Good thing not everyone is identical, eh? I have still frame security cams in remote places, and this would be perfect to grab my picture files, without having to compromise the location of my cam.

theimmc wrote:There are specific situations when this can be useful. Basically, you have to ask yourself if there is any situation where having the photos available near instantaneously is useful. I think there are probably only 3 times in the past 5 years I can think of where it would be useful for me.

Does anyone have one of these working with the Nintendo Wii? I am tempted to buy one for this purpose.

gkoprulu wrote:These simply DO-NOT work.. look at the rateingns in large volume sites like amazon..

way too many faulty units..

heads up to all wooters

Damned 4 out of 5 stars! ... wait, that's good.

I'm in! This is a great deal, I 've always wanted one of these but never found the $40+ price tag worth giving up my 16 GB Class 10.

This will make loading photos while I'm shooting product photos at work way easier!

gkoprulu wrote:These simply DO-NOT work.. look at the rateingns in large volume sites like amazon..

way too many faulty units..

heads up to all wooters

Mine does.
The first one crapped out in two weeks, but the replacement from eye-fi has worked perfectly for many months and 3 or 4 thousand shots (jpg/RAW/video).

Refurb? On an item THIS small, that worries me what can they 'refurb' in them?

rickyharper wrote:Anybody try one in a GoPro?

Successfully, yes. Only warning is that for as large as the videos can be from a GoPro, in that instance it really may make more sense to just transfer manually. If you want to do timelapse or take individual photos and you're within your network, that more than keeps up, though with wireless transfer.

I guess I'm old school, I'm still shooting with a Canon Rebel XT with compact flash cards...

What does the RAW upload ability mean? Is it important/necessary? (I have a Kodak Z990 [acquired from Woot by the way] if it matters.)

Can anybody recommend a Compact Flash adapter that works with the eye-fi?

todesco wrote:Actually,
Step 3: Delete the pics in the camera so you don't get confused as to which you have uploaded or not. And DON'T use the camera's software, use your OS to copy them.

No need to delete. Just use the MOVE command instead of COPY.

pvandehey wrote:What does the RAW upload ability mean? Is it important/necessary? (I have a Kodak Z990 [acquired from Woot by the way] if it matters.)

RAW is (mostly) the direct image captured by the camera sensor, without any post processing. JPG (what most people are familiar with) is that same image, but then run through whatever post processing routine the camera does.

RAW format is very useful for other post processing color manipulation/correction. But it does require post-processing.

Your Z990 does support shooting in RAW format, but if you never use it, no problem.
(and if you're asking the question, you've probably never used it)

info on RAW here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

rickyharper wrote:Anybody try one in a GoPro?

I was wondering the same thing. I wonder if you could use a GoPro as a dash cam and transfer the video to a laptop as you drove. Or do you have to be near a WiFi hotspot?

ptr wrote:Nothing is wrong with that.
However, the eyefi reduces it to one step:
1. Take pictures

I can be shooting out in the backyard, and by the time I come inside, it's already done. No cables, no taking the card out...nada.

I have the ProX2, and I think I've taken the card out once this year (to tell it about a new wifi on the laptop).

Well, unless your computer and router are on while you're shooting in the backyard, you'll still have to turn them on. Physically moving the card then is not such a hardship during bootup. And frankly, my guess is that very few people shoot photos in their backyard (or at home) very often. Most of the time, WiFi is nowhere to be found. So unless you're an on-site photographer (i.e. inside a studio) who needs continuous real-time transfer of photos, this doesn't seem that useful.

FYI: There's a "bottomless card" mode that isn't what you might think it is, from the description given. Even in that mode, it is possible to fill up the card. The card can only delete uploaded content when it has been remounted in some way. Usually when the host device has been turned off and then on, or the card has been re-inserted after removal.

I bought one of these for my trip to Europe in May and it was fantastic! It instantly uploaded to the website and when I was in range of my tablet and/or PC, it downloaded the pictures directly there as well. You do have to remember to keep the camera on for as long as it's uploading or you may not get all of your pictures. This does drain the battery power from the camera, but I bought 4 really cheap batteries for my camera before I left, so I never found this to be a problem. It also does not geotag pictures taken at home because my "home" location has not been tagged by a wifi network and home networks do not count. I never had a problem with it geotagging in Europe except in fairly remote locations. Not having to connect your camera or SD card directly to the computer means I now have pictures available as soon as I take them. I love this product!

crsf29 wrote:Macbook air, no SD slot in the 11". It's like you're arguing that a vegetable peeler is useless because every kitchen has a knife. Specific use-Specific Purpose.

I'm in for two. =)

I never said that it was useless. All inventions are/were useful to someone at some point in time. What I said that it seemed pointless because there are so many easy and cheaper ways to accomplish the same task. The 11" MacBook Air has a USB port. Get a $5 SD card reader. I've seen some that are as small as a normal size SD card. In fact, some SD cards have a USB jack built-in. Unlike this Eye-Fi card, that card reader has multiple uses beyond a one-way transfer of photos.

The way you described this card makes it sound like a luxury Mac accessory specifically made for the 11" MacBook. Fact is, virtually all notebooks have an SD slot or USB port. And virtually all smartphones and tablets (at least in the Android camp) will accept SD or MicroSD cards. If you phone/tablet uses MicroSD and your camera uses SD, simply put the MicroSD card inside an SD adapter for use inside the camera. The below adapter allows MicroSD cards to be used in a regular SD slot as well as an USB port.

qreply wrote:My wife was constantly removing the SD card in her camera to upload the pictures then forgetting to put the card back in her camera. She would pull out her camera when we got somewhere then "No Memory Card".

I got her the 4GB model a while back (at a lot higher price) and even at that cost, it was well worth my sanity to get her one.

It was a little buggy getting setup at first but has worked like a charm ever since.

We had the same problem so I simply bought another SD card. Even made a little see-thru pocket to put the card on the camera's body. We know to put the spare card in whenever we remove the SD card for transferring.

bsegreto wrote:Anyone get the geotagging to work with these?

Does it somehow geotag based on where you take the picture? I read their website and it seems to geotag "as" the pictures are uploaded, which is not helpful if I take a picture where there is no open wi-fi.

I've had one about a year. Don't use it. Locks up my Sony A33 when taking rapid shots. I guess it's trying to find and re-find the satellites. Slow upload, wire is faster. I've gone back to an appropriate photo SD card. Way faster than this thing.

gboisseau wrote:Good thing not everyone is identical, eh? I have still frame security cams in remote places, and this would be perfect to grab my picture files, without having to compromise the location of my cam.

Why not use wireless cameras like most security setups? Woot sells them all the time. Some work through WiFi while others broadcast without it. All photos and videos are saved onto a central hard drive so the cameras' locations won't be compromised either.

Picked up the 8GBX2 on a previous Woot. I loved it for months, but around the same time mine started to throw fits, I also started shooting RAW.

Eye-Fi did replace the card quickly, so no issues there. However the transfer times for large RAW files I found prohibitive for anything beyond a limited number of shots.

A sporting event where I might take 200...forget it...I still pop the card out of the camera.

Other than that, it's a cool little device. JPGs move over reasonably quickly, although with its tiny internal antenna, you'll find transfer times increase the further you are away from your AP. And that doesn't take very far to happen.

As others mentioned, the geotagging comes from whatever access point the card is in contact with at the time the photo is taken, or uploaded if no AP was available previously.

I have used the connections to my android tablet and iPhone for "in the field" reviews, and when I do I shoot RAW+ (raw + jpg), and configure them to only be ent the JPGs.

When I was shooting straight JPG, I got a realy kick out of taking photos at parties around the house, or lunar shots in the driveway, and by the time I came in all the photos were waiting.

Anyway, at this price, go for it!

sdc100 wrote:So unless you're an on-site photographer (i.e. inside a studio) who needs continuous real-time transfer of photos, this doesn't seem that useful.

Isn't it amazing how different people have different needs and wants. I've found this thing *very* useful and convenient.

If I'm somewhere else shooting, when I get home I just need to turn the camera on, and it starts to sync. No further action needed.

Or, at a recent major family reunion, it allowed distant family members to see, almost in real time, what was going on.
Shoot, sync through the laptop, upload directly to a shared Flickr folder. I didn't have to stop every once in a while, upload to the laptop, then upload to Flickr.

Step 1. Take pictures
Step 2. GOTO Step 1
Step 3. There is no step 3

I understand if some people might not find this useful. But *I* do.

I bought one here last time around. I don't like it overall. It works, but not reliably. You have to be very close to your router or the transfer will fail, draining lots of battery in the process. Yes, this card will cut your battery life in half, at best, and slaughter battery life at worst.

My big complaint is that any time you want to adjust the transfer settings at all (like to tell it to upload to an iPad, etc) you need to take the card out and plug it into a computer. I find myself plugging it into my computer all the time, which sort of defeats the point. Also, say you go on vacation and want to adjust settings--you can't. You can only do that at home, where you have the eye if adapter and home PC.

For this kind of money, I'd suggest just getting a really big, fast, regular card. I bet it saves you time in the end. Cards these days are so big and fast, it's not like you needed to pop the card out that often anyway.

mooflower wrote:Is this just for the card or the card AND the adapter?

ummmmm did you read the Specs and what comes in the box?

pditoro wrote:...Twice I've resorted to Woot when the refurb Woot I bought went south, both times Woot made me whole. Worked for me.

Man, I wish I'd considered this -- I've had bad luck with a couple purchases: a Tom Tom XXL GPS that was, quite simply, the worst item I've ever bought online - didn't work at first to upgrade maps, then by the time that was resolved, I discovered that it could not hold a charge at all. Useless, in a box at home. And my DreamSpa has a bad hose...

Now that I rehash it to myself (and the Woot audience), I think I'll pass on the refurb Eye-Fi.

sdc100 wrote:I never said that it was useless. All inventions are/were useful to someone at some point in time. What I said that it seemed pointless because there are so many easy and cheaper ways to accomplish the same task. The 11" MacBook Air has a USB port. Get a $5 SD card reader. I've seen some that are as small as a normal size SD card. In fact, some SD cards have a USB jack built-in. Unlike this Eye-Fi card, that card reader has multiple uses beyond a one-way transfer of photos.

The way you described this card makes it sound like a luxury Mac accessory specifically made for the 11" MacBook. Fact is, virtually all notebooks have an SD slot or USB port. And virtually all smartphones and tablets (at least in the Android camp) will accept SD or MicroSD cards. If you phone/tablet uses MicroSD and your camera uses SD, simply put the MicroSD card inside an SD adapter for use inside the camera. The below adapter allows MicroSD cards to be used in a regular SD slot as well as an USB port.

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Or, instead of carrying around two or more devices, buy the Eye-Fi and carry around one. That way, you don't have to fiddle around with tiny, fussy adapters and you can automate the process without even thinking about cables.

remirol wrote:Android phone + Dropbox free app does this already.

What he said.

editorkid wrote:Or, instead of carrying around two or more devices, buy the Eye-Fi and carry around one. That way, you don't have to fiddle around with tiny, fussy adapters and you can automate the process without even thinking about cables.

What cables? Many SD readers have no cable and they're as small as a USB memory dongle or smaller. I've never used an SD reader that was fussy in any way. Simple Plug and Play. There really is no fiddling involved, and none of the setup invloved with Eye-fi. I transfer my photos whenever I recharge my camera. The SD adapter is placed inside my camera case and takes up virtually no room. From what I understand, this card is not as automated as a lot of people claim since you still have to turn on your camera, computer and wifi setup. If I have to turn on the camera anyway, it's not much of a fuss to remove the card as well.

You only need a subscription for their cloud service that allows you to browse via web any picture you've taken. Otherwise you can browse via web any pic from the last seven days.

not from a camera it doesn't.

editorkid wrote:Or, instead of carrying around two or more devices, buy the Eye-Fi and carry around one. That way, you don't have to fiddle around with tiny, fussy adapters and you can automate the process without even thinking about cables.

I don't carry around anything extra since I don't need to transfer photos outside of my home, office or hotel room. My SD memory reader stays wherever my laptop is, and is always in a pocket in my laptop case. I might look into one of those SD cards with a built-in USB plug, however.

I have one of the 8GB models which I use with my Sony NEX-5. It is quite good in general, although there are a few fiddly annoyances I have with the way it does things. In particular, it uploads all the photos to a central server which your computer then downloads from, which can be kind of slow and uses a lot more bandwidth than it would if the card could just send directly to your computer if you're on the same network. Also, at least the Mac version of the software is kind of fiddly and reeks of "we didn't want to write our software for the Mac, we just ported it from Windows badly." There's a lot of not-invented-hereness to the interface in general, too.

On the plus side, it works quite well, and integrates reasonably well with iPhoto. It makes it a lot easier to justify shooting in RAW because I don't have to worry as much about filling my card up.

It would be nice if the Android app would let you configure the card's WiFi settings, but as long as you have a computer with USB port available you can generally get it set up. There's also opensource Linux tools for configuring the WiFi, and apparently you can also use it to change its upload behavior to go to your own server as well, if you don't want to rely on Eye-Fi's servers for whatever reason.

I do wish the Eye-Fi software itself had RAW support, though; it's annoying to just see the blank 'unknown image format' placeholder icon instead of a thumbnail of the actual image in question. Since I got the card primarily for dealing with RAW it's annoying that they don't even try to support it directly. (I realize that RAW is a gigantic quagmire, but there are some very good open-source libraries for dealing with RAW from basically every vendor, and MacOS also has excellent camera RAW support built-in.)

All in all I'm happy with it, even with its glitchy rough edges. Of course, $50 is a very good price for the 8GB model, so if you're in the market for something like this, it'd be silly to pass it up. At this price I'd get another one but I'm in the process of moving and don't have a reliable shipping address just yet. Sucks to be me.

terawoofer wrote:ummmmm did you read the Specs and what comes in the box?

Yes, but I had my left eye closed. Technically, I didn't see the adapter listed.

I'm a little surprised at some of the misinformed comments about these cards. I did some research before my purchase and folks should really look at the official website for the features:

http://www.eye.fi/products
http://www.eye.fi/products/prox2
http://www.eye.fi/products/connectx2

There are several features included in the Pro that aren't on the Connect:
1) Ability to transfer RAW files
2) Unlimited geotagging (it's 29.99 to add to the connect)
3) 1-year subscription to hot spot access (only needed to upload away from your wifi or your computer / iphone / iPad ... if any of those are close to your camera, you don't need wifi as the card produces it's own network)
4) Ability to create ad hoc network with your computer

The only thing that gave me pause is the Class 6 versus my current Class 10, but this is only an issue at heavy burst shooting with my Canon T3i ... or lots of HD video

Hope all that get the card enjoy ... I'm confident that i will.

KennyZ308 wrote:Will this card work with a first generation iPad?

Do you see any USB ports or memory card slots on it? That's a big No. Another case of Apple choosing form over function, and their customers get the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

So.....does this do pretty much do what my Samsung Galaxy S2 already does such as taking a pic and sending it to social sites, email or messaging? The only advantage I see is wirelessly adding them to your PC from a remote connection? Or do you have to be connected to WI-Fi to do that too?

I have a 2GB one I got from Google. The wifi feature is quite unreliable. I think using a larger, class 10 SDHC is a better choice. You could get a 16 GB one for considerably less than the more expensive option. I think I paid around $17.00 for one recently.

bsegreto wrote:Anyone get the geotagging to work with these?

Does it somehow geotag based on where you take the picture? I read their website and it seems to geotag "as" the pictures are uploaded, which is not helpful if I take a picture where there is no open wi-fi.

I bought one of these on a previous Woot and am fairly disappointed. I'm pretty sure it geotags where you take the picture, not where you upload it. However, the geotagging is based on Wi-Fi networks that the card sees in the immediate area which makes it useless for mountain hikes, which is where I take most of my pictures. The other big disappointment for me is that it didn't geotag RAW photos, though it's possible that they've added this in the last few months.

Prime Suspect wrote:Do you see any USB ports or memory card slots on it? That's a big No. Another case of Apple choosing form over function, and their customers get the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

It will probably work fine with the camera connection kit for the iPad since it adheres to the SD standard. There's an Eye-Fi app for the iPad, but you may want to look to check functionality on it. I think you can actually have the card use the app and transfer directly to your iPad, but I haven't tried that myself. Nice rant, though, Prime Suspect.

I have a Eye-Fi Share Video and had the original Eye-Fi. Yes, not cheap & at times drove me crazy but don't regret it. Best use: the time where I couldn't find my camera and couldn't remember when I used it last. After hunting around the house, I sat down at the computer and looked at last upload. I immediately knew where the camera was hiding.