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: Easily and Wirelessly Uploads Photos
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best new product I have ever seen! This card works perfectly with many of my SD cameras completely rendering cables useless!!
First off, the registration. A quick and simple registration (which you must have an internet connection for) helps you register the Eye-Fi Card with Eye-Fi's server to prevent unauthorized users from using *your* Eye-Fi Card. During the registration process, you also set up your wireless network (with your personal wireless DHCP enabled router), which works with Open, WEP or WPA encryption. It sends a test packet to the Eye-Fi Server, and once it verifies it's arrival, BAM! Your wireless network is set up. The next two are setting up your photo sharing accounts, personally, I use Webshots, and also directing your photos where to save on your computer. After that, you slap your Eye-Fi Card in your camera, take a picture and wammo! The picture is on the hard drive and on the photo sharing web site!
With so many new features added in the past few months, like geotagging and hotspot access on the Explore Card, this has become a necessity for anyone who uses a digital camera on a regular basis. I have not noticed any excessive battery usage on any of my cameras, which are two Nikons and a Canon.
Now, there are additional features, such as e-mail and SMS notifications, so if I'm not near my computer, I don't have to check the Eye-Fi Manager to see if my pictures have uploaded, my phone will tell me so.
It's a great product, but, please, don't buy this card with the intention that it will do what it is not advertised to do, such as create a wireless connection for your PDA, transfer RAW and movie files, send pictures back and forth between your digital picture frame and your camera. No, only JPG files, folks. And it does it flawlessly!
Digital camera Review: Excellent concept, good product
Summary: 4 Stars
Eye-Fi card is a good product, a bit slow on transfer and consuming the batteries at an estimated 3x rate compared with a regular card (due to the long "awake" times the camera needs to stay up in order to transmit the pictures - if there was any "hand-shake" between card and camera, probably it would be intelligent enough to inform "hey, I'm transmitting, I'll let you know when you can go to sleep mode" and not waste battery). Relatively easy setup, very nice packaging (simple but smart and fancy). I'm glad I purchased it, the pictures are usually in my computer by the time I finished taking snapshots of my son.Digital camera Review: Excellent idea, too few formats!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the convenience of this card. The download software is very easy to use. After initial setup, it works on it own! I like that it creates new folders by date as it downloads the photos. Makes organization quite easy. Download speed is quite fast. The only thing I would like is more formats for the cards (other sizes). This may not be technically possible, but I would buy another one for my small point-and-shoot camera as well, if Eye-Fi made a Memory Stick version... Great product!Digital camera Review: Excellent: Does exactly what it promises!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is exactly what I've been hoping for! I run a home-based business selling cashmere online. My photo studio is in the basement and my office is on the 2nd floor of our house.. With the Eye-Fi, I shoot my photos... walk upstairs to my office..and voila! -my photos are wrapping up their transfers.
I'm shooting w/ a Fuji Finepix S8000fd and typically am using 3GB resolution (due to their eventual destination online), and we've rigged our home network router with homemade parabolic antennas... so the average user may not experience the same fast upload from two floors away.. Still, initial installation took less than 5 minutes, and w/ instant downloads, I'm not wasting my time fiddling w/ cables anymore -what's not to like? Life is Good! Thanks Eye-Fi! :-)
~Kate
Digital camera Review: Eye -Fi Wireless Camera Card
Summary: 4 Stars
This works as advertised and is very easy to setup....My only negative comment would be it comes apart very easily, so handle with care !!!