If you need to transfer photos or videos from your camera to your iPad or Mac, then you have to own this product. Not because it’s a great product, but because Apple has made it so only this adapter will work- at least on the iPad . I have a 3rd party usb card reader, and a usb to usb-c adapter, but Apple has somehow blocked it from working in order to squeeze more money out of its users. So, yes- it’s a good product, because you don’t really have any other choice.