Using An Eye-Fi Card To Get Images Directly To Your Ipad
Lee Morris over at Fstoppers has a great video that explains how you can tether your camera to an iPad wirelessly. This kind of connection allows you to transfer photos to the iPad as you shoot.
You would need to get an Eye-Fi card, either a Pro card or a connect X2.
The nice thing about it is that you don't need to Jailbreak t
he iPad to create an Ad-Hoc wireless network. The new Eye-Fi card will do this for you and act as a router. (well, technically speaking it is not actually a router, but you get the point).
Sadly for mid range dSLRS (like the D300 that I shoot) it does not appear that Eye-Fi are going to release a CF version soon (or ever).
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Getting it to work with a CF card
I have a D300 too but don't worry, you can get this adapter and the Eye-Fi to iPad trick works amazingly well!!!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Turn-Your-CompactFlash-Card-Into-a-Wirele...
Enjoy!
re: adapter
Hi Ben,
have you tried that adapter, I am concerned about getting to much shielding from the CF enclosure.... would love to know if you get decent rates.
adapter
I have been using this CF-to-SD adapter for about two weeks:
http://www.amazon.com/SD-CF-II-Type-Adapter-Supports/dp/B000YZGCIU/ref=s...
It works flawlessly and even advertises compatability with Eye-Fi cards.
Works really well, I havn't
Works really well, I havn't had a problem with range through the CF adapter as it is mostly plastic and probably has a very minimal effect on the wifi signal. The delay from taking the picture to it displaying on my iPad seems to be about the same as Lee shows in the video demo. I've never had complaints from any of my clients... Enjoy!
Does this work with a Canon
Does this work with a Canon EOS 1000D?
re: Canon 1000D
Hi Pedro,
since the 1000D takes SD cards I don't see s reason this would not work.
WI-FI
It works fairly well. Don't expect to be shooting at really fast pace. It is slow at uploading the images. You can get a CF adapter and it will work. It sucks that they forgot about the CF users a bit of a dumb move on the companies part. Hopefully someone else will bring something faster down the road. Oh another thing make sure yo uhave spare batteries if you are using it as an adhoc. The card uses a lot of power and generates a lot of heat.
not adhoc
This device is not ad hockey. all of your images go to eyefi's servers and then back down to your display device. I've checked with them and they also keep your images evev if you delete your copy.
tim
Re: not adhoc -- not true
When the Eye-Fi Card is in Direct mode, it uploads DIRECTLY to the mobile device. It's not going through our servers. If you choose Eye-Fi View or an online destination, as well, it WILL go through our servers. But you can absolutely disable traffic from going to our servers, and also disable Relayed Uploads, which will guarantee that nothing will go to or through our servers.
Thx --
Ziv.
re: Ad-hoc
Hi Ziv,
Thanks for dropping by to say hi. Nice to to see the amount of engineering that was put into the cards. I used to work for Texas Instruments so I know what having a team tuned to user needs (so many of them with so many different needs) means in terms of frustration and juggling tasks.
Can Eye-Fi send photos directly to an ANDROID phone or tablet?
I understand that the Eye-Fi can connect directly to an iPad. My question concerns Android devices.
Android phones (and, I believe, Android tablets) can connect only to a WiFi hotspot; they cannot connect directly to another WiFi device via ad-hoc networking. My question is:
Can a camera with an Eye-Fi card deliver photos directly to an Android phone or tablet? (presumably, by "pretending" to be a WiFi hotspot?) If so, have you tested this on Android devices? What release of Android wouid be necessary for this to work?
Thanks!
Please take a look at these
Please take a look at these pages:
http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/features/direct-mode
http://support.eye.fi/mobile-applications/eye-fi-android-app/
DIrect mode is NOT ad-hoc. What you said about Android is actually much more true of iOS devices :-) They CANNOT connect spawn ad-hoc networks.
If you read more about Eye-Fi Direct you'll realize the following:
It's an Infrastructure based network. Any device or PC can connect to it, like normal Wi-Fi
The Eye-Fi Card creates the network, and the Android device wakes up and realizes that it's around a known Wi-Fi network. So it connects to us. Then, the card talks to the free app on the device, and uploads the media, directly.
Then, the Android device can upload that media to your PC, via your LAN, or to any sharing site, via 3G or 4G, or Wi-Fi.
Thx --
Ziv.
does this work with a nikon D3s?
does this work with a nikon D3s? this would be a great!
Nope. The D3s has 2 CF Type I
Nope. The D3s has 2 CF Type I slots. Eye-Fi maks SDHC cards.
Time to get a D7000 :-)
JPEG or RAW
Hi There,
Did anybody try this with RAW file ? Do you have to shoot jpegs (or RAW + jpeg) to have decent upload speeds to the iPad ? I have a Canon 600D (Rebel T3i in the US I think) and it outputs large RAW files (about 22 to 27Mo/picture). I'm really interested in this trick as I'm looking for a cheap (for someone who already owns an iPad) way to check pictures while doing Kite Aerial Photography. Not as good as LiveView, but could be great if it doesn't require 30 seconds to upload each picture.
Second question : is there any way to select content sent to the iPad in direct mode (for example shooting RAW + Jpeg on the camera and having only the Jpeg sent to the iPad...)
Thanks in advance for your answers.
The Pro X2 can upload JPG's,
The Pro X2 can upload JPG's, movies and RAW images.
The Eye-Fi Card upload, at best, at 12mbps. That's 1.5MBps. So divide your RAW image size, by 1.5, and that's how long it'll take the card to upload to the device or PC, ASSUMING the Wi-Fi is solid. As you go further and further away from the device, and the Wi-Fi signal becomes weaker, the card will transmit slower and slower, until it drops off. Then, when you get back into range, it will pick up where it left off.
You can upload RAW only, JPG's only, RAW + JPG, movies, or any combo. You have full control. Also, you can be selective. We have 2 modes: Selective Transfer and Selective Share. Read up more about them here:
http://support.eye.fi/upload-mode/
You can also transfer everything to the iPad, or selectively to the iPad, and then choose, in the iPad, what to relay to other detinations.
If you want the best RAW viewing experience, use ShutterSnitch. Brian did an amazing job, and made his app for pros. Our app has pros and cons, and his app has pros and cons. For example, our app can relay the media to your PC or to sharing sites, via our cloud, but his app handles RAW and has more pro features, but cannot upload to other sites, other than FTP.
Or, use both apps, and switch based on your needs :-)
Eye-fi card and canon 450d (Digital Rebel XSi)
The eye-fi card (8GB Pro) doesn't function on my Canon. When I try to switch on the camera the red led, aside from the memory card slot, doesn't switch off and the all the functions are frozen.Does somebody has experienced the same and has found a way to solve the problem ?Many thanks in advance
1dmk4 not working
I've got an eyefi connevct x2
i updated the firmware
went to eyefi centre and went to direct mode, slid the sliders, etc
turned off the home wifi unit
when the card was in the eyefi usb reader - no problem the ipad could see the network it had created
yet when i put the card in my 1dmk4 - nothing, nadda , zip seen by the ipad despit ethe samera being next to the ipad (updated to os5), and neither could my nokia n8
so a bit stuck
It sucks that they forgot
It sucks that they forgot about the CF users a bit of a dumb move on the companies part. Hopefully someone else will bring something faster down the road.
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