D700 connected to iPad/iPhone?

[HiRez]

Hi, just trying to think of lightweight alternate backup methods on the road...the iPad has a camera connection kit accessory which basically gives you a USB port (or SD slot, but that does me no good). Can you connect the D700 directly to the iPad through it, or do you need a CF card reader?

And would this accessory also work with the iPhone? A 32GB iPhone (and probably 64 GB not far away) could make a great lightweight photo backup. Since the D700 only holds a single card, I'm a little paranoid about it.

 

[michaeladawson]

Hi, just trying to think of lightweight alternate backup methods on the road...the iPad has a camera connection kit accessory which basically gives you a USB port (or SD slot, but that does me no good). Can you connect the D700 directly to the iPad through it, or do you need a CF card reader?

The camera connects directly to the iPad through the camera connection kit. You can also use a card reader.

And would this accessory also work with the iPhone? A 32GB iPhone (and probably 64 GB not far away) could make a great lightweight photo backup. Since the D700 only holds a single card, I'm a little paranoid about it.

Last I tried the camera connection kit does not work with an iPhone. That was with the previous iPhone gen. I don't ruining works with the iPhone 4 but I haven't tried.

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Mike Dawson

 

[Oscarroos]

I download my photos from my D700 to my IPad using the IPad Photo device and my Camera supplied cable. Works fine. I am impressed how good my photos look on my IPad. Maybe I'm better than I thought

Hi, just trying to think of lightweight alternate backup methods on the road...the iPad has a camera connection kit accessory which basically gives you a USB port (or SD slot, but that does me no good). Can you connect the D700 directly to the iPad through it, or do you need a CF card reader?

And would this accessory also work with the iPhone? A 32GB iPhone (and probably 64 GB not far away) could make a great lightweight photo backup. Since the D700 only holds a single card, I'm a little paranoid about it.

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[The Photo Ninja]

Have you tried it with a compact flash reader?

Are you using iOS 4.2? I've read it causes the camera connection kit to not work properly.

 

[deang001]

I download my photos from my D700 to my IPad using the IPad Photo device and my Camera supplied cable. Works fine. I am impressed how good my photos look on my IPad. Maybe I'm better than I thought

Does it download NEF's or just jpeg?

 

[Lihkin]

You can use an eye-fi card in a CF card holder in your D700 and then buy an app on iTunes called 'Shuttersnitch' that will let you transfer files from your camera wirelessly to the iPad. It's pretty cool.

There was some post in these forums that talks about doing it without the need for an intermediate wifi router.

Cheers,
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Nikhil
http://www.lihkin.net

 

[rrdiaz30]

You can use an eye-fi card in a CF card holder in your D700 and then buy an app on iTunes called 'Shuttersnitch' that will let you transfer files from your camera wirelessly to the iPad. It's pretty cool.

Cheers,
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Nikhil
http://www.lihkin.net

The CF to SD converter cards are type II. The D700 only accepts type I cards, so the eye-fi card will not work in a D700. I would love to have a CF eye-fi card!

Rick

 

[trend1]

I download my photos from my D700 to my IPad using the IPad Photo device and my Camera supplied cable. Works fine. I am impressed how good my photos look on my IPad. Maybe I'm better than I thought

Does it download NEF's or just jpeg?

It will display your RAW files on the ipad!

 

[Alex Yau]

It works flawlessly connecting direct to the cam. I did that during my recent trip. Get the biggest iPad possible. It's great for viewing too. Raw or jpeg no issue whatsoever.

The camera connection kit does not work with iPhone. Take note.

Cheers,
Alex

 

[ArthurRau]

I've thought about doing this with my ipad and the raw files from my D700. When I import the files from the ipad back to my computer into aperture 3, does it keep the files exactly the same as if I had transferred them directly from the camera to the computer in the first place? In other words, the ipad doesn't change the files in anyway?

 

[Alex Yau]

Yes, it takes in and throws out as it is. No mod at all.
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Cheers,
Alex

 

[Simon21]

I bought the "connection kit" 2 small pieces of non intelligent hardware for $30...

The one allowing you to connect your camera is just an interface between the proprietary Apple interface to USB (it provides a female USP port.) The other one also plugs in the iPad port and has an interface for an SD (SDHC...) card. $30 for that, well if dummies like me buy it, why not?

Then you can import the pictures. However, if you use the card reader and if you have multiple folders on the card it will only import the contents of the DCIM folder. Furthermore, if you have modified the names of the pictures, making them longer than 8 characters it will ignore them... And then I still have not found a way of identifying a specific picture, mine are all in the "photo" entity with no "name" attached to it.

In my case I am very sorry I spent the money for the iPad, especially since one of the reasons was to use it to save the pictures when I travel... not very efficient and $600 plus taxes for 32GB is a ripoff... I will keep taking my netbook (faster, 250GB and more flexibility...) I wish I had waited for the new tablets coming out.

 

[tarnish]

Some people are using CF cards that have more capacity! Yes, many people could manage one to three card downloads, good for a weekend trip or a small paying gig, but not, say, that trip to Africa.

If I was really buying a backup solution it would have 0.5 TB or more. You can get that today with more compact devices, which also makes sense. iPads aren't compatible with a lot of camera bags.

While the iPad display is extremely nice and I love ours, I'm unimpressed with the sluggish standard viewer software. I haven't yet explored 3rd party solutions and I expect that there ought to be some joy lurking there by now. I think of the iPad as being a superlative hardware basis to present pre-selected images.

 

[Jrobe]

I suspect not but if you could use the ipad connector with the USB port to then transfer pictures from the ipad's flash memory to an external HD, it would be a more useful device for photography.

In fact, I don't thnk I would buy one untill this is possible.

 

[elise soussana]

Can I connect the D700 to the ipad while I'm taking the picture via the Video cable?

 

[Peter Budd]

yes you can use with an external hard drive but you have to jailbreak it.

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Peter
GMT

 

[chromalighting]

To echo the point made by Simon21, I have an iPad, and it's a great piece of kit, but for cheap back up on your travels, you could buy a basic netbook with far greater capacity and the ability to run more complex editing programs for less than half the cost. It just won't be as cool!
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Faugh A Ballagh

 

[HiRez]

So it can view NEF files in the Photo app? I can see the iPad being really useful for initial sorting and rejecting.

And too bad the iPhone and iPod Touch don't support the camera connection kit. I don't see why they couldn't, it's the same connector, same OS. Should be 64 GB iPhones and 128 GB iPod Touches out soon. 128 GB is enough for over 3,000 14-bit NEFs...in your pocket.

 

[rrdiaz30]

Has anyone seen or used blueSLR? Link to the product. http://usd.blueslr.com/

Rick

 

[SiPat]

Just updated my nephew's iPad from 3.2 to the latest firmware (4.2.1) and tried Apple Camera Connection Kit on D40 and D700 -- both showed up and transferred images across, even D700 14-bit RAW files.