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Hi

I'm looking for a way to transfer images from an SD card to an iPhone in the field. So ideally, an SD card reader for the iPhone 5s that will enable me to then use the phone to upload the images to social media etc?

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Si

In reply to Si Withington:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-rea...
Cheaper options obviously available.

Or depending on your camera you can use an app and the cameras wifi (my powershot certainly does)

In reply to prog99:

Not compatible with an iPhone pal

In reply to Si Withington:

I've not found a way (apart from having a 3G iPad, which isn't exactly what you asked for!)

In reply to Si Withington:
Don't think that you can do this without an eyefi card or similar (which uses wifi) - jail-breaking your phone might give you options but at your own risk of course.

Edited to say that this can work with your phone's wifi hotspot feature but is battery intensive for both phone and camera (which needs to be on to power the eyefi card).

In reply to Si Withington:

Of course, they were orginally (wrongly) advertised as being compatible.

In reply to london_huddy:

I don't know much about Eye-fi etc, apart from it hammers the battery.

Can you decide when the card transfers the images to the phone, or does it continually try? Any info on options and how they work would be great.

Cheers

In reply to Si Withington:

It's continuous as long as the connection is there so you could shoot with the camera and then when things calm down switch on the phone, activate the hotspot and then the transfer should commence. The card will, in the mean time, continue searching however, at the expense of battery life. I don't think that you can deactivate the wireless function but stand ready to be corrected - I've not used them for a while.

In reply to Si Withington:

it's something that's puzzled me for a while... why do apple have a "camera kit" for the ipad but stop it from working on the iphone?

In reply to Si Withington:

Si, if your camera has wifi capability you could transfer them from an app by that manufacturer ie. Sony have an app called PlayMemories Mobile.

I use this which seems pretty good, you can also remote capture depending on model of camera. I then back all the images up to a portable wifi drive (Seagate wireless plus).

In reply to rallymania:
The forums seem to suggest it's because the power requirement is quite high for a phone, but I've no idea at all if that's true!
Doesn't seem to square with the fact you could get it work on earlier versions do the iPhone if they were jailbroken.

In reply to Carolyn:

I'm also interested in this. As an alternative, are there dongles or something that can be connected to the camera by cable and transfer pictures wirelessly?

In reply to Si Withington:

Is this any use to you?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zoomit/id343057034?mt=8

In reply to Cobbler:

Just a thought, while I was looking for the wifi hard drive i came across the link below, it looks to be a portable battery which has a wifi module and SD card reader you could plug your card in then transfer the media.

http://www.kingston.com/en/wireless/wireless_readers#mlw221

In reply to Doad13:

Looks good, cheers, will check it out.

In reply to Carolyn:

or why a USB to go cable works on practically every android phone

In reply to rallymania:

This is a non-issue for Androids, but I don't think Apple products support USB OTG.