Ed,
I am not sure I understood your post, but here's the camera connection kit:

iPad Camera Connection Kit
The iPad Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera: using your camera’s USB cable or directly from an SD card. iPad supports standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW



I haven't seen one in person, but reading that sounds like you can put the SD card into the connector that hooks up to the iIPad.

No dock required.

It doesn't directly jack in to the camera. You jack either or one of those two things into the dock, then make the connections or insert card. There's no direct connections. You have to have the dock, too. You can direct connect to a computer and sync.

Ed

so you are saying that the picture isn't and the description isn't true?

When you say "it doesn't directly jack in to the camera", but it, do you mean the USB cord? or the Apple Camera Connector thing?

I think the confusion is "dock." That threw me at first when the iPad came out. The dock on the iPad is the port at the bottom of the device, not an extra piece of hardware. That's what I think I know, anyways.

Yeah, isn't that their standard 30 pin connector just like on the iPhone/touch/pod/etc.
All video and power and data goes thru there... so it would be a natural assumption that's where you connect.
Guess I don't understand the problem.

Ah, thanks! Now I think I understand.

Uh...so how is that such a problem?

Oops, my bad - That's what happened.

I got an iPad a while back, and played with it for a day or two, then let a friend adopt it, so forget it.

I've been playing with my girl's camera, so she can just jump right in when I present her with it. Then I was going to go to the Palo Alto store this weekend and get some iPads, along with the dock and the camera connection kit for the one daughter.

I guess I was thrown by that, too, and when you go to the online Apple Store, in the dock description they mention, ". . . it supports other iPad accessories, such as the iPad Dock Connector to VGA Cable and iPad Camera Connection Kit."

So, oops, sorry about that - I guess it's not actually 'beyond stupid'.

Oh jeeze, just remembered. I don't get to pick up iPads this weekend. I'm going down to Goleta/Santa Barbara this weekend.

They're coming up Nov 11 (when I give camera, but not iPad, which I will give for Christmas or Thanksgiving), so that only gives a few days to fly-thru a camera and iPad setup before they show up.

Well, again, sorry about that confusion.

Ed

Speaking of which
Doesn't Apple run Christmas specials like in late November? ? So maybe the longer you wait the better or is this a pipe dream.

I think they run specials on certain items, but it's not much of a savings.

Well, time is more special than anything.

Getting them before the 11th November - Absolutely have to preflight/fly-thru stuff, so it has to get done before then, as on the 11th I'll be giving my girl her new camera, so won't have that to play with anymore. Then I've got November to load the tablets up with some starter stuff. I know what my girls like, so I'll get some of their music and movies onto it. And my wife likes music, too, and would probably watch movies on an iPad at her leisure.

I guess I've got to give Apple a little more credit than assuming their deviousness. I see there's a neat little Flickr Uploader app that I would have thought they'd disallow. And I believe there's Flickr apps too for getting stuff off of Flickr onto the iPad. Those will be pretty useful as I don't want them stuck with having to sync a Mac just to get neat stuff onto the iPad or out of it. So, congratulations Apple, you done good with that. ( Although Flickr is Yahoo, and not Google ).

November is pretty busy. My stuff to do, plus they're up here for four days come the 11th, then down there five days come Thanksgiving break. So, stuff's a little tight in November.

That first reply to Yoyo was from CSU Monterey, and this one's from a few blocks up from Cannery Row. Then this evening bang out some stuff in the Valley. Kind of hectic, but it works for now. There's a happy ending to it all.

Ed