ot: anyone try/using eye-fi?

[Coronita]

This product:

http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/basics

Just curious if you are using it, what’s your experience.
Trying to see if I can get it to work with my 7D….

(Will need a SDHC to CF adapter for that to work…)

[DataAgent]

Looks interesting. However, the reviews on Amazon ain’t so hot.

[ucodegen]

[quote=DataAgent]Looks interesting. However, the reviews on Amazon ain’t so hot.[/quote]
Interesting.. because that is not what I am seeing on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=eye-fi

NOTE: The CF – SD/SDHC adapter route is not recommended by the vendor… though in some instances it works.

There are mentions that you might want to use the ‘Eye-Fi Pro X2 if you plan use it for a lot of photos because it uses a higher bandwidth (802.11n?). Of course then you’ll need the appropriate ‘basestation’ or ‘WiFi transceiver’ in your computer to be able to use n (both sides have to be ‘n’ compat.. watch out for earlier ‘n’s because they are not necessarily up to standard)

On the other hand, there does seem to be some mention of it pusing things to an outside acct too? See second review down on this link:

It could be that the vendor is trying to do too much with the software.. instead of just simply a wireless image transfer.

[Coronita]

[quote=ucodegen][quote=DataAgent]Looks interesting. However, the reviews on Amazon ain’t so hot.[/quote]
Interesting.. because that is not what I am seeing on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=eye-fi

NOTE: The CF – SD/SDHC adapter route is not recommended by the vendor… though in some instances it works.

There are mentions that you might want to use the ‘Eye-Fi Pro X2 if you plan use it for a lot of photos because it uses a higher bandwidth (802.11n?). Of course then you’ll need the appropriate ‘basestation’ or ‘WiFi transceiver’ in your computer to be able to use n (both sides have to be ‘n’ compat.. watch out for earlier ‘n’s because they are not necessarily up to standard)

On the other hand, there does seem to be some mention of it pusing things to an outside acct too? See second review down on this link:

It could be that the vendor is trying to do too much with the software.. instead of just simply a wireless image transfer.[/quote]

That’s exactly what I want. Wireless transfer. I want to carry say an android tablet or phone or external storage media, and then have it seemlessly upload to those devices. Not that hard to do, and it was one of my ideas awhile back.

I don’t know why they don’t have one with CF format. A lot of cameras still use CF.
Canon 5d and Canon 7d both use CF, even the latest 5d Mark III ….

[ucodegen]

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.

DPReview’s take:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/eye-fi
–it looks like they used the lower end card though..

Other note:

Also the automatic geotagging feature requires there to be a WiFi hotspot near your picture-taking location (it is not GPS).

[Coronita]

[quote=ucodegen]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.

DPReview’s take:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/eye-fi
–it looks like they used the lower end card though..

Other note:

Also the automatic geotagging feature requires there to be a WiFi hotspot near your picture-taking location (it is not GPS).

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hmmm maybe I’ll wait to see if there are other solutions.

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