Eye-Fi Pro 4 GB SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-4PC
by Eye-Fi
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: Eye-FiModel: EYE-FI-4PC
Product features:
- Stores photos and videos like a standard memory card
- Wirelessly uploads your photos and videos via Wi-Fi or Ad-Hoc to your computer no router required
- Share your memories with your favorite photo and video sharing, printing, social networking or blogging website even when your computer is off
- Intelligently handles your photo and video uploads
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Eye-Fi Pro 4 GB SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-4PC
Customer Review: works very well, had to buy a second one
Summary: 5 Stars
Installation went exactly as expected on my windows xp pro system. The packaging is minimal and simple, as is the instruction book. The simplicity is deceptive as you must understand how your wifi network works if you choose to use the adhoc network setup.
Web registration is required to register the device even if it will be used with adhoc networking.
The range of this device is not as good as other wifi devices, I suspect that the antenna crammed inside the sd-slot within a camera reduces the effective range of a device like this. I found the card would detect networks but at the edges of the network footprint it would not transfer images. Battery drain is noticeably higher but the loss is offset by the time saved docking the camera.
Adhoc networking is useful, the instructions provided were sufficient for windows and intel managed wifi cards however I was using another brand. The camera was out of the useful range of the router so I setup the adhoc network on a secondary nic to get around this. When powering up the camera it takes 20-30 seconds to connect to the adhoc network.
Of my two cameras one has the ability to disable and modify power management/sleep settings, the other doesn't. Power management sleep will interrupt transfers. If your camera has options to disable power management I highly recommend it if you take a lot of high resolution pictures. The camera may sleep before the uploads are finished and wakeup/reconnect will take 30 seconds to restart once the camera is powered back up. Interruptions to the network connection, power and low signal really slow the transfers. The card will retry automatically and generally reconnects in a timely manner. Occasionally the card did not reconnect fast enough for my preference.
The data write is a bit slower than my better SDHC cards, saving movies takes considerably longer to close the files, as does taking bursts of multiple images for longer than 3-4 seconds at a time. This is not a big problem for 99% of what I do.
Geotagging is interesting when using the SkyJack database, it was surprising to find my photos located closely to the actual shot on google maps. I'm waiting for GPS geotagging or some hybrid combination of GPS and skyjack.
I use picasa to manage my albums, it monitors the folders where eye-fi saves the files so they are uploaded almost immediately to picasa after they are taken. A lot of features for a reasonable price. Very happy with it.
Description of Eye-Fi Pro 4 GB SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-4PC
4GB Eye-Fi Pro wireless SDHC memory card. Get it all and streamline your workflow. Wirelessly upload JPEG, RAW and video directly to your laptop no router required. Select which items to upload in camera, and post them on any of over 25 online sites. Geotagging and hotspot access included.Digital Cameras and Photo Categories
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