Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter

I got this to connect my iPhone 11 to Cambridge Dacmagic 100. Works great. Excellent build quality (Apple). I saw many cheaper knock-offs but didn't want to take the chance.

Before you make this purchase, keep in mind this it was designed and advertised to connect to a CAMERA. If you’re buying this to connect to an unpowered device like a thumb drive or card reader, it WON’T WORK. The lightning port was never really designed to provide the 5 volts most USB devices require. The device you’re adapting to must have its own power source (like a camera has batteries). I’m using it for my J-Lab USB microphone for YouTube using a powered USB hub to provide power to the microphone and it works like a champ! I got both this and a hub for less than $40. Worth it considering what I paid for the microphone.

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So, got this to plug in a USB microphone. Bought brand name on purpose. Would not power my microphone. It’s a let down, but my fault. Maybe it will come in handy for something else? I guess I’ll find out.

Worked perfectly right out of the box. Needed to download photos off my old Nikon D70 to iPad Air 2 instead of to my Macbook. Plugged adapter into iPad and other end accepts Nikon USB camera cable. Open Photos app, Choose "Device" in side menu and voila, there are all the photos currently on the camera. Download speed super fast for largest size JPEGs. Happy! Apple adapter is a little pricey, but I say just go with it instead of risking some other brand that may or may not work.

Kids, this is the real deal. People make fun of Apple and their overpriced dongles, but this thing is magic. No really, I can't think of another tiny piece of hardware that has so drastically expanded what I can do with a single port. This dongle hides behind the name "Camera Adapter", as if it were a mere tool for camera enthusiasts. I don't care about cameras at all, I've used this to: - Attach a USB keyboard for use with my iPad Pro - Connect a Blue Yeti USB Microphone to my iPad and record vocals - Attach a USB MIDI Controller which then seamlessly hooks into Garageband's Synth instruments - Connect to a USB-to-Ethernet hub and download stuff to my iPhone/iPad over Ethernet - Oh, by the way, that hub I mentioned has 3 USB ports on it, I can connect stuff to **all three of them** and download over Ethernet at the same time. - And yeah, maybe I'll try it out with a camera someday when I'm done rocking out with all these other peripherals... I wonder if I could plug in an Electric-Guitar-to-USB adapter... Anyway, this thing is insane. You might have an awesome iPad, but until you get this, you're not using it right. Accept no substitutes.

After returning the grey-not-white Omar lightning keyboard, and a used Macally white-but-not-working keyboard (ebay), I decided to see whether I could use one of my white/aluminum-silver mechanical keyboards with my iPad via this connector. It works! And it is awesome to type in full-size-keyboard heaven on mechanical keys (E-Element z-77 from Amazon) to take notes in OneNote, write email, fast-enter into Omnifocus, etc. with complete kinetic comfort! Even better, I have also tested it on iPhone 5s and iPhone 8 Plus - success! It also hooks into an older rubber dome usb keyboard and does fine with all three devices as well. The only issue - and I think this is true across the board - is that when the devices' battery life drops into the 60% range, they are apt to turn off the keyboard for drawing too much power. I found that if I unplugged and replugged it in, and typed more slowly, I could continue using it into the 50% range at least. I haven't pushed it further, usually I finished what I was doing and didn't need to go further (courtesy of faster data entry with a keyboard and touch typing skills). I will be trying a powered hub situation next, and a splitter. For people who need to use electronics, but want a little less EMF/less Bluetooth, having a way to enjoy the functionality of portable iOS devices with some buffer distance, this adaptor plus a keyboard is really nice.

Allows me to transfer my photos & files from my iPhone 12 to a “Pony” thumb drive… but does not work with any of my “Sandisk” drives as they require too much power

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I used this product to connect a Yubi key to my iPhone. Yubi key is a secure password device that my employer requires to use their Microsoft Teams app on my iPhone. Worked right away, no fuss. Apple calls it a camera adapter but it will mechanically connect various devices that need a USB socket. If the device is low power, like YubiKey, iPhone can support the power required by sharing power from iPhone battery. You can get a non-apple camera adapter for less than half the price that apple sells. They probably work just as good, but I decided to buy the adapter from Apple because I didn’t know if it would work and I wanted to remove worry about quality.

Updated: Got this working eventually, needed to use a powered hub with the particular usb device (Modal craft) I was wanting to use. Whether it’s genuine or not, it works 100% like the current version Apple sells for quite a bit more money and I ended up returning and keeping this one.

It is a big disappointment, the adaptor didn’t work at all and it’s an apple product PLUS it came with a stain of brown colour.