Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION) by Eye-Fi
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Digital camera reviews of Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
Digital camera Review: 5/5 cept it resets my camera without picture loss though
Summary: 3 Stars
I LOVE this product. I truly am taking a million more pictures now that I own this product (with the help of Picasa 3 from Google, too!). The box that this comes in is even very innovative - played around with the box for awhile before I even played with this.
I had no problem setting it up with my wireless network. Only pain is, you can't obviousily connect to other password protected wireless networks unless you set it up before hand using your laptop or deskopt computer (you must use the included SD/USB adapter, and then it writes the password into this SD card).
The only other problem, resulting in -2 stars, is that it makes my Casio camera "reset". While I don't lose and haven't lost any of my pictures, my camera takes about 3-5 seconds longer to turn on now. Also, every once in awhile (I think if my camera is slightly bumped), my camera thinks I just replaced the batteries, and I have to re-set the date and time. Very annoying when I want to take pictures very fast, but have to add the date and time in again.
The card also makes the screen on my Casio camera appear a little more blurry, and a lot more blue.
Overall, DEFINITELY worth it, without a doubt. I could be taking pictures in one room, snap the picture, walk over to my computer and already see it uploaded to my computer and to Picasa Web Albums (free product) INSTANTLY. All of my pictures will be backed up for life!
Digital camera Review: 600 images
Summary: 4 Stars
I used the 2GB Eye-Fi to take over 600 images in 3.5 hours of Santa and kids during our company's children's Christmas Party. I decided to use the Eye-Fi so parents could pick out the best images in near real time. The setup
Canon 40D
SD to CF adapter
D-Link DWL -G730 Portable access point
Adobe Lightroom 2 software monitoring the eye-fi folder
Pros
The card transferred 600 5MB JPEG images about as fast as I took them.
The images were also saved on the card as a backup.
No internet connection was needed once configuration was done.
Cons
I had to connect the Access point to the internet for initial setup
The battery drain was significant about 250 images per charge
I will not use the Eye-Fi for general photos but anytime I want people to see images as soon as they are taken, this is a good solution.
Digital camera Review: A word about support
Summary: 4 Stars
I got the Eye-Fi card and it didn't work. New and right out of the box it did nothing. I could see that it didn't have a notch cut out to enable writing to the card, but I decided not to play with it and get in touch with support. It was late, so I sent an e-mail and in the morning I called and spoke to a tech who processed the return (they were smart enough to match the written and verbal request). There was some delay because I had to reply to their email in order to process the return (defeating the expediency of the phone call). I sent them the entire Eye-Fi with box (had to be priority mail) and got a new one in the mail two days later. I'm really annnoyed to be out $6 and the inconvenience of the RMA because their quality control missed cutting out a notch in the card. In the end I have a working unit, but the excitment I felt about getting the card is gone.
The Eye-Fi manager is easy to use. I do wish they put the MAC address somewhere. I filter my wireless router by MAC and I had to run through several iterations of failiures before the EYE-Fi manager gave me that information. Once I got it, the software loaded properly and it works fine (if a bit slow but that could be for many reasons). I'd prefer a registration process that doesn't require internet access or require a firmware update before proceeding.
The packaging is impressive, but I'd rather have had a working unit on the first try. I have been waiting for such an option for my Canon EOS XT and purchased a SD to CF card adapter. I'm going to try it out with a number of different configurations.
Digital camera Review: Always great; now better
Summary: 4 Stars
We've had a couple of cards since they came out. The latest improvements, some simple, like custom file names continue to make the card more useful. It's a great product.
We use it with an office camera to capture whiteboard information. Map a drive to a network share and everyone has access.
The other way we use it is at events. We set it up to drop pics on a Flickr feed and automatically update our company website with event photos.
Highly recommended and always being improved.
Digital camera Review: Amazing Device With A Little Surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Eye-Fi for my sister. She's still in College and must take a picture of every exploit and put it on Facebook ASAP, so I thought this would be perfect for her. We set the card up on my PC at my house across town so she could get a feel for it. Everything worked perfect, easy setup. But what happened next was...unexpected?
She took the camera back to her place and a couple of days later she got a new tattoo and took some pictures. To my surprise they started to upload directly to my PC. Because not only is there an option to upload directly any site like Facebook or Flickr but you can upload directly to your PC. Because she never changed her setting in her Eye-Fi account, it uploaded to my PC.
I got to thinking how cool of a feature this would be. Someone could be on vacation, taking pics, upload them right to Grandma's PC. Within minutes, she can be viewing what her grandkids have been doing all day.
And to add to the awesomeness of the whole situation even more I remembered that my Sister had a Kodak Wireless Digital Picture Frame. It auto cycles the picture from any folder destination on yer PC! So it uploads to Grandma's PC, then automatically to the picture frame. Timeline looks like this:
Take Pic - Auto Uploads Pic once you get back home - Uploads to Eye Fi Manager site - Sends to Facebook (or wherever) - Sends to Desktop - Picture Frame cycles to new pics from Desktop.
Amazing. I'm sure there are business applications to all of this as well but I thought I would add a personal touch to it. Congrats Eye-Fi.