Why Wont My Camera Connection Kit Work on my Ipad?

I don't understand why does it have to make assumption on where the images are located? Can't it just read the entire card/drive to pull out all the supported images?

Not supporting file transfer via this kit (without jb) is already a disappointment; while barring images outside the DCIM folder is another. 😐

HenzAppleOnDesk wrote:

I don't understand why does it have to make assumption on where the images are located? Can't it just read the entire card/drive to pull out all the supported images?

The assumption is based on the DCIM defacto industry standard for digital cameras.

See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system

Almost all digital cameras conform to this standard. The Camera Connection Kit is intended for just that, connecting cameras/SD cards. It's not intended for connecting general file structures.

If you would like enhancements in this area the best place to tell Apple is at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Thank Jim in recapping the DCIM standard. I guess I will express my question over there then.

Mine SD card does have DCIM folder with two folders and pictures and movies on it. Standard .jpg files, but when pluged on SD reader shows that there's no pictures to import.

Please, any idea?

Thanks,

Fabio

What 's in that folder needs to be named XXXX0000

some combo of capitol letters and numbers, and 8 of them, no spaces or underscores.

for example, I was able to put movies on a SD card and can import them through the camera connection kit. However those movies have to be in the DCIM folder and I had to title them SAN30212 or something like that. No .jpg, no .mov, no extensions at all.

The photo import software only 'sees' 8 capitol letters and numbers.

Thank you Skydiver119,

Please, where can I find these instructions about how the files and folders must be on SD card?

I tried to look at the product description but could not find such details.

Thanks

My manual for the CC kit didn't spell it out. What I found out was through trial and error...putting files on the card, connecting it, seeing if the iPad saw it and then tweaking until I succeeded.

The presumption by Apple seems to be that it won't necessarily be people putting files, photos, videos on the card to get them to the iPad, that the iPad will simply read the files placed on the card by the camera that took the photos/videos. And since DCIM and the 8 character limit are relatively standard, that's what they went with and how they wrote the photos program to 'see' the files.

I'm not a programmer, but I'm sure the software to operate the camera connection kit tells it to look for a DCIM folder and the 8 characters name, anything outside those parameters it doesn't see.

Great Kay,

This is exactly what needs to be done. It worked for me. I created a DCIM folder on my SD card and it worked just fine. Thanks a lot.