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Connecting Digital Camera to iPad

I connected my digital camera, Fuji F30, to my new, 3rd gen, iPad and nothing happens. I mean nothing. iPad Photo does not open and if I launch it manually there is nothing showing in Photo either.

I also tried connecting a flash drive, SanDisk, with pictures I downloaded from the camera, and got a message that said 'CANNOT USE DEVICE. The connected USB device requires too much power'

Any idea what the problem is? The photos on the flash drive were in a folder called DCIM and the flash drive is formatted 'Mac OS extended (Journaled)

Thanks

Posted on Apr 6, 2012 2:15 PM

23 replies

Ralph9430

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Apr 10, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Douglas

I'm presuming that you connected your camera to the Camera Connection Kit from Apple.

Did you turn your camera on after connecting it?

Douglas Author

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Apr 10, 2012 12:06 PM in response to Ralph9430

I've owned Mac products and worked with computers since 1985. Of course I turned on the camera just like I do when I download pictures to my computer.

sam@bac

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May 25, 2012 8:05 AM in response to Douglas

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem trying to connect my Canon 300HS. Have tried rebooting both the camera and the new iPad. Anything I can do to avoid the genius bar?

Fred-M-

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May 25, 2012 3:33 PM in response to sam@bac

Sam-

Look in your Camera's setup menus to see if there is an option for charging its battery from a computer's USB port. If you find it and turn off that feature, it should reduce the current required from the iPad.

Others have mentioned that here, but I can not find a reference to the exact menu entry.

Fred

Jul 19, 2012 5:35 PM in response to Douglas

You people are clueless about the USB flash drives... Apple changed the allowed output from the port on iPad not to save battery life, but to prevent people who jailbroke to use flash drives with the camera kit for movies, music, etc... As far as the camera, Fred has a great point. Also, try having the kit in the iPad, and camera turned on before connecting the camera via USB. If you look at all4cellular they may have 5 in 1 kits for around 5 bucks, i got one and it works fine, takes a few types of media cards and has usb as well. Hope this helps.

jyargeau

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Jul 20, 2012 7:24 AM in response to Douglas

If you have the camera connection kit, why not just take the sd card from your camera and insert that into the sd slot of the camera connection kit, thus avoiding the problem with the flash drive power issue.

Jul 20, 2012 7:44 AM in response to jyargeau

The Fuji F30 camera Douglas has does not use SD cards - so he can't do that.

LiShotYa

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Aug 18, 2012 3:53 PM in response to lobsterghost1

Once I finally got the ipad to recognize that there was a CCK plugged into it (which took some finagling but my husband's magic hands inserted it just right and the photo app opened) it said "no photos to import" although I knew for certain that there were about 20 pics (nikon .NEF and .jpg) on the SD card, all of the pics had been renamed on my computer for me to easily organize them (i.e basketball1.jpg). I renamed the pictures to this 8 digit format and VOILA! worked perfectly.

Connecting Digital Camera to iPad