New Toy! Tax return came back early so I decided I deserved a new toy. Picked up the Eye-Fi X2 Pro 8gb Sd card.
This is a sd card with built in wireless N, with it you can wirelessly download images directy to your pc or post the online to you flicker or other photo sharing accounts.
Setup: The software can be a bit vauge as to what information they are asking you for and the color choices they made can make the text hard to read at times however once set up you should not have to go into the software that often.
They do provide info on how to set it up with Lightroom so light room imports the photo automatically as soon as it is transfered to the pc.
The software reqires you to insert the sd card into a card reader attached to the pc to update the settings on the card for your wireless access.
The card can store settings for up to 32 different SSID’s.
The pro version supports Ad Hoc networking and hotspots however I have not gotten any of the hotspots to work correctly as of yet.
I am waiting on an sd to cf adapter to see if I can get it working with my D300 however eye-fi does not support or recommend this.
With the P7000 from Nikon it works fine. Tested it on my own wireless N network and an open network at a local coffee shop. could not get it to connect at the local starbucks.
In theory I should be able to take a number of photo’s the when my camera is in range and turned on it should send them to my laptop and my site.
Will play with this and see how it works out. One of the other features is Geotagging, now this is not a GPS but it takes a look at any wifi transmitters it can pick up an tags the photos with a geographic area, similar to the location tagging on the iPad.
One nice thing about this is if your camera gets stolen every time it gets near a hotspot turned on you will get copies of the photos taken with locations! This might make recovery possible.
All in all I am pleased with this purchase but will report on it more at a later date.
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