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Just bought a new eye-fi pro card and I have to say it's the dog's danglies!

Definitely the cheapest way to shoot wirelessly, and works seamlessly with an ad hoc network to my laptop.

If you stop shooting it does go into sleep mode so the first shot after a pause takes some time to upload which keeps me on tenterhooks, but so far it's all been brilliant!

Looking forward to using it at a 50th birthday party in June when I can have the laptop set up and hopefully make some additional sales based on people seeing the pics straight away

recommended solution so far!
 
I'd love to know if it would work in an adapter with my D200 or D700..... They really do look like a top toy :thumbs:
 
Heard great things about the eye-fi. How long does it take to upload/download a photo to your laptop?
 
How do you set them up? What set up is required? Obviously there is no menu on the camera as the camera does not even know that it is a wireless card!
 
set up is a doddle, you put the card in your pc (or via a supplied card reader) and tell it which network to connect to, then stick it in you camera and it does all the wrok itself.

it does seem to drop the network connection a bit too easily for my liking but that's probably due to my old house and thick walls (wireless isn't great here)

once the connection is made it uploads pics in a couple of seconds (1dmk4 so quite big files)
 
I'd really like to try it before buying one though.......
 
Would love to know if they work in a CF to SD adaptor :)
 
ok, now the bad news

when it works it works fine, when it loses the connection it can be a right b****r to get back

I've spent the last 2 hours getting my connection back and in that time it wouldn't connect even when plugged directly into my pc.

The manager software couldn't see it either, even though XP could.

After a reboot of everything it did detect the card but then when I tried to add another ad hoc wireless network the card refused to connect to it, even though everything else I have would.

It seems it's a great technology when you get it working but troubleshooting is a right pain - check out all the eyefi forums and you'll see most problems are to do with connecting and staying connected to your network
 
keirik said:
ok, now the bad news

when it works it works fine, when it loses the connection it can be a right b****r to get back

I've spent the last 2 hours getting my connection back and in that time it wouldn't connect even when plugged directly into my pc.

The manager software couldn't see it either, even though XP could.

After a reboot of everything it did detect the card but then when I tried to add another ad hoc wireless network the card refused to connect to it, even though everything else I have would.

It seems it's a great technology when you get it working but troubleshooting is a right pain - check out all the eyefi forums and you'll see most problems are to do with connecting and staying connected to your network
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Its a shame that they dont mention that in their description.... Think I'll stay with the "norm" as sometimes loose connection with the wi-fi & PC..
 
it seems the problem is what sort of network you try to connect with

I can connect to my inbuilt wireless adapter on the laptop

I can connect to my wireless router

connecting to a netgear pc card is just a complete failure

the errors you get are wide and varied but come down to problems with the eyefi connecting

I've gone back to my standard built in adapter and ad hoc network and it seems to be stable now as long as i give it 5 minutes to get an ip address

still think it's worth the money when i get to understand how it works - especially given the alternative of canon wft gear

and even if i can't always connect it's still an 8gb card so you don't lose anything
 
Have a MSI U100 which runs off the wireless router from the bedroom - not the best of connections as it seems to drop its connection - prob same reason you have too many brick walls in the way :bonk:

OH has the most problem with connection with her laptop but my Nikon D300s has both CF & SD slots so all in all to me it would be another gadget....

It does make a chnage to actually hear from someone who has one of these cards thou, as then you can hear the con's as well as the pro's of them..

Thanks for the thread thou - informative :thumbs:
 
It looks like a good product, but they seem to sell various version depending upon use and price them all differently.

If they sold a single unit, that just worked with JPEG and RAW, for a reasonable price I would probably be interested.
 
I can't work out the range properly, there is very little difference between the lower range, more space 4GB or 8GB and the geo tagging then the pro with the raw and all of the above.

Darren if your ever in the Bolton area your welcome to call round and have a play with a pro X2 you will need to bring an SD to CF adaptor though, I only got it the other day, £120 less 5% with a code and 7% quidco from Jessops made it the cheapest I could find.

Set up was easy just use a wizard and it finds the wireless network enter the key and away it goes. Transfer is reasonably quick, I'm only on a 54G network at the moment due to my N router failing RAW takes longer but its to be expected. I think the main use for this type of device is event or sports photography in which case jpg transfers are enough I don't think any sports or event togs shoot raw. In which case the cheaper cards are an option are they not?
 
cowasaki said:
I'd love to know if it would work in an adapter with my D200 or D700..... They really do look like a top toy :thumbs:
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Adapter support is varied and not officially supported by the folks who make the Eye-Fi (I contacted them already recently and looked into this, heh).

I'll be picking up one of the new X2 cards soon for my D300s, but it's probably cheaper for your D200 to just pick up a WT-3 on eBay. I got one there about 3 weeks ago, fully refurbed, 6 month Nikon warranty (yup, Nikon, not 3rd party), only £86.
 
cowasaki said:
How do you set them up? What set up is required? Obviously there is no menu on the camera as the camera does not even know that it is a wireless card!
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For some cameras there is. That's the difference between "Compatible Cameras" and "Connected Cameras" on the lists on their website.
 
cowasaki said:
I'd really like to try it before buying one though.......
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From the user reviews I've read (and there have been a lot) the CF adapters are not worth it. Only some adapters work and then the ones that work only work with some CF cameras and not all. If you can get one working then you'll find that the read/write speed to the card has been reduced, the wifi range has been limited to around 15ft (without brick walls) and you will be more likely to get corrupt images turning up. Though it is possible to get it 'working' it isn't going to work well enough for most togs.
 
Mark.A said:
the wifi range has been limited to around 15ft (without brick walls) and you will be more likely to get corrupt images turning up.
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I belive those issues depend on whether you're creating an ad-hoc connection or doing it properly and going through a router. Through a router it's fine. Anything on an ad-hoc network is going to have pretty limited range and speed.
 
If you set you camera to produce a raw and a jpg at the same time could you tell the card to only transfer the jpg file?
 
In my case, yes, this was what I specifically asked the Eye-Fi people about.

The D300s has dual card slots, and I regularly shoot RAW+JPG with the RAW files going to the nice fast CF card, and the JPG files going to the slower, much larger capacity SDHC card.

If I replace my SDHC card with an Eye-Fi card, then I can continue to shoot with this setup, and have anything that gets saved to the SDHC slot (namely, the JPG files) transmitted straight over WiFi to wherever.

Whether it'll distinguish the difference between RAW and JPG on a single card, I don't know. It's not something I'd considered using myself, so I didn't look into it, but I imagine there must be a way.
 
Yes it stores the files as well, you can set it up as unimited storeage where it will fill the card and transfer as if goes once the card is full it will delete the older files.
 
The EyeFi cards have been around for sometime now but are a good cheaper alternative. There are quite a few mixed reports though with some not experiencing any issues and some with plenty. They do seem to work better with cameras with dual slots. This allows you to transmit lower res image while saving larger or raw to CF card.

For those cameras with only a CF slot an adaptor is required and I have heard a some issues with these, mainly from Nikon users. I believe some types require an alteration to the CF adaptor by removing a metal clip or band. Once this has been done they seem to work ok.

Always worth remembering when using wifi that speed is affected by connection (adhoc - camera to pc/mac - slower than infrastructure - camera to pc/mac via access point), distance and any obsticles such as walls or metal constructions within buildings.
 
The metal caseing on the adaptor will provide sheilding of the wifi signal and reduce the range quite a bit or even more especially if your have a metal body as well.
 
I saw a guy useing one and he had stripped the adaptor down and removed all the metal he could.
 
stringy said:
If you set you camera to produce a raw and a jpg at the same time could you tell the card to only transfer the jpg file?
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Yes you can it up so it only wirelessly transfers the JPEG file and the RAW file is just stored on the card.
 
Dear eye-fi support
I had a play with mine last night and set it up to upload to facebook for some fun at a BBQ. After I noticed that the images that were uploaded automatically were not saved to the PC in the usual folder that the eye-fi files are normally saved in. The problem was that one or two images didn't upload but also didn't end up stored so I could add them manually, it was only when I read the card on a PC I could get all the images.
 
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