just incase someone else runs into this.
it was because my SD-cards in the camera already had images.
It seems the software gets into this state while the ipad is doing its own thing trying to read and index the images. I do astrophoto stuff mostly so it was a goodly number of images .

I have ...

Hey Catherine,
Thanks for the quick reply. I just submitted the bug report via the app.
please let me know if you need me to try anything else.

Hi there,
I feel like I am missing something simple, but here we are.
I have a nikon connected to an Ipad via OTG cable.
It connects to the camera with out issue, but everything is greyed out.

I am running the latest iOS, i just installed the app from the app store, v 4.2.6 iOS (Sept 16 2022 ...