iPad card reader/camera kit query

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I read recently here that OS 4.2 on the iPad rendered card reader useless due to lower voltage/power saving. Does anyone know if this is resolved with the latest release OS4.3.
I'm looking to get one for my mum, it would be great if she can use this rather than a laptop. Only thing stopping it is her being able to load photos from her camera to something.
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I've upgraded to 4.3 and the issue has not been resolved. Only workaround I can see it to use a battery powered USB hub, but that's too many cables etc for me.
 
If your mum's camera uses SD cards get her an eye-Fi card and use shutter snitch app on the iPad. I hear it works very well.
 
Many of the Belkin (powered) hubs will solve the issue, even without plugging it into power. Many of the devices are fine with iPad but the initial power surge is causing the issue.
 
If the camera uses SD cards then the camera kit still works, it's only plugging CF card readers into the USB bit of the kit that doesn't as they draw too much power, plugging my 7D into the USB still works as well. The other get 'round I use is to use an SD card in a SD-CF adaptor in the 7D and then plug the SD in deirectly to the connection kit. Note to OP to clarify in case he's not aware, the kit has two bits, one has an SD slot and one a USB port, hence the situation I outline above.
PS. EYe-fi and shutter-snitch works well as well as long as you have a WiFi network to hand, the drawback there is that you have to have a computer to register each WiFi network to the Eye-Fi card so using hotspots is a bit tricky with planning beforehand.
 
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fitzer said:
If the camera uses SD cards then the camera kit still works, it's only plugging CF card readers into the USB bit of the kit that doesn't as they draw too much power, plugging my 7D into the USB still works as well. The other get 'round I use is to use an SD card in a SD-CF adaptor in the 7D and then plug the SD in deirectly to the connection kit. Note to OP to clarify in case he's not aware, the kit has two bits, one has an SD slot and one a USB port, hence the situation I outline above.
PS. EYe-fi and shutter-snitch works well as well as long as you have a WiFi network to hand, the drawback there is that you have to have a computer to register each WiFi network to the Eye-Fi card so using hotspots is a bit tricky with planning beforehand.
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Not if you have a jailbroken iPad/iPhone. You can get get an app called PDAnet that creates a wireless hot spot on the iPad/iPhone. I use this method with my iPad and the Eye-Fi X2 Pro card. You have to have the X2 Pro card as that is the only one that will connect to an ad hoc wireless hot spot.

I can shoot with the Eye-Fi card in camera and have the images come up in shuttersnitch on the ipad (which takes about 3 seconds for full size jpeg) without using anything else. I just run PDAnet on the iPad and enable the wireless hot spot then run shuttersnitch, start shooting and the images appear on the iPad. Simple.
 
Are we talking about the official Apple card reader?
I didn't even realise 3rd party ones worked...
 
Could you use the Apple Photo connector cable? They do a USB and SD version
 
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