hotspots including Starbucks coffee shops and Harborlink hotspots such as BP gas stations. Eye-Fi users have automatic free connectivity at 21,000 U.S. Not all SD-supportive cameras are compatible with Eye-Fi SD cards.Īnd it doesn't require a mobile hotspot in your pocket for Eye-Fi to be useful on the go. 2 gigs and you can accidentally swallow it. Its an SD memory card, looks, acts, works, IS an SD card. This will no doubt vary from camera to camera, and I intend to test it with other models to corroborate. I bought her a 4 gig 'Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card.' Seriously, this thing is bananas. In the three days I've been using it, I have not run out of battery any quicker than I would have if I was using a regular SD card.
Though the Eye-Fi helps heat up my camera very quickly, it has not had an appreciable effect on its battery life. Eventually, however, it managed to get itself installed and has been running ever since. Eyefi Connected cameras are able to control various functions of the Eye-Fi Cards, including the ability to manually turn the Wi-Fi feature on/off.
Approximately 400 models from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Casio and others also include Eyefi firmware built into their cameras under the Eye-Fi Connected branding. I first tried it on a Vista PC, but it kept crashing it, and then I tried it on a Mac running the older 10.4 Mac OS, and it also did not want to work after half a dozen attempted installs. Eye-Fi Cards are compatible with virtually all digital cameras manufactured since 2010.
EYE FI CONNECTED SOFTWARE
The only troublesome aspect of the X2 was installing the software on my computers. Additionally, it can send video to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, SmugMug and Photobucket. Eye-Fi offers 28 different destinations that your photos can be sent to. I stuck to sending all the photos to Picasa, but I could have chosen Flickr, Snapfish, Photobucket, Shutterfly, MobileMe, Fotki, Facebook, Whrrl, Evernote, Dotphoto, SmugMug, TypePad, or even to a custom FTP site.
EYE FI CONNECTED DOWNLOAD
When I finally get to sit down in the press room, all the photos are up, sorted by date, and geotagged online, and when I connect my computer to a hotspot, the photos automatically download to my Eye-Fi desktop folder. While I have been concentrating on getting exciting shots, Eye-Fi has quietly been uploading them to photography-sharing sites the second they're snapped. Short of having a camera with a built-in mobile broadband module, this is the best way to shoot pictures. So I've been walking the showfloor with a WiMAX hotspot in my backpack, and the Eye-Fi Connect X2 in my point-and-shoot Canon.
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