iPad Tutorial Of The Day – 06/07/10 – Importing Photos Using The Camera Connection Kit
I am writing a great new book all about the iPad and it is so exciting but I also wanted to share some excerpts with you along the way. Take a look at this one for example, you’ve got your ‘magical device’, your iPad and you’ve taken some great photos with your camera, now you want to share your images on your iPad. This tutorial will tell you exactly how to do that.
iPad Camera Connection Kit
Firstly, you need to use the Camera Connection kit – you can buy this directly from Apple for $29 in the US or £25 in the UK. The Camera Connection Kit consists of two adapters. The one on the left in the above photograph is the USB adapter, the one on the right is the SD Card adapter. Both plug into the dock connector port on the bottom of your iPad. In this exercise I used the SD Card adapter. The USB adapter would be useful if you had a camera that stored images in a different format, for example Compact Flash, by using this adapter you will still be able to transfer the images over to your iPad.
Selection
With the SD adapter inserted into my iPad and an SD card inserted into that, the above images were immediately apparent on the iPad. You can scroll through the complete card from this step and select the images you want to import.
Import
In the above image you will see that I have selected three photos to import, you will see a blue tick next to them.
Selected Or All?
The iPad then gives you the choice of importing all of the images or only the selected ones.
Import Complete
Once the iPad has imported the images it will give you the option of deleting the images from your SD card, you can choose to Keep or Delete them.
iPhoto
When you click into iPhoto you will see the imported images under ‘last import’.
Single Image
It is then possible to examine the photo in greater detail or perhaps start a slide show.
Not Full Resolution
What I did notice was that the images do not come through at full resolution, each of these images were around 5 MB originally but after importing them to the iPad and opening them within iPhoto they were around 1.1 MB. This information tell us that the images are being optimized for the iPad screen and are really for display purposes.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
2 Comments
StOOdi
Importing RAW images is quite nice, cr2 in my case and they are imported in full size.
Dick
How do I delete large groups of photos that were directly imported from my camera. I do not want to have to scroll through them one at a time. Where do I find a “delete all” command to touch? Dick