kit. The iPad does not see either the Sandisk 8GB card or the Nikon camera. I have turned the camera on, but it seems that the camera just want to recharge its battery through the iPad as the iPad states that the devices draws too much power?? Anybodu solved this problem yet? Advise please?

One thing to check is the format that the camera is saving pics to the card in. Many are selectable and, in most cases, if PTP is one of the options then you need to have that one selected for the files to be visible to iOS and the CCK (connection kit).
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HT4106 Cannot read the connected storage media error comes when I connect my SDHC card using apple camera connection kit

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No, it only supports the copying of photos and videos to the Photos app on the iPad, not from the iPad. You can copy photos that you've copied to the iPad via the kit to your computer : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083

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