I saw this blog post come across my twitter feed and thought it was a rather interesting discussion about a different way to use the EyeFi SD card if you are capable of doing this. http://mydl.me/2009/08/my-mieyefi/
I didn't know they were a podcast. ; Scott Bourne tweeted the link to the blog post, I read it and I like it. ; I think the blog is one of Scott's many
interesting... i wonder how a mi-fi would work with an eye-fi ; with a CF-SD adapter in a 5dMk2... ; whoa!
I don't know, Tim, there are at least two possible concerns. ; One is whether the camera keeps the card powered up the entire time. ; I've read of some problems with hardware that shuts down the cards when not writing to them. ; Number two is whether the diminutive antenna of the card would have any range left once you've embedded it in the CF adapter and then put that into your camera. ; I think some people have done it, but I've also read of some having troubles when trying to do this. I still think the eyefi is a bit of a gimmick. ; But then I'm not of the culture that goes around posting cameraphone pictures live to a web 2.0 social networking type site either.
Just read the blog Ray & I ahve to agree it is a great article. He does an excellent job of explaining the usefulness of both of these products.
I read somewhere that the creators of the EyeFi never really envisioned it being a product that would appeal to professional photographers and since professional photographers' cameras tend to use the CF storage media, they didn't create a version in the form factor. But, I noticed that the new Nikon D300s has decided to roll out with a dual memory card slots (for RAID1 redundancy or being able to split which card RAW and JPEG go to or to just use as RAID0), but unlike the Canon Mark II, the slots are two different formats (CF and SD). ; So, in theory someone with the Nikon D300s could have this setup mentioned in the article, put the EyeFi into the second slot of their camera and configure it to put the JPG's onto the SD card and let them fly into the cloud. But, considering the EyeFi card is only 2GB, it better have a configuration option to delete the pictures off the card after upload or one wouldn't get many pictures taken before it filled up
I would think the D300s would add the dedicated EyeFi menu option; for some reason I remember the D5000 has this. Now Canon's 1D series uses two memory slots, 1 CF and 1 SD. ; Nikon went differently and the D3(x) has 2 CF slots. ; So I have no clue how the 1D MkIV is going to be configured; I'm guessing it will be the same but it will be the first with SDXC.
It actually started with the D90 and after. ; Here's what Rob G has to say: "The D300s incorporates support for Eye-Fi's line of SD/SDHC memory/Wi-Fi combo cards. This includes an in-camera menu for starting and stopping uploads, plus a status icon on the rear LCD that shows when the Eye-Fi card is active. It's also likely - though we haven't been able to confirm this yet - that the D300s will be the latest Nikon to support the faster proprietary data transfer mode of SanDisk's Extreme III 30MB/s Edition and new Extreme SDHC cards." http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/conten ... 0041-10196
