I tried that and the Ipad said "Too much power required" so guess it can't be done.
Another thing you can't do with the kit is, upload pictures to a PC, touch them up, download them to that same SD card and put them on the ipad. It says no pictures for import, but you can take that card, put it in a desktop or laptop and they are there.
I asked a local Apple tech about that today and he said that Apple prides itself on the no virus thing so they take no chances of something weird being installed on the iPad.
I can take a formatted SD card, put it my camera, take all the pictures I want, put it in the camera kit and the pictures load automatically to the ipad. So don't know how or when the line is drawn.