Continues from….
It could be that the vendor is trying to do too much with the software.. instead of just simply a wireless image transfer.
And from one of the ‘evals’.. (A comment for me, which would be a deal breaker), but there are people that feel that this is a ‘feature’ – section italicised:
This concept is possibly the best thing around and I’m not just referring to the card as a wifi device. Eye-Fi offer an excellent UI called Eye-Fi Center, an application which allows you to view the photographs very easily on your computer whilst the card transmits the photographs from the camera. Even better, the application then uploads the photographs to a proprietary website where you can store the photographs in their original format and size, including RAW formats. For $50 a year you get UNLIMITED storage capacity. The cherry on the cake is that you can allow the application to simultaneously upload the photographs to Facebook or any other social network for you. And the cherry on the cherry of the cake is that you can use a mobile device, such as an iPad, to do the work for you so you don’t have to lug a laptop around with you.
I think it is a bit tied into other OS(s).. maybe only iOS/OSX/Windows.. There has to be some sort of ‘receiver’ application for the transmissions… which may eliminate Android based devices(though their web site does mention Android)..
I wonder what the protocol for the File Transfers across WiFi are… TFTP? FTP?..
I wonder if it can temporarily store them on the card, then when it gets in range of an authorized running WiFi device (ie. android based tablet).. that it would transfer the files.. then when it gets out of range it will start caching them on the card again. That would be useful. It seems to indicate that it might.
One thing that puzzles me, is that it seems to indicate that only certain cards can handle raw.. bits is bits… shouldn’t matter.
