Eye-Fi Confusion

Rob Bartley

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Hi. I am looking for some help please:help:

I have a relative who is not particularly into photography, about using an eye-fi card to transfer photos from his point and shoot, straight onto an iPad. He no longer has a laptop and that was part of the reasoning in the purchase of the iPad, a simple way to surf the net and view some photos.

After researching on here and Mr Google, it appears that it will work fine BUT my understanding is that to set it up in the first place, you require a computer. Is this definitely the case? If so, is there a simple cable solution that will do the same thing as I don't want him wasting money?

Cheers, Rob
 
I think you need a computer to set up eye fi centre (referred to in the link).

However couldn't they do that on your computer and then just use the iPad from then on?
 
Thanks for the link Andrius.:)

Reading through it states what you need is:

Eye-Fi Center version 3.3.1 or higher
Eye-Fi Card with firmware version 4.5021 or higher
An iOS device with iOS 4.0 or higher
The Eye-Fi app for the iPhone or iPad version 2.0.1 or higher
Computer and iOS device with an internet connection

mmmmmmm looks like the eye-fi may not be the answer.

Anyone else had any experience of these?
 
Good thought Mike................never really considered such an obvious answer. Cheers.
 
Whilst I'm not trying to do this PC free, I have just acquired an EyeFi X2 card and set it up to entirely bypass the PC and upload the pictures straight to my webspace (actually it's configured to import itself into Gallery 3).

What I'm doing isn't terribly important - the bottom line is that once setup there's no *need* to ever have the PC on again - if you set it up to work as you describe (in effect adhoc to the iPad) then that's how it will work. Further if you configure it to be in "endless memory" mode, then it will automatically delete the oldest images from the card when it gets to a preset (by you) threshold of free space (50,40,30,20,10%)

Conversely he could have it upload to the photo sharing site of his choice and manage it all there via the web...
 
You could just get the Apple camera connection kit.
It has two adaptors, one for a USB cable to camera and the other an SDcard slot, which you just put the card into. Either way the iPad reads the card straight to the photo app.
I use my ipad2 with my Canon 40d when I'm away instead of taking a laptop. The iPad even reads RAW files!
 
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