Posted by Dennis Plank on December 22, 2012 at 4:05 PM
I just ran across these SD cards with built-in wifi. Has anyone tried them. Are they effective for downloading images to a laptop? If used in a Canon 1D, Mark IV, do you know if it would be possible to download images from the CF card as well?
Thanks,
Posted by David Bostedo on December 23, 2012 at 10:30 PM
Dennis - I've never used one, but I've read a little about Eye-Fi cards. (And BTW, Transcend has also started making WiFi cards.) A couple things I have read/heard :
-- The main complaint I've heard is transfers not finishing due to cameras going to sleep or people turning things off in the middle of transfer
-- Also, I've heard the range is pretty short since it's not a very high power transmitter, although I heard that a while ago
-- And they don't make CF cards at all. The only way to transfer as a CF card is to get an adapter the makes your SD card into a CF form factor card. Eye-Fi doesn't officially support that approach, and there may be issues, but some people have gotten it to work
-- According to the Eye-Fi website, the Mark IV is completely compatible with their cards, but only using SD
Posted by Dennis Plank on December 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Thanks, David. While it might save carrying a card reader, it looks a bit iffy right now. Probably not worth it for me.
Posted by Mark Stahlke on December 28, 2012 at 10:17 AM
While it might save carrying a card reader...
I'm not sure why carrying a card reader is a problem. I have a CF card reader that's barely larger than the card itself. For SD cards I have a reader that's about the size of a thumb drive, it has a USB connector on one end and a card slot on the other end.
A memory card with built in WIFI sounds like a nice convenience.
Discussion
3 repliesThanks,
-- The main complaint I've heard is transfers not finishing due to cameras going to sleep or people turning things off in the middle of transfer
-- Also, I've heard the range is pretty short since it's not a very high power transmitter, although I heard that a while ago
-- And they don't make CF cards at all. The only way to transfer as a CF card is to get an adapter the makes your SD card into a CF form factor card. Eye-Fi doesn't officially support that approach, and there may be issues, but some people have gotten it to work
-- According to the Eye-Fi website, the Mark IV is completely compatible with their cards, but only using SD
A memory card with built in WIFI sounds like a nice convenience.