I tried searching this, but I keep getting an error message, on the forum. Thinking about getting an Eye-Fi SD card, but reviews are mixed. Anyone here using one? Thanks.
I tried searching this, but I keep getting an error message, on the forum. Thinking about getting an Eye-Fi SD card, but reviews are mixed. Anyone here using one? Thanks.
I'd like to resurrect the thread and get some folk's experience with this card and higher end cameras, exporting to the iPhone or iPad.
My wife loves to take artistic photos with her iPhone 5. I'd like to upgrade her to a real camera. The Sony RX100 takes DSLR quality photos in a compact camera. People are raving about it. My wife could fit this in her purse. But if the workflow of using this camera, then editing photos, applying effects, and uploading to social media is much more complicated than just using her phone, she won't do it.
My plan: get this camera and equip it with an Eye-Fi card and associated app on the phone. She takes pics, selects the ones she wants, uploads them to the phone, edits, and posts to social media.
Questions: Does anyone do this? Does it work well? The camera I mentioned takes 20.5 MP photos! How well does the iPhone 5 handle these? What photo editing apps can handle them? Do they downsample before editing or can they edit native? Does it make sense to dial down the camera to a lower photo resolution before shooting? I'd say 99% of the time 10 MP would be fine.
Thanks for help and input on this.
Unless Eye-fi has changed their policy and firmware significantly over the past year I won't use it.
It's always felt severely crippled by its reliance on Eye-fi's servers. Odd they don't allow it to FTP directly to a home server or NAS. Add to that it can't connect to an access point unless you have a PC handy to set it up. No in camera menus, even on supported cameras it's just a little battery draining ,slower than molasses transfer, with an on screen icon.
The RX100 is an excellent camera, but I wouldn't stick an Eye-fi card in it.
Unless...
You could transfer directly from the Eye-fi to the iPhone adhoc (doubtful)
Or
Get an iPad and a camera connection kit instead. Get PhotoSync and a Blogging app. Win.
I don't use their online service. You don't have to to upload/download. Unless you want to manage the files in the cloud.
I do everything with the desktop software. But I agree - not being able to change things on the fly is a detriment. As is the overall speed for "real" files.
I could not get an AdHoc network working with my iPhone a year ago, so I gave up on the Eye-fi.
My only interest in the Eye-fi is transfer from the camera to the iPhone in the field, so that my wife can edit and upload photos to Facebook or wherever else, while keeping a high quality original of the photos on the Eye-fi SD card. At home, I will just plug the camera or phone into my desktop and transfer the originals that way.
Given this, can I avoid the online service? Is the transfer speed reasonable, especially if we hand-pick which photos the Eye-fi transfers?
How is photo editing on the iPhone using iPhoto, Photogene2, etc. with the 20.5 MP image files from this camera? We don't necessarily need to maintain full rez for the purposes of editing on the phone but I just want to know that it works (even if it downscales when opening the image). If I want to do high-end editing, I'll load the photo from the camera into Photoshop on my PC and do it right.
thanks!
Does anyone have experience using the EyeFi in a SD-CF adapter? I've got a 5DMKII that only takes CF cards.
Thanks
EDIT*
Amazon to the rescue!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SD-Card-CompactFlash-Adaptor/dp/B002F1SGDU
I'd like to use it, but supposedly it won't work with my CF adapter.
Can it push originals straight into Lightroom or an open folder on an iMac? I've got no use transferring images to my iPad to be honest.
Yes. When I was using my EyeFi card with my iMac and 5D Mark III on my home Wifi, I could take a photo, and it would transfer directly to a folder in my Photos folder). From there, I could import the transferred photos into Aperture.