Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
Customer Review: Amazing Device With A Little Surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Eye-Fi for my sister. She's still in College and must take a picture of every exploit and put it on Facebook ASAP, so I thought this would be perfect for her. We set the card up on my PC at my house across town so she could get a feel for it. Everything worked perfect, easy setup. But what happened next was...unexpected?
She took the camera back to her place and a couple of days later she got a new tattoo and took some pictures. To my surprise they started to upload directly to my PC. Because not only is there an option to upload directly any site like Facebook or Flickr but you can upload directly to your PC. Because she never changed her setting in her Eye-Fi account, it uploaded to my PC.
I got to thinking how cool of a feature this would be. Someone could be on vacation, taking pics, upload them right to Grandma's PC. Within minutes, she can be viewing what her grandkids have been doing all day.
And to add to the awesomeness of the whole situation even more I remembered that my Sister had a Kodak Wireless Digital Picture Frame. It auto cycles the picture from any folder destination on yer PC! So it uploads to Grandma's PC, then automatically to the picture frame. Timeline looks like this:
Take Pic - Auto Uploads Pic once you get back home - Uploads to Eye Fi Manager site - Sends to Facebook (or wherever) - Sends to Desktop - Picture Frame cycles to new pics from Desktop.
Amazing. I'm sure there are business applications to all of this as well but I thought I would add a personal touch to it. Congrats Eye-Fi.
Customer Review: Best. Digi-cam. Invention. EVER.
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got this card, and it is the best invention to hit in-home digi-cam users EVER in my opinion. Or at least since the invention of image stabilization.
I bought a Nikon S7 camera based entirely on it's wifi abilities, and was devastated to find it didn't work even marginally with my iMac. As in complete failure.
But this wonderful invention 100% cured that problem! It took me about 15 minutes of messing with my wireless network to get the Eye Fi to jive with my router, but once set up it just WORKS. I make custom watch straps and send a picture of the completed strap to every customer when it's done, so I take between 5 and 20 pics a day depending on my volume. With my camera set at screen resolution (small image files) and 1 minute auto off, all I do is snap all my pics, walk to my computer and VOILA they're on my desktop. It really is like magic! I couldn't be happier about this. No more fiddling with the card every day, no more snapping pics and realizing they're all on my camera's internal memory because I left the card in my computer, no more searching for the card when I set it down somewhere... eye fi is worth every cent at TWICE the price, couldn't be happier!
Customer Review: Simply Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the Eye-Fi card as a gift (my family knows that I love tech toys) and it worked flawlessly since the first day I put it in my Nikon D50, and it keeps getting better. Photos are stored on the card until I return home and they are uploaded to my Smugmug account (another awesome service) and then to my desktop computer. I never have to take the card out of the camera. When the transfer is complete, I receive a text message on my phone.
I have the original card, and it has performed exactly as advertised - but it gets better! As features were added, like geotagging, eye-fi allowed me to update the card.
Ocassionally, I do event photography, where we print the photos on portable photo printers as they are taken and the eye-fi card (with a small portable router) has been a great benefit in these situations as well. I no longer have to run to the printer with my full card and print photos, they are transfered to the laptop wirelessly where my assistant tweaks them and sends them to the printer.
About 15,000 photos later, all I can say is that this is a great implementation of a brilliant idea and I am looking forward to buying additional cards in the future.
Customer Review: Amazing Product, but *CAUTION!
Summary: 5 Stars
Just received my EyeFi the other night. It is amazing, I use this item in a Canon A540 and the uploads are nearly instant at the highest settings (6MP). With my set up it is safe to assume the picture is already uploaded after the 2 second picture preview on the camera.
I originally purchased one of these on an Auction site. *Never purchase one of these USED on an auction site. The item I received was still locked with the previous users email address and no way to recover. the EyeFi customer service is Amazing! any question they will answer and the turn around is sometimes less than a day. Without the MAC address, which is only accessible after logging into the card it was totally locked... now I'm still waiting for the auctioneer to return my money. Amazon's service was amazing. I received the item fast and it was Brand New and I was up and running in only a few moments.
It doesn't take much to set up the card. If you set up your own home wireless router it is even easier. I limit MAC addresses allowed into my router - all I had to to was authorize the Eye-Fi's MAC and everything fired up instantly... I didn't even have to leave my laptop :)
Customer Review: How did I ever live without this?
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know what's up with the reviewers who said this card was too difficult to set up. It couldn't have been easier. I set it up on my Macbook, and on my PC, created an account, uploaded a picture to Flickr, and did it all within 1/2 hour. I've never gone through a setup process this easy.
I always procrastinated uploading pictures to my hard drive, and then getting them to Flickr because it was a drag going through all the steps involved. I'd wait until I had a bunch and then sit down and do it. The Eye-Fi card makes this entire process so effortless that I'm uploading single pictures immediately now.
Several other reviewers mentioned the need to keep the camera on during the upload which makes sense, but one forgets about the Auto Off, and it's not mentioned in the setup instructions. So the first thing I did was to set my Auto Off timeout from 20 seconds to 5 minutes. This gives me plenty of time to upload pictures. I'm a fanatic about turning off my camera anyway, so not having a low timeout doesn't bother me.
In my opinion, the Eye-Fi card is worth every penny, and I love it!