iPad photographic camera adaptor plays nice with USB keyboard, headphones
You’d think Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPad Camera Connection Kit would be locked down to only employment with things like, you know, cameras and whatchamacallit. But, you’d be legal injury. New reports indicate that the Camera Connection Kit deeds wellspring with other peripherals, like USB keyboards, USB headphones/headsets, and even USB microphones.
The iPad’s Camera Connection Kit is essentially an adaptor that allows iPad users to connect a camera to their Apple tablet via USB port and relocation images taken with a photographic camera to the iPad’s Photo Gallery app. The photos are imported in the equivalent weight of 3-megapixel resolutions. That’s a departure from the iPhone, which down feather-samples images to 800 x 600. The iPad volition importation in 2048 x 1536 for images formatted in the 4:3 aspect ratio that many point-and-shoot cameras use, or 2048 x 1364 for images formatted in the 3:2 ratio typical with DSLR cameras. The adapter will also conserve the EXIF information embedded in the digital images.
Seeing as how the iPad already deeds with its the Apple iPad Keyboard Dock through the iPad’s dock connection, it makes sense that the camera adaptor would work with other USB keyboards. You North Korean won’t get the added functionality of the dock itself, but at least you can that old USB keyboard out of the closet and put it to good manipulation.
It’s also goodness to see that the USB photographic camera adapter is compatible with USB headphones, headsets and microphones. That opens the door to using your VoIP headset to shuffle internet phone calls. And, if you manipulation a USB headset with a digital signaling mainframe to clean and jerk up the audio, call quality should be stellar.
Check out the video recording below to see the iPad Camera Connection Kit in action.
[Via: AppleInsider]
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