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Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter (MD821ZM/A)

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Connector Type	USB Type C
Brand	Apple
Compatible Devices	Tablet
Unit Count	1 Count

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Product Dimensions

2.64 x 0.67 x 6.1 inches

Item Weight

0.704 ounces

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B009WHV3XA

Item model number

MD821ZM/A

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1,285 ratings

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#41,937 in Computer Cables & Interconnects

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Date First Available

October 29, 2012

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Product Description

Use this adapter to import photos and videos from a digital camera to your iPad with Retina display or iPad mini with Lightning connector. The Lightning to USB Camera Adapter supports standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW, along with SD and HD video formats, including H.264 and MPEG-4.

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A Gonzales

Check online to see if the thing you want to plug in will work first

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016

Verified Purchase

There's a very specific camera/product list that this connector works for, which isn't really made clear anywhere in the product info page. There was a page inside the box after you buy it and when I tried to use it on anything else, it would say that there wasn't enough power to use it. So if you can get it to work for you, that's great! But be careful and maybe check online to see if it'll work for you first.

10 people found this helpful

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JRSIV Music Ltd.

Overpriced but works great.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016

Verified Purchase

I don't like taking chances with knockoff products with my studio and music stuff, so now that I've been using the iOS music production apps so much in my music I had to get the bonafide Apple CCK to use my interface and MIDI controller with my iPad Air 2. Yes it's about 25 bucks overpriced, it is just an adaptor, but Apple has a virtual monopoly on the mobile music production scene and if you want reliable, hassle free experiences with your apps and iOS approved gear, just get this.

2 people found this helpful

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M.C.P.

Apple adapter may work for some things but fails connecting a midi controller keyboard

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017

Verified Purchase

Although this is made by Apple, it seems to have issues recognizing my high end Korg Kronos as a midi controller for my iPad Pro music apps. Even though my MIDI Wrench app detects the keyboard, I have to fiddle with the adapter for some time before I can get it to respond to my music apps, so I think I will have to buy the new Apple camera adapter even though it costs more, at $39. I don't think I would buy this again.

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Joann MacMaster

It was super easy to use

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015

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I took this on a trip with the idea to backup my camera photos each night to my iPad. It was super easy to use. We did a lot of hiking and crazy day trips so my camera took a beating - but I didn't worry about losing or breaking it, or having to buy more storage, it was so great to have the immediate backup each night (and on a big screen!). It's now in my essential cables pack for the next trip.

2 people found this helpful

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Joy

It WORKS

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2013

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I have two cameras, a older Olympus comedia and a new canon power shot sx 50HS. After reading the reveiws I was concerned about how difficut it would be to transfer the photos. It was sooo easy. I just plugged the USB cable into the camera adapter and then into both the camera and IPad. Instantly the photos downloaded. I didn't have to do a thing. The download took longer with the Olympus, but I did have a lot of pic's on it. When the download was complete you have the option to delete or save what is on your camera. I always save mine for a back up and that's it. I would recommend purchasing a USB cable if you don't already have one. That was the hardest part finding one that worked with my 8 yr old camera. After that it was smooth sailing.

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Gotta have it, but ouch on the $$$ Also not just for Cameras.

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016

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Really gouging us on the price here, apple. Jeeze.Probably costs them less than $5 to manufacture this. But we do need it! And it does work! I can plug a mouse, keyboard, MIDI devices, whatever is USB and "class compliant" into your ios device. Not just for Cameras.

4 people found this helpful

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Ray

Impressive Little Adapter, even for an iPod Touch

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2015

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This Lightning to USB adapter is awesome! You can use it for all sorts of things.

I don't have an iPad, so I was worried about how many devices would work with my iPod Touch and my iPhone (Apple is known for locking down firmware, after all). But interestingly enough, tons of stuff does! About half the stuff you plug in "requires too much power", which is obviously not true, but all you need to prevent this error is a simple powered USB hub.

Once you plug in your USB hub, though, the possibilities are endless! Keyboards? Yes! (Although some of the cheap ones don't have shortcut buttons, which are used as home button equivalents.) MIDI to USB interfaces? Absolutely! Mice? Well, sure, but they don't actually do anything... Thumb drives and portable USB hard drives? Sometimes! Another iPhone? I don't know why you'd want to do that when you could just use iTunes, but yes! Screw logic, USB headphones and speakers? You bet your overpriced adapter cables! An Arduino? No duh, the Arduino can pretend to be any other kind of USB device, so of course it works on iOS. I used my Arduino Mega as a MIDI keyboard that played a randomly-generated note every second.

Surprisingly enough, even Apple's USB to Ethernet adapter for the MacBook Air works. It says "not compatible" at first, but turn on airplane mode, open mobile safari, visit a webpage, and it loads! (Very fast, too.) Unplug the ethernet cable, and safari immediately says there's no internet. USB printers do not work, however. To use non-AirPrint printers with iOS, I'd recommend using an app called Print and Share.

The only other type of device I've tried so far that, unfortunately, doesn't work, is USB gamepads. (Including the ones the use wireless dongles.) Obviously, Xinput ones don't work, they don't work on Macs either. But not even DirectX gamepads work on iOS. Neither do XBox gamepads, PlayStation gamepads, or anything else I tried, wired or wireless. There just aren't any drivers for gamepads in the iOS firmware. So, only custom-built iOS-compatible Bluetooth gamepads can work.

However, all in all, quite an impressive little adapter. Definitely worth it's price, even if you don't have an iPad to make use of the camera import feature.

4 people found this helpful

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mercedes

Pointless, bad customer service

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

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Did not work and was never offered a refund just a replacement. When I told them I was told it was compatible with my iPad and come to find out it wasn't, therefore a replacement wouldn't have done me any good.

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AndyWD

Not a genuine Apple product

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2020

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This product is clearly not a genuine Apple product as advertised. I purchased it for use with a usb DAC but I will admit that I never got it to work. I subsequently bought one direct from Apple and the quality difference is night and day. The one on the right (in pictures) is genuine Apple and works perfectly.

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thinking-time.blogspotdotcom

Work, mine is genuine using ipad air 2 latest system ios 15

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2021

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£26 + £17 = £43 works but a little expensive with powered hub. Tried a third party seller on ebay £3.30 but that worked for 1 minute so I returned that.

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1

I can connect a high quality guitar interface to my guitar using ipad air 2. Sound is pc quality.

2

Garageband has free guitar amps and effects. You can also download extra presets called tone collection. Seemingly it sounds stereo.

3

Bias fx 2 and bias amp2 works. Free versions are limited but you can preview other people's set ups which is fun. Though some presets are made with the free version which you can download.

Yorkshire Lad

Rather expensive and of very short length, but as one would expect, it does the job

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2015

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Does the job, but very expensive - which is what one expects for Apple accessories I guess!

Pros
Generally, good quality.
It is possible to use this adapter for other than the tasks listed by Apple. For example, to connect an iPhone to an iPad and transfer photos and videos shot with an iPhone into an iPad - where editing is much better on the bigger screen, Be aware, though, that you cannot transfer files in the other direction, i.e. iPad to iPhone.
If a powered USB hub is used, then some devices requiring power through a USB connector may work. For a comprehensive review of the possibilities with an iPad, try a Web search for "Going beyond cameras with the Apple Lightning to USB adapter".

Cons
It is very expensive (and about double the price of the older 30-pin connector kit).
Only 12 cms overall length, of which only about 5 cms is the flexible cable between the connectors. More length might have been better to reduce possible strain on the Lightning socket on the Apple device. It begs the question: Is this better than having a solid block adapter with no cable between the connectors? There are advantages and disadvantages for both types.
It is proprietary to Apple so cannot be used on phones and tablet devices from any other manufacturer.
Probably of limited useful life due to Apple periodically change the connectors on (especially mobile) devices, so expensive Adapters like this will eventually become redundant with some future new models. (Rather annoyingly, this sort of change has left me with a now useless stock of old and expensive 30-pin adapters after upgrading my Apple mobile devices.) It remains to be seen if Apple changes the connectors on the mobile devices yet again given that they have moved to a single (new standard) USB-C port on the new MacBook. However, this may not happen on Apple mobile devices because USB supports the supply of power to a connected device, and this is a potential drain on a device such as an iPhone. (BTW, for an in depth look at the history of these connectors try searching the Web for "Ross Rubin" and "Apple And USB A History Of Adoption Acceptance, Acquiescence".) However, the future may well be for Apple to remove wiring port connectors entirely from their devices, even for charging!

As with a number of Apple-only accessories, one has limited choice if the function is required. It's the price you pay for the wall-garden "protect/control the consumer" approach currently used by Apple.

2 people found this helpful

Attacked by Badgers

Like spending money on a Ferrari and getting a push bike with square wheels.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2015

Verified Purchase

Delivery was quick but that's where my praise ends.
Basically an extremely overpriced USB otg cable, apple really do treat their customers like cash cows. Didn't work with our Sony camera but works OK with a 5 slot memory card reader and a Nikon d5200 albeit with an extremely slow download speed. The only reason I bought an iPad air 2 after years of using android tablets and phones was for the high quality image and audio editing applications available on iOS. Once the files are in the iPad it's plain sailing but getting them in and out are such a pain in the a*** it's almost making me reconsider the iPad purchase.
The fact there is no file explorer on iOS just make the problems worse. At home I end up using a £2 (!!!) USB otg cable and card reader to quickly put pictures on my nexus 5 then use an app called send anywhere to transfer them over my WiFi network to the iPad.
Also it won't download duplicates of images so I end up with only jpegs and not the RAW counterpart! There's probably a solution to this asides from shooting solely in RAW but I've not researched it yet.
Away from home it looks like I'm stuck with this partially broken and restrictive hardware solution.

4 people found this helpful

Expensive, but good quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2020

Verified Purchase

Works fine for connecting GoPro camera to iPad, also any other USB media device. As is normal with Apple, very impressive build quality, but as always, this comes at a price!

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