Hi
I'm new to iPad as well.
One thing that I was happy to find was that I can just plug my iPad into my computer's USB Port and look at it in Windows Explorer. The first time you will get the loading software message.
It shows up there as a Hard Drive just like a camera would and you can copy and paste image and video files back and forth with no problems, so you can re-size them rotate them or whatever in Windows before you transfer them, if you want to.
You can also transfer the images from the iPad to your computer, run them through Photoshop, or your video through a video editor and then move then back to the iPad.
That's most of what I've figured out to far but it's a big help for what I want to do with it.
I'm looking forward to shooting video that I will then transfer to my computer and edit in Adobe Premiere, add sound and narration and them save online.
Then I can link to them on the iPad and play them on it without storing the files there. They are too big to store a lot of them on the pad!
I've done a few tests and it works great, the video from the iPad is very good.
I'm researching tripod mounts and auxiliary lenses now.
Mike