Eye-Fi or other similar card?

[carreauchompeur]

I'm preparing for my holibobs and am planning to use a wireless SD card to upload via an iPad mini straight onto Photobucket.

However, having looked at Wifi cards there seem to be various ones doing the same thing.

Anyone have experience of using them that can give me some pointers?

Ta

[markmullen]

I've used eye-fi for events where I was printing on site, me out shooting the guests, giving them a ticket with a file number, files transmitted back to a viewing station at the back with a dyesub where they can buy the prints. I do this for a charity and it makes them quite a bit of cash.

Re the eye-fi cards, they just work! One thing to note is you set them up in a card reader for the network you're going to use, which might be an issue when travelling.

Great product that does exactly what you want it to do.

[carreauchompeur]

Thanks... Have you used them 'direct' so to speak? I believe there is a function which doesn't require an external network.

[Jonsv8]

I use the apple card reader which works ok. Different solution and possibly cheaper

[ian in lancs]

Have had a couple of EyeFi cards and they work fine on my Nikon D800's, P7000 and Fuji X100s. I did try a Toshiba one but I couldn't get it working. Oh, and don't bother with the Eye-fi app, use 'shutter snitch' instead.

[carreauchompeur]

ian in lancs said:

Have had a couple of EyeFi cards and they work fine on my Nikon D800's, P7000 and Fuji X100s. I did try a Toshiba one but I couldn't get it working. Oh, and don't bother with the Eye-fi app, use 'shutter snitch' instead.

Thanks, so in theory then can you set up a direct link to an iPad and view the synced photos through that?

[ecsrobin]

carreauchompeur said:

ian in lancs said:

Have had a couple of EyeFi cards and they work fine on my Nikon D800's, P7000 and Fuji X100s. I did try a Toshiba one but I couldn't get it working. Oh, and don't bother with the Eye-fi app, use 'shutter snitch' instead.

Thanks, so in theory then can you set up a direct link to an iPad and view the synced photos through that?

As far as I'm aware you won't get a preview even using the app suggested. The image has to be downloaded to the iPad first and you do require a wifi network.

I got my dad an eyefi card and its superb. He comes back off holiday and as soon as it's connected all his images transfer to his iPad a very simple process.

I however used the SD to lightning cable as I can often be found in a field uploading images.

[carreauchompeur]

ecsrobin said:

I however used the SD to lightning cable as I can often be found in a field uploading images.

Thanks, it sounds like that might be a better solution as changing wifi networks all the time to wherever I am might be a pain.

[Jonsv8]

carreauchompeur said:

ecsrobin said:

I however used the SD to lightning cable as I can often be found in a field uploading images.

Thanks, it sounds like that might be a better solution as changing wifi networks all the time to wherever I am might be a pain.

It might be via a lightening connector but mine isn't lightening fast but works well enough.

It's worth thinking about shooting modes. I use RAW + JPG. The JPG can be accessed while out and about and full fat raw when I get home. I wish there was an option for lower res jpg only but I've not seen it

[carreauchompeur]

Thanks, I don't shoot in RAW so should be ok

[ian in lancs]

carreauchompeur said:

ian in lancs said:

Have had a couple of EyeFi cards and they work fine on my Nikon D800's, P7000 and Fuji X100s. I did try a Toshiba one but I couldn't get it working. Oh, and don't bother with the Eye-fi app, use 'shutter snitch' instead.

Thanks, so in theory then can you set up a direct link to an iPad and view the synced photos through that?

My eyelfi card generates its own wifi network. You logon the iPad to the eyefi wifi network and fire up shutter snitch. Take picture (jpeg) and shutter snitch downloads it and displays on the screen and will do so until the network is lost. Effectively it is tethered shooting without the wire. I have shot like this in a studio and the range - about 15ft. I've not tested further. What it won't do is live view.

On the D800 I set the compact flash card to Raw and the eyefi sd card for JPEG and that set up means the eyefi card capacity isn't a constraint. Also for faster transfer try different JPEG sizes and qualities. Finally set the camera to remain on otherwise auto off will drop the network.