Eye-Fi SD card...

[Yogotta B. Kidding]

Well to all the ney sayers ...

Mine arrived the weekend via FriendCourier service. I bought it on eBay for the pricely sum of $53 for the 4G X2 card. I say pricely because the Eye-Fi website suggested price is $49. At the current rate that is under R350.

I had it delivered to my mate girlfriend in California while he was there on visit. He flew into ORT on Sunday to drop that and half a dozen Chinese made batteries for the 1D.

Im very chuffed the batteries are a fraction of the Canon OEM battery price and EyeFi much cheaper than most people would like us to believe they are.

Im properly chuffed, thanx and for all the things it cannot do, it does other things well. Cant wait to field test it outdoors on the 1D body, which I think is a limiting factor compared to the construction of the **0D range....

I think it has amazing potential, but all depends on the actual use.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Im properly chuffed, thanx and for all the things it cannot do, it does other things well. Cant wait to field test it outdoors on the 1D body, which I think is a limiting factor compared to the construction of the **0D range....

I think it has amazing potential, but all depends on the actual use.

Eager to hear what you think of it... write a review for ODPmagazine!

[Anonymous]

I think it has amazing potential, but all depends on the actual use.

Enjoy it! If you have any questions feel free to ask, I may even know the answers!

O/T: We used my card a couple of weeks ago in my friends 550D to set up a wedding photobooth and had one helluva time getting it to work, primarily because neither of us realised his camera had built in Eye-Fi support!

[dFe]

Mine was supposed to be on Monday, but some story about the UPS courier truck in accident and all the boxes stolen....
So now have to wait a bit longer.

[Yogotta B. Kidding]

Right..
Setup was very quick, 5minutes and we were up and running with everything in vanilla settings.

Around the house I got reception at 10m. our router can be mounted at better places, which will help matters. I tested it with the 1D, which I still reckon is a limitation, more specific the metal construction is.

It lacks speed. This can be a bother, but then again a 4G of storage it probably can take its time. Williams said he used it while having a photobooth at a party, brilliant I can see it working perfect for that, even studio work. Transfer rate looks like 1mb / sec, or there abouts.

I need to test it still on a PnS camera and outdoors. Im not holding my breath for super distance cover. That SD is small, its a lot of hardware which needs to go in there to make it work.

[Anonymous]

One nice thing about the 1D is you can set it to write small or medium jpg to the eye-fi and still send a RAW or large jpg to the CF card.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

One nice thing about the 1D is you can set it to write small or medium jpg to the eye-fi and still send a RAW or large jpg to the CF card.

Or if you run the dual slots, you can have a decent sized CF for RAW.

Anybody play with the CF adapters yet... there seems to be some kind of a bug where the eye-fi card will not format through the CF adapter on the 7D's?

[Anonymous]

Or if you run the dual slots, you can have a decent sized CF for RAW.

That's what I was trying to say.

Anybody play with the CF adapters yet... there seems to be some kind of a bug where the eye-fi card will not format through the CF adapter on the 7D's?

I looked for one in the UK but the 7D wouldn't even recognise the SD. There is at least one brand that is compatible but despite placing the order with the Amazon UK affiliate the week before I was due to arrive the card didnt arrive in time so I cancelled the order. I'm due to go back again soon so I'll try again.

[Yogotta B. Kidding]

AFAIK the CF adapters dont work with the new Eye-Fi X2 SD card. Haven't given it a thought though, yet.
However I have seen the CF card adapters with wireless. The downside is that I cannot see it working in the camera as the adapter card is too big.

[Anonymous]

AFAIK the CF adapters dont work with the new Eye-Fi X2 SD card. Haven't given it a thought though, yet.
However I have seen the CF card adapters with wireless. The downside is that I cannot see it working in the camera as the adapter card is too big.

I've just ordered one and received confirmation that it has been shipped so we'll see. It was only £14 so I don't foresee a major hardship if it doesn't.

[DCM]

Or if you run the dual slots, you can have a decent sized CF for RAW.

Anybody play with the CF adapters yet... there seems to be some kind of a bug where the eye-fi card will not format through the CF adapter on the 7D's?

The main issue with the CF adapter is the formatting issue followed closely by it either completely shielding the antenna or making the range/transfer speed useless...i spent a lot of time last year investigating this and i eventually tracked down someone in a overseas forum, may have been dpreview.com that had it working but it involved getting the right type of CF adapter and then dismantling it to get rid of the shielding so that the signal wasn't as weak. Not a job for the feint hearted or dumb fingered

In the end i choose to find more cost effective CF cards mainly from Kingston and ADATA, which i posted about here last night, and basically abandoned the SD side of things the reasons where:

Really really fast SDHC SDHX and SDXC cards cost the same if not more than the large, fast CF cards and there was just no way i was going to spend that if i could get fast CF especially 32GB at affordable (for me) price.

Secondly the eye-fi cards i think top out at 8GB anyway, and even if just for tethering the Large RAW files that a 7D, 5Dmk2 or 1Dm4 can create are going to be slow over wi-fi only to be compounded by the shielding debacle mentioned above. I agree on a 1Dmk4 you could send the low res JPEGs to the eye-fi, but it seems like a waste of time and workflow to me.

In all honesty the amount of research time equating to lost revenue, as well as the ficklness of eye-fi ( i'm not against them, i just don't think it is a pro grade tool no mater how much the people at Eye-fi think so) if you're on the 7D and wireless or highspeed tethering is needed, buy the wireless Grip, i agree Canon could have and should have made wireless N and not B/G but for the money, it does what is required. I used one in Rome two months ago while on holiday and it worked quite well. i'm saving up for one only because it address some very weird needs i have.

As for eye-fi, if they want to sell to pros in my mind it's quite simple, given the footprint and Volume of CF cards they could create a CF based, N 150mb even 300mb controller with a double or even triple looped omni antenna and make all us SLR users a pro grade tool that i'd be prepared to pay for.

As noted by Yogotta B. Kidding, it all depends what you need it for.

[Anonymous]

I'll admit that at this stage a eye-fi + CF adapter really doesn't make sense if you only own a 7D, however my main camera is a 1D (with it's dual memory card slots) and through circumstance I own two eye-fi cards so I'm quite looking forward to at least trying the adapter+card just for S&Gs. I'll be ditching the 7D soon with luck so if it doesn't work I'm only out a fraction of the money I wasted on UV filters before I knew better.

[Anonymous]

My CF card adapter arrived today and my eye-fi is working rather better than I thought it would. Perhaps because the adapter seems to be plastic and therefore isnt offering much in the way of shielding?

[Yogotta B. Kidding]

thats brilliant..
Im very happy to use the Eye-Fi around the house even in the pns camera, we dont really get to a point where the card is running tight on space either.

I really like the Canon wiFi grips/adapters but really, it costs the same as the camera, why?

This is only the start of things to come, Im not too phase about it now, knowing that we will get to the point where I want to be, eventually

[Nicholas de Kock]

The Eye-Fi X2 + iPad = awesomeness! It's the perfect solution for studio photographers, with my card I get 9 second direct transfer time on 18MP photos, 5 seconds on 8MP photos and 3MP is pretty instant. This tech really shines for studio setup's, you give your client the iPad start snapping photos and they choose which photos they like as you take them. The X2 won't transfer RAW files so you can set your camera to RAW + 3MP JPEGs that way the client gets instant previews while you get high quality pics stored on the card for post production. I'm amazed how tiny functional technology has become.

[Anonymous]

The Eye-Fi X2 + iPad = awesomeness! It's the perfect solution for studio photographers, with my card I get 9 second direct transfer time on 18MP photos, 5 seconds on 8MP photos and 3MP is pretty instant. This tech really shines for studio setup's, you give your client the iPad start snapping photos and they choose which photos they like as you take them. The X2 won't transfer RAW files so you can set your camera to RAW + 3MP JPEGs that way the client gets instant previews while you get high quality pics stored on the card for post production. I'm amazed how tiny functional technology has become.

It depends on which of the X2 series you get. While the connect and mobile models won't transfer RAW the Pro model will. Like you I generally set mine to ignore them when shooting RAW+JPG.

It's good to hear I'm not the only one having such a positive experience with the cards.

Are you using the eye-fi app or shuttersnitch? I've found the app to be a bit flakey but shuttersnitch works great!

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Man Nicholas! You are really liking that iPad of yours!

[Yogotta B. Kidding]

The bloke who sat next to me at Silverstone copied all his pics to iPad. Generally I was impressed too, it worked and it worked very well.

[Anonymous]

I'm looking for something to aid in captioning images once I've got them on the iPad. Shuttersnitch is a little too limited but I've found another ap called Filterstorm. Does anyone have any experience with that app?

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

I'm looking for something to aid in captioning images once I've got them on the iPad. Shuttersnitch is a little too limited but I've found another ap called Filterstorm. Does anyone have any experience with that app?

Photogene does metadata. not sure if that is what you need?