Eye Fi sd cards

[Smokeyr67]

Hi guys,

I'd like to transfer my pics straight to my laptop for immediate review, is this possible with an Eye Fi card?

Thanks

Shane

 

[Robin Usagani]

wifi card uses 10X more energy. It will deplete your battery very fast. I have one but I use the EZshare card. I only turn it on when I want to transfer something to my phone for facebook post. To do what you are suggesting, I only would suggest hooking your camera to a power source.

 

[Robin Usagani]

You can also use usb cable to tether it to your laptop for immediate review.

 

[robbins.photo]

Hi guys,

I'd like to transfer my pics straight to my laptop for immediate revies, is this possible with an Eye Fi card?

Thanks

Shane

I don't use the Eyefi myself - as Robin mentioned they are battery hogs, that and the SD cards I use are the Sandisk Extreme Pro with the 95 mps write speed, the Eyefi's I think only do something like 30-45 mps write which slows me down too much when I'm shooting in burst mode.

When I do take my laptop for review or editing purposes I just pack the USB cable with it, I can connect and download to the laptop as fast if not faster that way than I could wireless anyway.

 

[Light Guru]

I love how there are several responses and NONE of them have actually attempted to answer the question. The responses just ignored it and talked about other aspects of the eye-fi card or other ways to show photos on a computer when you take them.

To answer the question asked. Some of the cards that Eye-Fi makes can and some cannot. Eye-Fi's website specifies what cards will and what cards won't.

 

[ronlane]

You can also use usb cable to tether it to your laptop for immediate review.

This. It's not really practical when shooting outdoors, but it can be done.

 

[JClishe]

I love how there are several responses and NONE of them have actually attempted to answer the question. The responses just ignored it and talked about other aspects of the eye-fi card or other ways to show photos on a computer when you take them.

I noticed the same thing.

 

[JClishe]

Shane-

Yes it is absolutely possible to transfer images straight to your laptop from an Eye-Fi card as you shoot. I do this frequently and there 2 main issues to be aware of:

1. If you're shooting RAW the transfers will take awhile. My 5D3 supports 2 cards so I write RAW to the CF card and S1 JPG's to the Eye-Fi which works great at getting the images on my laptop quickly for review while still retaining the full size RAW. If your camera has multiple card slots I'd recommend that approach.

2. As others have noted, this will consume more battery on your camera, which may or may not be an issue...that's an issue only you can decide on a shoot by shoot basis depending on how long you intend to be shooting.

Hope this helps.

 

[Kevin88]

Hi guys,

I'd like to transfer my pics straight to my laptop for immediate review, is this possible with an Eye Fi card?

Thanks

Shane

I don't think an eye-fi goes well with a laptop as it's mainly putting in a camera. I've a RavPower filehub and I think you should
give it a go. It transfer my pics from a phone or a tab to USB/SD card straightly. And you can simply put the USB storage in your laptop
and get it there. It's much easier and most importantly, an eye-fi 16G costs you over $70 while this multifunctional filehub is simply less than
$50 in a case that you have flexible storage choices. Get it from amazon if you'd like.

 

[Smokeyr67]

Thanks for all the replies folks

The shoots I have coming up are 3 models indoors, so for that I'll just use the laptop and cables, and an outdoor casual shoot with 1 model so I'll just use the camera's screen for that. I might just put the $130 for the card into my body upgrade account, and be patient

Thanks again

Shane

 

[Robin Usagani]

I just assume it is a given that is possible (assuming he buys the right one).

 

[Smokeyr67]

And have a portable Wi Fi hub

 

[JClishe]

And have a portable Wi Fi hub

Why?

 

[Smokeyr67]

My laptop and tablet are rx only, and the sd card is tx only, so an interface is needed?

 

[JClishe]

My laptop and tablet are rx only, and the sd card is tx only, so an interface is needed?

Nope. You can configure the Eye-Fi to connect to an existing WiFi Hotspot (if one is available) or do a peer to peer connection between the Eye-Fi and your laptop (for example if you're on location somewhere).