Eye-Fi Lets You Upload Photos Wirelessly

Eye Fi

For a lot of people, the area around and behind the computer is a blackhole of wires and cords. One for the printer, one for the keyboard, one for the scanner…do you really need to add your camera’s USB cord to all that clutter?

Enter the Eye-Fi, a 2GB SD card with wi-fi capabilities. Now you can transfer photos from your camera directly to your computer & the web with wi-fi!

Along with the 2GB SD card, the Eye-Fi also comes with a USB card reader installed with the set-up software. Insert the card reader into an open USB slot on your computer, setup a free Eye-Fi account, choose a network connection and you are ready to go!

After the setup is complete, just pop the SD card into your camera and each photo you take within range will automatically save to your computer and upload to the web. From Facebook to Flickr, chances are Eye-Fi will work with the site of your choice.

Another great feature of the Eye-Fi is that it will transfer full resolution images. Afraid your photos will be too big to upload to Facebook? No problem! The Eye-Fi will automatically resize pics for whatever site you are using.

For only $99, the Eye-Fi is a great deal and will make the time consuming task of transferring pics a thing of the past. What’s not to love?

This entry was posted by Daisy on Thursday, November 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm

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Richard 11/09/2007 06:23 PM 1 point
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Does this work over any WiFi network you happen to be able to connect to, or does it have to be through you home? I'm thinking of travel and such.

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Rob 11/12/2007 11:17 AM 1 point
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As long as you set up the router you wish to use, it will work. Won't connect via Starbucks, or any other free wi-fi spots, though.

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Chad 11/13/2007 02:44 PM 1 point
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can you upload files to the card from your computer via wifi?

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John 11/19/2007 10:23 PM 1 point
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How about those of us that shoot in RAW? Compatible at all? I don't care about uploading to the web, but it would be awesome if I could stream straight to a workstation in the studio...

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John 11/19/2007 10:30 PM 1 point
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Useful weblink: http://www.eye.fi/

Says only JPEG files can be uploaded. But what about just caching to the local computer? Pros don't care about facebook and other online services -- it would just be a great way to stream to the workstation. Anyone there know? Thanks!

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deslock 11/20/2007 07:06 AM 1 point
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I got to play with one of these a week ago as I know one of the BETA testers. It's very cool... while I was taking photos in the house, she watched them get uploaded to her online site (her network was WPA protected... apparently there is OSX/Windows software to setup the password/key). It also connects to public wifi spots, but only if they don't require a login (so you can't use it at Panera, for example).

She said they were planning to add video uploads at some point. I'd assume that at that point they'd also include RAW, but I'm speculating. I dunno if there will be file size limitations, but I expect there would be.

I didn't get to play with it long enough to see how drastically it affects battery life, but I was impressed enough by its convenience that I'll be getting one.

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Larry 12/17/2007 10:17 PM 1 point
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My pda supports an sdio wifi card. Would it be possible to use this card to access sites like Panera using windows mobile on my pda. San Disk used to make a 256k WiFi card which was supposed to work and there are other SD cards w/o memory that work. I would really like to try this card in my pda to see if it would work.
L.

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Dan H. 12/18/2007 04:56 AM 1 point
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Was out at DisneyWorld this last week, watching the crew of photographers working the crowd, and found myself thinking "If this doesn't already exist, somebody better put it together real soon"...

It is a natural application for multiple un-tethered cameras under a business model with a requirement for distributed point-of-sale printouts of images being captured across a wide area, giving relatively immediate access (i.e. "immediate gratification") to clients. Has an upside of no significant consumables wasted.

Interestingly, some probability that an efficient mechanism for communicating customer-specific info (for image tracking and retrieval, invoicing, etc) could be some type of whiteboard "form" that is basically captured by the same camera and inserted into the same data queue structure as the customer's images -- obviating any need for coordinating image data with some secondary communication channel...

Nice.

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mike 01/10/2008 09:09 AM 1 point
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when will a compact flash version be available?

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Braveit1 01/22/2008 03:10 PM 1 point
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"mike Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am
when will a compact flash version be available? "

I use the PNY sd to Compact Flash adapter to use this card in my Nikon D200.

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