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Are we talking new or used?
There is a small kit you can get with two leads one of which has an SD slot, the other a USB slot. They used to be in short supply in the early days, Eric had to ask Tom to source one from the US when he got his iPad but they should be readily available now.
The other way is to put the images onto the MBP and transfer them by Synchronising with the iPad via the Dock or the included male USB lead. Unless of course your camera has wi-fi. My little P3 Nikon has and would be handy for that. Or one of those SD cards with built in wi-fi would probably do the trick.
You can also use a PC to charge and synch the iPad.
If you do it from camera to iPad the images are camera size (Big files) if you load the camera files onto your MBP and into iPhoto when it synchs it only loads smaller files into the iPad, but they are still perfectly OK to view, I can't tell the difference. The new retina display is well worthwhile if you are wanting to go new, the difference for images is clearly visible.
If you are talking new or version 2 they have two cameras, one facing you and the other facing away. The earlier version only has a rather poor camera facing you I think.
I don't actually have one but a friend has an early one which I set up for him from time to time. He has 12,000 images in it, the main images are in his iMac and he synchs the iPad if he needs to update it from the iMac. It's a 64Gb version, I don't think it's 1/3 full, it also has a couple of thousand music tracks loaded.
Interestingly the iPad 1 will still take the latest iOS software iOS 5.1, with no issues, whether it will take iOS 6, due to be released later this year, remains to be seen, it probably will.
If I haven't got that 100% right then no doubt someone will correct me because it's all from memory and my memory is not 100% nowadays!
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Robert.