eye-fi anyone?

[rtphokie]

I heard about a new technology that gives any digital camera which uses SD cards WiFi capability. Take a photo and it's uploaded to your PC. Included software also uploads any photos that come in to Flickr, Picasa, etc (which would be a disaster for me since I tend to take hundreds of photos, even at home).

http://www.eye.fi/

I'm guessing Disney would jump all over technology like this for the Photopass photographers. It would get photos to the Photopass printers that much faster.

 

[GrillMouster]

I read somewhere that Disney's Photopass photographers already use wireless technology to transmit photos.

 

[NostalgicDad]

I have a Nikon Coolpix P2 with integrated Wi-Fi that works great. I guess if you don't have that ability and really want to transfer your photos without cables or card readers, it sounds like an interesting option. I see that it only will upload jpeg's so RAW format uploading would not be possible. The most concern I suppose I have though is that it adds another point of failure to a memory card holding your precious photos. I like to limit that possibility as much as possible since SD cards are definitely succeptible to failure. It's amazing though how much technology can be squeezed into something that small.

 

[tjl1388]

RAW files take forever through a cord...it would be torture through Wi-Fi.

 

[GrillMouster]

...The most concern I suppose I have though is that it adds another point of failure to a memory card holding your precious photos...

My sentiments exactly! Plus, as you point out, it won't transfer RAW files, so that goes out the window for me. If I really wanted this, I'd opt for the Nikon accessory for DSLRs.

 

[extreme8]

Here's a review it you're interested;

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/eye-fi/

 

[Code]

I need to get one of these for my parents so I can end the "will you unload our pictures for us?" that happens every weekend

If it supported connecting to random hotspots, rather than only the one that you configure when setting it up, it would be that much cooler.