waynemac3

So, I’m going with the wife, son and his GF to Italy later this fall. I want to move the photos I take on my Canon 80D from the SD card the camera uses to my iPhone or I may take an iPad mini. The question is: Apple sells a dongle that has an SD card port on one end and a lightning connector on the other, this dongle supposedly will allow the iPhone or iPad to import the images. On the Apple web site the dongle gets mixed reviews. Do any of you have experience with this dongle and does it work?
The second question is: I have a point and shoot Sony that uses their proprietary ProDuo memory stick. Is there an adapter that I can put the Sony memory stick into that will then allow me to use an SD card reader to upload the photos to a computer.

Hope these questions made sense. Any advice will be appreciated.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I have an old 30 pin iPad 2 with a small adapter that the SD card plugs into and then plug that into the iPad port. Works fine.

wormtownspawn

if you are talking macro cards. there are adapters to fit them into larger card slots.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

He wants to plug a Memory Stick card into an SD reader.

(Some internal and most external card readers for computers will take various chips.)

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

If you Google for "ProDuo memory stick adapter" you'll find several.
Another solution may be to get a multi-card reader but make sure ProDuo is one it will accept, before you buy it. The packaging, or even the reader itself, will tell you which cards it accepts.

alolewis

I have the Dongle and use it with an IPAD mini, mine works great, never an issue. The biggest issue is with the IPAD mini in that the storage space is limited and, when shooting, Raw files, fills quickly. Sorry, don't know about the ProDuel. What I do, against the wisdom of many on here, is take lots of SD cards and change frequently. There is no backup but in my case, not a major issue as my wife is also taking photos and I consider her photos to be my backup.

waynemac3

The Sony card is narrower than an SD card and the contacts are a little different

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

The Apple Photo app will only "see" JPG files, not RAW, so I had to shoot RAW+JPEG FIne on a Fuji X-T20. I tried this on a recent trip, not taking a laptop and relying on the iOS SD to Lighting dongle. Had repeated connection issues, having to insert and reinsert the SD card. The other issue is storage space on the iPAD, which with mine, is not sufficient.

Next trip, I got a LaCie DJIBoss drive with SD card slot that automatically backed up everything. And, I could use the LaCie Copilot app to view the RAW files on the iPad. Much better solution.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Wayne, do you have any idea at all how many photos you'd be taking on your trip?
Have you considered taking several memory cards with you and just leaving the photos on them till you get home again?
Instead of an iPad or iPhone (I have neither), last time we went on a trip, I took two 16GB and two 32GB SD cards. In the evening I copied the images (both raw and jpg) to the 13" notebook I had also taken. I can't remember how many photos I took on that trip, but I only filled one of the 32GB cards,and about 8GB on the second one. Besides storage for the photos, the notebook also provided me the means of staying in touch with home.
We have also gone on trips without the notebook and no other means of backing up the photos.
Again, a couple of cards full of raw & jpg photos; the cards easily fit in pocket or purse, too.

queencitysanta Loc: Charlotte, North Carolina

I use the dongle, for years with my iPad.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

I agree... and it's been my experience that, unless you have been in photography a long time and have been on several of these trips, you are PROBABLY going to underestimate the total number of shots that will be taken. Personally, I would invest in a decent USB3 hard drive to plug into the Ipad. Then copy ALL of your photos from the camera and the phone to it (via the Ipad or whatever) This gets you a simple backup that isn't taking space on the Ipad and also not on the camera... personally, I have a personal WD Cloud drive that I can reach from anywhere with Wi-Fi so I first back up to the external usb drive then to the WD wifi cloud. This gives me 2 viable copies of the image that are off of the SD cards.. Once the copies are verified, I format the cards and they are ready for more photos. By the way, I carry 8 64gb SD cards for my D7100 and D610 and 8 32gb cards for the wife's D7000 (the 32gb cards were originally purchased for my D7100/D610 and I gave them to her when I upgraded to the 64gb cards. The point is that: anytime I travel, I can send copies of all of my photos back to the home and keep a copy on the USB drive so that I have redundancy. It also allows me to format my SD Cards and keep them ready for more. I know that my number and size of SD cards is overkill but it works for me. I have never filled more than 2 of the 64 gb cards in a day (and the D610 and D7100 both will hold 2 cards at a time). The Wife's D7000 will only take a max of 32 gb cards but also has 2 slots. My main point to all of this is that I have a copy (verified) of ALL of my daily shots back home, a copy of my daily shots on the USB external drive that is with me and ALL of my cards are freed up and ready for more shooting without worrying about how many cards are left or whatever. Now, I do carry a laptop with Adobe Cloud/Lightroom and Photoshop on it which allows me to look at and rough edit shots while on the trip.. (I never - well rarely, completely edit and process images until I get home but I do look to see what might need reshooting or whatever). My solution is overkill but it gets a complete copy of all of my unedited images back home, keeps a copy of my images with me on the trip (giving me redundancy for emergencies back home or on my trip) and keeps my cards empty and ready for more shots. Plus, B&H, Adorama and other companies sometimes have sales on good high-end SD cards and I generally, will pick up a couple when that happens. The one really nice thing in my solution is that the Wife's camera will NOT support an SD card larger than 32GB so I can: A, give her my older smaller cards. and be, I don't have to share my faster larger cards.. lol

Flattop57 Loc: Draper Utah

I use the dongle and it works great. It allows you to select which photos to transfer which is nice if your Apple device is low on memory. When traveling I transfer photos each night to my iPad. I feel it gives me a backup in the event something happens to my camera

JimRPhoto Loc: Raleigh NC

I use it al the time, most recently on a 15 day trip to Italy and Greece. Every evening, I back up my photos to the iPad with that Apple product. Then, I go a step further. I bought a SanDisk iXpand drive in Costco, which has an Apple lightning connector on one side, and a USB port on the other. So each night, I backed up all the day's photos from the iPad, to the iXpand drive. I'm lucky that I ran a few trial runs before going, as the iXpand drive is a bit quirky. I eventually figured out how to NOT use the built in software in the iXpand drive, but rather the typical "select" the photos on the iPad, and then copy them to the iXpand into folders I set up ahead of time. When I got home, I simply copied the content of each folder on the iXpand drive right into the same name folder on the computer. I felt a lot more secure with the redundent backup on two devices, the iPad, and the iXpand. Hope this helps. JimR

gordons1

try the photo stick....it works great....info@thephotostick.com

billmck Loc: Central KY

I have the Apple Lightning to SD card adapter and use it to move photos (.jpg only) from my SD card to my iPad. It works great for me. I don’t erase the photos from the SD card until I return home and transfer them to my Mac.

My problem is that sometimes I take a lot of photos and exceed the storage available on the iPad.