Camera connector to load photos on iPad - will they display camera RAW file

Other uses have said that the iPad will not display RAW files. However, usually there is an imbedded jpg file that is display on the iPad. When you sync your iPad to you computer the RAW file wis synced back to your computer.

When you import an image, may it be RAW or JPG it will create an optimized JPG version that it will display in the Photos app. When you sync to the computer it will copy the real RAW or JPG images over instead. This preserves EXIF data of the images as well. Some apps allow you to access the full sized RAW or JPG to upload or edit. One that I know works is FTP-on-the-Go, it will allow you to view and upload the full sized images to an FTP server and preserve the EXIF data there as well.

The files will show up. I tried it myself with Nikon's .NEF files. The iPad's photo app will not process the actual raw data, but rather use the embedded preview image, just as your camera does when you look at a photo on the LCD of your camera. Every raw file has an embedded preview image in JPG format, and that's what the photo app will see.