Chuck - the iPhone/iPad camera connection adaptor has been available for
quite a long while, but don't even imagine that because it has a USB socket
that it will allow you to hook up an external harddisk! It's for hooking up
USB-camera connections so that other than SD cards are supported.
There are some solutions for external drives, but they are either based on
wifo or are complete / proprietary solutions. I have a £150 iPhone 'case'
that gives me an additional external battery and 32GB storage - provided I
address it via a specific app. (made by Mophie)
Jez
On 31 January 2016 at 00:19, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>
> On 1/30/2016 5:56 PM, Moose wrote:
>
>>
>> I have stuck to my own advice: never upgrade Windoze, but don't worry
>> when the next machine has the latest OS. I didn't quite follow that for
>> my current desktop, opting for Win7 over 8, but had a specific technical
>> reason, the XP Virtual mode in Win7 Pro. I still need that and use it a
>> lot.
>>
>
> Those who have bought new machines with Win10 installed have been fine
> except for the confusion over a new and unfamiliar system. Also, not all
> are prepared to re-install everything even if they have the source files.
> Unsupported printers have been a real problem and that doesn't matter if
> you have a new machine or an old one updated.
>
>
>> I've been paying a lot of attention lately to the specs on the iPad
>>> Pro. <http://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/technology/> In case you aren't
>>> aware yet, Adobe has freebie (limited) versions of Photoshop and
>>> Lightroom available for iOS devices (iPads & iPhones). I think
>>> they'll be released for Android devices too but think those are not
>>> yet available. I don't really know the functional limitations but
>>> suspect they'll do whatever you require for downloading and reviewing
>>> your images (including raw conversion). You'll need a special
>>> (optional $30) Apple device for using the "Lightning" connector as a
>>> USB port to read your cards. I assume (but don't know) that that same
>>> device would allow use of an external USB drive.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't checked, but that is not true of the earlier models. If Steve
>> J's demise has loosened up connectivity, that's nice, and the screen
>> looks wonderful. However, there may still be another problem
>>
>
> Yes, the connectivity situation has been changed. This is the part I was
> talking about <
> http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC531AM/A/apple-ipad-camera-connection-kit?fnode=91>
> It's a USB adapter cable and SD card reader. I'm going to try and cobble
> one together for my (new) iPhone. My iPhone's charger cord is Lightning to
> USB but the USB connector is male. I'm waiting on delivery of some USB
> gender changers and will see if I can hook up an SD card or external drive
> and see what happens. But what happens at the software interface I haven't
> a clue. I'll spend a long time in the Apple store before I ever buy an
> Apple device of any kind.
>
>
>> And there was another problem. I tried going this general route, both
>> with an Android tablet with SD card slot and with iPad and external WiFi
>> connected storage. In both cases, the hardware and WiFi connection
>> worked fine, but the software didn't. I could not, at that time, and I
>> looked seriously, find a file manager for Android or iOS that allows the
>> equivalent of clicking on one file, then Shift-clicking on another
>> somewhere else on the list, to select them and everything in between. It
>> was only select all or select individually. This is a tremendous pain in
>> use for daily back-up copying to external media. I tried it, and
>> couldn't stand it; painfully tedious. If one were to erase/format the
>> card after each download, it would work fine, but I'm not interested in
>> foregoing that extra copy of temp. B-U.
>>
>
> As I said above, I haven't a clue about what happens at the software
> interface to any of this stuff. It may not be pretty. The info on the
> connector kit above says the Photo App will start after you download from
> your camera. I suspect that's probably not the desirable course of events
> but don't know.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
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