Hi
Can I use the camera kit to connect my iPhone to my wifes ipad to load pictures direct from Iphone to iPad rather than have to get the laptop out to transfer them between them.
I bought the kit for exactly that purpose. It did not work. And Apple said that it would never work. They refunded the money and
bollocked the ' genius' that sold it to me.
If you're talking about the $30 Apple CCK, the answer is yes from my experience.
I have the $30 CCK, iPhone 4S and iPad 1 and 2, and I regularly use the CCK to transfer photos from iPhone to iPad. This is how it works:
-- I plug in the CCK to iPhone and iPad, and it automatically displays all photos from my iPhone on my iPad screen as thumbnails.
-- On iPad, it auto-prompts me to import all or some of those images. I can choose by tapping on individual photos, or import all.
-- If I choose to import all, it auto-prompts and lets me know if some of those images are already on my iPad, and asks whether I still want to import them all (creating duplicates on iPad).
-- After I'm done importing, it auto-prompts and asks whether I want to keep or delete the photo(s) from my iPhone.
-- All my newly imported photos automatically appear on iPad in the Last Import album, from which I can add it to other albums on iPad.
I've had the CCK for more than two years and have used it consistently without problem. I originally started using it to transfer photos from my iPhone 4 to iPad 1. I later added a touch 4, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, and they all work the same with the CCK.
It works great, and I prefer it over cloud synching photos, because I can easily look through all the thumbnails and choose only individual photos to synch.
The only hiccup now is that I have thousands of photos on my iPhone 4S, so it takes maybe a minute for all the thumbnails to pop up on my iPad screens, so I can begin choosing what I want to import.