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Then, when you’re out shooting, you launch the free Eye-Fi app and the pictures you’ve taken will be transmitted wirelessly from your camera to the app and saved at full resolution in the Camera Roll on your iOS device. Here’s how it works: you connect your iPad or iPhone to the Eye-Fi card once so that your iOS device remembers the name and password of your Eye-Fi card’s hotspot.

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With the Eye-Fi set to connect to my iPhone 4’s personal hotspot, it can share my iPhone’s cellular-data connection.īut even better was the introduction of “Direct Mode”, a feature rolled out in April for the X2 series of cards that turns the Eye-Fi card inside a camera into a portable hotspot.

you connect your iPad or iPhone to the Eye-Fi card once so that your iOS device remembers the name and password of your Eye-Fi card’s. First was the arrival of the iPhone’s personal hotspot feature, which eliminated the problem of the Eye-Fi card not being able to find a Wi-Fi network when I’m out taking a hike. The Eye-Fi app receives images directly from my camera. Without a Wi-Fi connection, there’s no way to send back the pictures and the geotagging feature won’t work, either.īut recently two developments have made me reassess the value of an Eye-Fi card. But camera interfaces just aren’t rich enough to give users control over the Eye-Fi’s features out in the field, and most of the places I take pictures don’t have Wi-Fi. Yes, they let your camera connect to a Wi-Fi network and upload photos to photo-sharing services and even back to your Mac, and there’s some Wi-Fi-based geotagging capability. But I have to admit, they’ve always been cooler on paper than in practice. All things working normally you should see the image appear on the web page.The Eye-Fi app receives images directly from my camera.I’ve been using the Eye-Fi series of Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards for a couple of years now. Thats not good enough for hostile environments, but its a security step up from 'none at all'. To carry this out you simply remove the card from the reader, insert it in your camera and take a photo. The assumption is that whether you connect to the Eye from a mobile device (thus proving you know the WiFi password) or you command the Eye to make itself available on a network, everyone on that network with a browser is considered 'trusted'. After launching the Eye-Fi app, tap the sign in link at the bottom of the screen and enter your new Eye-Fi account credentials.

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You're pretty much finished, all that's left is the initial upload test. First, you will need to activate & set up your ProX2 card using Eye-Fi Center software on your Windows or Mac computer. Folders named by date ('November 01, 2007' for example) are created for all images uploaded on that date. Lastly you choose the location on your computer where photos should be saved, on Windows by default this is an 'Eye-Fi' folder under your 'Pictures' (or 'My Pictures'). Alternatively you can choose to 'Add an online service later' as we did. Next you can choose to have your photos automatically uploaded to any one of twenty online sharing sites including Phanfare, Shutterfly, Picasa, Fotki, Smugmug, Flickr, Facebook etc. Note you can associate the card with multiple access points but you need to have the card in the Eye-Fi card reader connected to a computer (with the Eye-Fi Manager software) to configure it. A couple of tests and a few seconds later and your card is connected to the wireless network and you're on to the next step. Once registered the card will automatically search for access points and you'll be able to select your access point and enter your 'network password' (WEP or WPA key). Once the Eye-Fi Manager software is installed a web page will automatically load and requires you to create an Eye-Fi account.

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Installing the software and going through the new card registration process associates that card with that computer and becomes the default destination for images transmitted back.

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Whether you're running Windows or Mac OS X you simply insert the reader and card bundle into a spare USB slot and install the included Eye-Fi Manager software (this should happen fairly automatically). The Eye-Fi card comes in some very nice packaging which slides open to reveal the card and its USB reader on one side and a fold-out quick start guide on the other. Retailing at $99 it's not massively expensive either. As you can see from the image above the Eye-Fi card is the same size as any other SD card but contains not just a WiFi unit but also 2 GB of flash storage (an impressive enough feat alone). That said this isn't any ordinary SD card and it does offer something fairly unique WiFi connectivity and automated image transfer for any camera which takes SD. It's not often we review accessories, and we've never really reviewed an SD card, certainly not on its own.