Eye-fi direct connect hassles - help.

[Stan Blumberg]

I'll try again this evening but a google search tells me that the SD card must be the selected card for playback of images on the camera for it to work

[Anonymous]

I'll try again this evening but a google search tells me that the SD card must be the selected card for playback of images on the camera for it to work

Duh, I forgot about the dual slots on the new 5D.

You may have stumbled on the solution.

[Anonymous]

It's the same thing as far as I know... just sandisk branded

No, well almost no. The Sandisk is the same as the Connect X2 and Mobile X2 eye-fi cards which afaik means no RAW support

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

No, well almost no. The Sandisk is the same as the Connect X2 and Mobile X2 eye-fi cards which afaik means no RAW support

ah... yes. That is more accurate... I have not even considered trying to push 20mp RAW files through it, so I didn't bother to check that.

[walterpike]

Hi

the Sandisk card is a rebranded Eye fi card set up I believe for distribution in Europe - its not able to process raw ( as I say don't think i would even want it to my raw files are like 43megs)

Remember when you set up the second slot with the Eye-Fi card that it should be recording Jpeg - I forgot to do this the first time - everything worked except that no images were transferred.

[Lefty]

... its not able to process raw ( as I say don't think i would even want it to my raw files are like 43megs)

Remember when you set up the second slot with the Eye-Fi card that it should be recording Jpeg - I forgot to do this the first time - everything worked except that no images were transferred.

Hi Walter

You're shooting on a D800, so I take it that the CF card records RAW, and the Eye-Fi records JPEG. What size/quality JPEG setting do you use, and what are the JPEG file sizes? How long does it take to transfer?

[walterpike]

Hi Walter

You're shooting on a D800, so I take it that the CF card records RAW, and the Eye-Fi records JPEG. What size/quality JPEG setting do you use, and what are the JPEG file sizes? How long does it take to transfer?

@lefty Yes thats exactly correct.

I am still experimenting with the set up so don't take this as gospel - I am now using shuttersnitch because of the comments further down the thread that allows me to zoom into the image, and also shows other useful stuff, I have used M normal and at this setting my jpeg files are around 4 meg. 20.3Mp It goes through a 2 step process recieving then analysing. The entire process takes around 8 seconds.

With the same settings the eyefi native app is like half a second longer. allowing for the inaccuracy of my measurement to all intents and purposes the same.

S normal takes around 6 seconds and is perfectly adequate. (2.3 megs and 9Mp) so i will probably switch to that.

For both of them it takes a while for the connection between the card and the app to be established (it appears to be longer with the eye fi - app) but again I just tested it once so that I could answer you.

once the connection is established it just flows in 6-10 sec intervals (from when I press the shutter)

It frustrates me that I can't connect with the direct connection - but hopefully that will be sorted in the next firmware update.