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: Didn't fit
Summary: 1 Stars
The card did not fit in my camera. I was so excited to try this wireless card. I was disappointed when it didn't fit. I couldn't find any information on card size and camera compatability.Digital camera Review: Didn't work at first, but excellent customer service saved the day!
Summary: 5 Stars
This card is supposed to work "out of the box" but ours didn't. When you plug the USB adapter (with the card in it) we got recognition of a generic removable hard drive, but neither the instant set up wizard nor even the "Eye-Fi" icon/label of the drive.
I downloaded the Eye-Fi manager separately from their own website successfully and manually installed the manager. But, when I tried to run it, I was given the "insert a recognized card" message when the card was inserted.
I figured I had a dud and was about to return it, but I decided to contact Eye-Fi support first, on the off chance they had any suggestions. I got FANTASTIC (and almost immediate) email support with detailed instructions to reformat the card. (I would have thought that this would have ruined my chances entirely, but in fact it worked). I'll copy the instructions I was given below in case anyone else has the same problem as this is not on their FAQ or troubleshooting page.
Since then it has worked exactly as advertised. Sitting in the living room on our laptops snapping pictures, and then seeing them show up not two minutes later on Picasa was really cool, I have to say. Later, my mom took the camera to my niece's Christmas concert and as soon as she got home (and turned on the camera -- very important) the pictures uploaded to both the computer and Picasa without incident.
The only confusing part of the process was in the set up of a Picasa account, actually, and that's not the fault of the card at all. It's handy to know that you don't even need to set up the web album before configuring your card. When you are in the Eye-Fi manager and choose your online photo system (at least for Picasa), you'll be given an option at that time to create a new web album account.
I'm very pleased with this purchase, with the delivery from Amazon, and most of all with the customer service from Eye-Fi.
Here are the steps I was given for a "non responsive" card, though you may wish to verify with them before going through the process yourself. I know I felt more comfortable having an email from them that gave me permission to reformat! :)
Discussion Thread
Response (Wanda) - 12/18/2007 08:03 AM
Good Morning, Sarah,
Would you please be so kind as to try one more thing for me ;) Please format your Eye-Fi Card in your Mac by following these procedures:
1) Shut down the Eye-Fi Manager agent running in the upper right-hand corner of your computer by clicking on it and selecting "Quit"
2) Insert the Eye-Fi Card into the USB card reader and into a USB port on your MAC
3) Make sure that all of the pictures that you have on the Eye-Fi Card in the DCIM folder, and want to keep, have been transferred off of the card
4) Click on Go at the top of your Mac Finder window
5) Click on Applications
6) Double-click on the Utilities folder
7) Double-click on the Disk Utility icon
8) In the left side of the Disk Utility panel you should see "1.9 GB SD/MMC Card Reader"
9) Click on "No Name" underneath "1.9 GB SD/MMC Card Reader" to select it
10) Click on the "Erase" button in the middle near the top of the Disk Utility window
11) Choose "MS-DOS File System (FAT16)" from the "Volume Format" pull down menu
12) Enter "Eye-Fi" in the Name Field underneath the Volume Format field
13) Press the "Erase" Button in the bottom right-hand corner of the Disk Utility window and wait ... this may take several minutes.
14) Remove the Eye-Fi Card and USB card reader from the computer.
15) Double-click on the Eye-Fi Manager icon in your Dashboard and start the agent running again in the upper right-hand corner of your computer
16) Insert your card back into the USB card reader and into your computer
17) The Eye-Fi Manager should now launch
Please reply to me whether this procedure fixes your issue or not?
Have a wonderful day,
Wanda
Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
I was hoping to see the locations of the photos I've taken. Unfortunately I only get locations on about 20 percent of the photos I take. You have to be near a WiFi point. Another sore point is it drains the batteries in my camera uploading the pics. Takes over an hour to load 30 photos. If you use the adapter they provide you lose the metadata like location. Since I get so few locations of pictures, it's better that draining my batteries.
I can't recommend this card.
Digital camera Review: Disappointed, then Elated
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh the anticipation! Oh the excitement! It's here! It's here! Oh my, what great packaging! Oh. My. Previously registered to another user?? Oh, BOO. (that's not actually what I said). Wrote the good people at EyeFi, within a week had a new card (an _actually_ new card...not a reject from someone else) and WHAM--it worked flawlessly. This thing is SO cool. I use it with 3 Macs, iPhoto, Phanfare and Picasa. Rockin' technology, rockin' product. Highly recommend. Only wish would be to have it auto-detect and use available free/open WiFi networks. BUT, that said, GET ONE!Digital camera Review: Don't buy if you have satellite internet access!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very excited about this card, not so much for its ability to upload photos to an online album, but for the ability to automatically transfer the pictures to my computer's hard drive using the home network.
What they don't tell you is that if you have satellite internet access (the ONLY high-speed available in my rural location) the card is USELESS because you have to connect to the Eye-Fi server in order to configure the card, and the Eye-Fi server cannot be contacted using Hughesnet (something about proxies). What's more, even if you have an alternate dial-up access, unless your wireless router allows sharing a dial-up connection, the card will still be useless because you have to be on the network that the card will be configured to use when you configure it online. It's all very badly designed, to my way of thinking. Customer service seemed unapologetic. Suggested I buy a "travel router" (for about $100), take one of my computers to a non-Hughes wireless access point, configure it there, then bring it home and use the travel router as my networking router. Hello, excuse me I already HAVE a network router - I don't wish to buy another one just to make your piece of equipment work!