Eye-Fi SD Wireless cards

9 years 11 months ago #379063 by Office Guy
These are looking pretty tempting and I'm tossing around the idea of picking up one.  They say this card will upload the images directly to your computer.  Is it that simple? 


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9 years 10 months ago #379094 by Flash Steven
Too slow if you ask me

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9 years 10 months ago - 9 years 10 months ago #379098 by garyrhook
Let's see...

Wireless connection @ 54 Mbps (that's bits not bytes), which might translate to 5 MB / s, on a good day.

Image size of 16 GB (you are shooting RAW, right?) or larger for a current DSLR.

That's 16000 / 5 = 2960 s, or almost 50 minutes to transfer a single RAW file. [edited to get the numbers right]

Ain't nobody got time for that.

If you're using JPGs, well, then, whatever works for you. Still sounds too slow. Why rely on having a computer nearby?


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9 years 10 months ago #379202 by ShutterPal
LOL... great break down Gary, I was going to type out something similar.  You just gave more detail than I would have!  :rofl:


I think these cards would be good for point and shoot with JPG files.  Even then, ehhhh


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9 years 10 months ago #379240 by Stanly
The inherent problem with these cards is the current speed limitations in transfer rates 

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9 years 10 months ago #379412 by Dave Burburry
Tried one, honestly it was just too slow for me.  


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9 years 10 months ago #379606 by Ira Weber
My wife uses one of these and she doesn't like because it's quicker just to take the card out and download with card reader 


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