{"id":3953,"date":"2011-04-23T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:42:31","slug":"eye-fi-card-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"Eye-Fi Card – wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Innovative New Feature Makes the Eye-Fi Even More Valuable<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A few months ago, I ran into Ziv Gillat<\/strong>, one of the co-founders of Eye-Fi<\/strong> at a photography trade show. His company developed a set of SD-cards that can send images directly from your digital camera to your personal computer by way of a local wi-fi network.<\/p>\n

For background information about these cards, you can read the original review of the Eye-Fi from a few weeks ago here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, Ziv was excited to tell me about a new feature that the company was developing. Finally last week, Eye-Fi unveiled a fascinating new capability for any of their X2 series cards.<\/p>\n

With this free update, the Eye-Fi can now send images directly to a mobile device – either an iPhone, iPad or Android. By itself, this provides an automated way to backup your images.<\/p>\n

On the mobile device, you’ll need to download and install either an iPhone\/iPad app or an Android app. These free mobile apps (also provided by Eye-Fi) receive the images from the Eye-Fi card.<\/p>\n

The apps provide another very useful feature – they let you resend the images to other online sites. And since they use cellular to upload, the mobile devices replace the personal computer.<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To use the new capability which the company calls Direct Mode<\/strong>, I downloaded and installed an update to the included Eye-Fi Center software that is used to configure the SD-card. Using one of the dialogs, I added my iPhone and Android device to my list of supported wi-fi networks. Next I installed the Eye-Fi iPhone app from the iTunes website (and later the Android app from Market) and I was ready to give Direct Mode a try.
\n<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
iPhone and iPad<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

First I inserted the Eye-Fi card into my DSLR camera and took a few pictures. Leaving the camera power on, I placed it about 20 feet from my iPhone. About ten minutes later, the images had been sent to my iPhone’s “Camera Roll” album.<\/p>\n

The time to transfer the images will vary depending on the size (resolution) and number of taken. At this point, my iPhone now has a complete backup copy of the images on the Eye-Fi card. Now I can view the photos as if they were taken by the iPhone camera, except that they are full resolution that match the DSLR camera.<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Using the iPhone Eye-Fi app, I can now select any or all of these images to share with the online sites. These include Facebook, Flickr, Mobile Me, Picassa, Eye-Fi View or a personal computer connected to the internet. I uploaded images to each of these sites to verify that the iPhone app was working as advertised.<\/p>\n

My iPhone was outdoors away from my home wi-fi network, so the images were uploaded using the 3G network (cellular service). Had my wi-fi network been available, the images would have been uploaded via wi-fi.<\/p>\n

Next I installed the Eye-Fi app on my iPad. And again the images were automatically sent from the Eye-Fi card in the camera to the iPad “Saved Photos” folder after a few minutes. The process worked flawlessly.<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n\n\n\n
Android mobile device<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For a second test, I inserted the Eye-Fi card into a point-and-shoot camera. Again I took a few more pictures and a short video with my point-and-shoot.<\/p>\n

I turned on and started the Android app on the Samsung Tab. With the camera power still on, I placed the camera close to the Tab and in a few minutes, these new images and the video were sent to the Tab’s “Gallery” folder.<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Using the Android Eye-Fi app, I selected a few photos and the video to share with Flickr.<\/p>\n

The orange wi-fi icon at the top left corner of the Tab means that the Eye-Fi card is transferring the images to Flickr.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: In order to get the Eye-Fi card to send the images to the Samsung Tab, I had to turn the Tab off and then back on. I don’t know if this is a common problem, but I am now contacting Eye-Fi Customer Support to see if there is an easy way to solve this problem.<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

I’m impressed with how easy it is to use Direct Mode. I plan to use it to as a “lazy man’s” way to have an immediate backup for my photos. As a bonus, Eye-Fi makes this an alternative way to post high quality photos to online sites without first having to copy them to your personal computer.<\/p>\n

To find out more about this innovative line of wireless SD-cards, visit Eye-Fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please note that Stay Focused has no connection to Eye-Fi.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Written by Arnie Lee<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Innovative New Feature Makes the Eye-Fi Even More Valuable   A few months ago, I ran into Ziv Gillat, one of the co-founders of Eye-Fi at a photography trade show. His company developed a set of SD-cards that can send … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238,181,8,202,24,4],"tags":[310,309,221,47,30,244],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-equipment","category-informational","category-review","category-technical","category-tips","tag-android","tag-backup","tag-eye-fi","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10435,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}