Can you take photos on digital camera and see them appear on the ipad using the camera connector

You can see the photos appear on the iPad by importing the photos from the camera or from the camera's storage card with the iPad Camera Connection Kit.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A

The camera connection kit accepts only SD camera memory cards.

Another way. You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.

Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).

Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import. (You can not export using the camera connection kit.)

 Cheers, Tom 😉

There is no current way to use the pad as a video monitor for the camera.

There is a way for you to do it, it will cost about $40 do it. I own a Nikon D7000 which has two sd slots, one shots raw and the other shots jpg. the jpg is a eyefi card, it creates a wifi and then you download the eyefi app from the store, and then follow the instructions. the wifi connection is only between the card and the iPad.

When I shot a picture, it takes like 5 seconds to show on my iPad 3 device.

Hope this helps