Eye-Fi memory cards

[Crow550]

http://www.eye.fi/cards/

I was thinking of either the 4gb share or explore....

The explore only offers wifi access in public....For $14 a year....As well as Geo-Tagging. I don't know how important these features are....

I just wanna snap photos and videos....Then have them upload to my pc, so I can edit them with Picasa 3 then upload for photo sharing and such.

What are the transfer rates of these cards? The Home, Share and Explore?


Where is the best place to get these these cards?

Thanks.


In second thought.....The price....Just seems like a jip.

 

[abaez]

I really don't understand the appeal of these things? If you are close enough to your PC to transfer photos over wireless why not just plug it in? And how would you know what photos are good or not to upload to flickr or picasa? Do people actually upload every photo they take?

Plus the geotagging only works if you have a wifi connection near you. Which basically means its worthless if you're not in a city (and even then it's iffy).

 

[Crow550]

Yeah.... I have no idea if I really want this?

I mean $80 for the Eye-Fi Share with 4gb of memory....

The Explore version is lame to me.

The wifi transfer to the pc seems kinda cool. Then again....Turn camera on for it to upload to your computer, no indicator of when it's done uploading.....So what's the point?

Plus allot of reports of dying cards....

I just use the usb cable with the camera. So I don't have to take the card out of the camera everytime.

Might as well go with a bigger and faster sd card instead. What is the fastest SD card? 8-16gbs should be plenty or overkill, maybe just a 4gb.

That and something about wifi and a chance of corrupted pics and videos....

Plus your right. It's not that hard to plug in a memory stick or camera. Unless wifi has a faster transfer rate than the fastest SD card.

 

[oogabooga]

I have a 2gb one I got as a gift and it's pretty neat. At the time the 2giger was 100 (I think.. 1-2 years ago?)

I don't know if the wireless transfer is any better but on mine the transfer rate was significantly slower than I could via memory card reader on USB (which seemed obvious) - but that being said it wasn't that bad. I have a point and shoot (canon SD1000) and it was pretty fast. (less than a couple seconds per picture - pictures being ~3.5MB).

If you're near the computer you can see which images are being transfered - but there is nothign on the camera itself.

I'll be honest : It has had mostly novelty value for me - I can't tell you how much fun I've had telling people "hey, I bet I could get a picture of you online in like.. 1 minute" or "let me test out my camera, I got a new preview thing" then taking a picture, and then browsing to it on the computer/web watching them go "what the heck" or "oh that's neat.. wait how'd you do that?"

Besides the novelty value I can't say that it has been particularly useful. It's nice just turning my camera on near my computer and then knowing the pictures are being synced. For me though it's not a feature I'd be particularly willing to pay for (as I don't have a problem just pulling the memory card out and using a card reader). I'm the kinda person who just takes pictures and don't care about deleting bad ones I just keep them all so I don't care that it just uploads them all.

My verdict is : It's fun to own, have, use but I don't think I would have paid for one if I didn't get one as a gift. I'm not even sure where mine is since on my last trip i filled up the 2gb card and ended up switching to a standard memory card. If you really want to know I can find it and test it out for you. I haven't had reliability issues with mine.

I don't think I have Geotagging or dont' know that I do/how to setup - but I would imagine most of the time I would want a geotag i'd be outside of a wifi signal (like hiking in the hills or something).