Photo gadget - wireless SD card

Benster

Folks, saw this this morning while steeling myself to get stuck in to some work... Seems you can change your existing SD memory card to this wireless one to transfer to your PC/laptop as you shoot...

Eye-fi card

And their site:

www.eye.fi

Only 2Gb storage at the moment, but I'm sure this would grow. Wonder if a CF version is on the way?

B.

Paulw

Of course, for Canon, you can buy their wireless transmitter which can transfer images direct to a PC/laptop, or even directly to an external USB drive.

A bit expensive, but might be worth checking out.

Borderfox

The Eyefi is really slow and drains the camera battery, I read a review on DP and they said it was grand for one or two shots but it took too long for anything else.

Mellor

Benster wrote: »

Only 2Gb storage at the moment, but I'm sure this would grow. Wonder if a CF version is on the way?

B.

If it is sending it direct to the PC, surely the capacity isn't an issue.

daedalus2097

Mellor wrote: »

If it is sending it direct to the PC, surely the capacity isn't an issue.

I wonder is that just the size of card it emulates? As in, the camera *thinks* it's a 2GB card. That'd make sense as it would make it compatible with loads of cameras which don't support SD-HC cards.

Fajitas!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the card still works out being a 2 gig card, just everything is backed up to wherever it's being sent via wifi - So you could just fill up the card, format, and continue, or use it so it's automatically backed up.

As I said, open to correction.

rymus

again this is an IIRC, but it is a 2gb SD card. That is, the card has 2gb onboard storage, but it also has a facility to send photos via it's built-in wifi controller to either a PC or to an online album like flickr.

For example; I could pop it into a camera, go out for a day and shoot loads of photos and when I get home, turn on the camera and it'd realise I'm home (once it detects a previously configured wireless network) and start the job of uploading the photos to say flickr directly from the card. Pretty tough on the camera's battery I'd say. You wouldnt want to be uploading huge amounts of data unless you had some kind of cradle or plug in charger for your camera.

mikeanywhere

Paulw wrote: »

Of course, for Canon, you can buy their wireless transmitter which can transfer images direct to a PC/laptop, or even directly to an external USB drive.

A bit expensive, but might be worth checking out.

Have you seen the size of it too, friggin large and heavy especially if you have the battery grip on it too........

Best go and start doing some weight lifting to get used to the weight!!

Borderfox

The 1dmk3 version just sits on the side of the camera, the 40d version is a batterygrip type.