Must have to transfer photos to the ipad in order to view them?  Or can I view them externally?

I would like to view photos externally from something such as an SD card, rather than first transferring them to the Ipad.  Is this possible?

There is a camera connection kit which has an SD card reader for copying photos to the iPad, but that will only show the thumbnails of the photos on the card, you need to select and copy them to the iPad before you can see them full-screen.
And if you are copying the photos onto the SD card from your computer (as opposed to it coming direct from a camera) then you need to create a DCIM directory off the root of the card, with the photos underneath it, and the photo filenames need to be exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension i.e. in a similar format as if a camera had created/written them

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