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What is an eye-fi card? You can get the details here:
www.eye.fi
Basically it is a standard form factor SD card that knows about cameras. After you configure to let it know about your network (or others) you plug it into your camera and start taking pictures. When the camera is in range of your network it will wirelessly download them to your PC.
The eye-fi SD card comes with a little USB adapter that you can plug into a PC or a MAC. Installers for both types of computers are available on the SD card.
Here's what I did to install:
1) Stick the SD card in the USB adapter and plug it in the the PC
2) Navigate to the folder that says start here. (Mac and PC installs ... the Mac works too)
3) Run the installer
4) It prompts for a network to attach to, this is where you give it the password for your network.
5) You can over ride the default folder and do some other stuff that you probably don't care about.
6) Remove the SD card and blug into your camera.
7) Take a picture and watch it load to your PC seconds later.
The camera does not need to know anything about the SD card. It is smart and looks for new JPG files to be created. It will ONLY transmit jpg files. If you buy the pro version it will upload RAW files. The only tuning that is required is to set up your camera so it won't shut down automatically before the transfers are complete. My camera was setup to shut down after a minute which was fine. If you took a ton of pictures this might be an issue...but only in so far as you might need to turn your camera on to continue the transfer.
I wish it deleted the pictures after they transferred but it doesn't. You can configure to ONLY transfer images that you write protect. I bought the HOME version so it only allows works with my wifi. You can buy different versions that will jump on wifi and transmit the images to a web site. The pro version has the ability to transfer images using an adhoc network connection thus NOT requiring an access point.
This is a pretty cool product anyway you look at it! So far it just works!
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www.eye.fi
Basically it is a standard form factor SD card that knows about cameras. After you configure to let it know about your network (or others) you plug it into your camera and start taking pictures. When the camera is in range of your network it will wirelessly download them to your PC.
The eye-fi SD card comes with a little USB adapter that you can plug into a PC or a MAC. Installers for both types of computers are available on the SD card.
Here's what I did to install:
1) Stick the SD card in the USB adapter and plug it in the the PC
2) Navigate to the folder that says start here. (Mac and PC installs ... the Mac works too)
3) Run the installer
4) It prompts for a network to attach to, this is where you give it the password for your network.
5) You can over ride the default folder and do some other stuff that you probably don't care about.
6) Remove the SD card and blug into your camera.
7) Take a picture and watch it load to your PC seconds later.
The camera does not need to know anything about the SD card. It is smart and looks for new JPG files to be created. It will ONLY transmit jpg files. If you buy the pro version it will upload RAW files. The only tuning that is required is to set up your camera so it won't shut down automatically before the transfers are complete. My camera was setup to shut down after a minute which was fine. If you took a ton of pictures this might be an issue...but only in so far as you might need to turn your camera on to continue the transfer.
I wish it deleted the pictures after they transferred but it doesn't. You can configure to ONLY transfer images that you write protect. I bought the HOME version so it only allows works with my wifi. You can buy different versions that will jump on wifi and transmit the images to a web site. The pro version has the ability to transfer images using an adhoc network connection thus NOT requiring an access point.
This is a pretty cool product anyway you look at it! So far it just works!
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