Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
by Eye-Fi
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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: Not Ready For Prime Tine
Summary: 1 Stars
I tried this with a new iMac Dual Core and a Leica DLux 3. First of all for you Mac users this card does not support Safari at all. They insist that you download Firefox which is defiantly not my favorite browser. As far as it goes after you download Firefox set up is a snap. Now let's talk about speed. If your shooting large format 10 MP or 8 MP you better have a some time on your hands because at those sizes this whole process is really slow. At 5 MP you speed it up somewhat and at 2 MP you're golden. I do have a feeling that this is a very slow card as compared to others I use on a regular basis which doesn't make me very happy. Well that concludes my very first Amazon review so now I'm on my way to repack it and send it back. The problem here is the concept is good but I can plug my Leica into a USB 2.0 port and DL the pictures in seconds.Customer Review: Uploading pictures has never been easier
Summary: 5 Stars
I read about this little wonder and had to try it out, no matter what the result. I was not disappointed. While they spent quite a bit on some modern packaging, the setup was simple. Push the card, that comes in a USB device, into your computer and tell it what wireless access points to use.
From there you can decide if it should also store them on your computer while uploading to picture sites like Flickr and Picasa.
While it can eat battery life a bit faster, it worked seamlessly for me at a recent conference. I put the SSID of the wireless from the conference in the card and as I walked around taking pictures, they uploaded to my account. People were baffled how I was getting them online so fast without even touching my laptop.
I grinned and walked away knowing this device, well, it just worked.
Customer Review: Works as Promised
Summary: 4 Stars
Have had card since introduction. Use with a Pentax DSLR and does not seem to affect the battery life much if at all. As an aside the batteries seem to last for ever in my camera. Yes to delete pictures off the card requires a separate step. I format the card to remove the pictures and start over which is the same as with a standard SD card. My uploads are fast but my image size is in the 1-3 mb range. If I shoot RAW I have to download it into a special app anyway. You can now have E-Mail notifications sent to you about what was downloaded from your camera. And, according to the company, a new version of the card is coming out which will support Wi-Fi hotspots and geotagging. It will use the Wayport network which, being a AT&T DSL customer, is free for me. Might have to get it if the cost is not too high.Customer Review: Excellent: Does exactly what it promises!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is exactly what I've been hoping for! I run a home-based business selling cashmere online. My photo studio is in the basement and my office is on the 2nd floor of our house.. With the Eye-Fi, I shoot my photos... walk upstairs to my office..and voila! -my photos are wrapping up their transfers.
I'm shooting w/ a Fuji Finepix S8000fd and typically am using 3GB resolution (due to their eventual destination online), and we've rigged our home network router with homemade parabolic antennas... so the average user may not experience the same fast upload from two floors away.. Still, initial installation took less than 5 minutes, and w/ instant downloads, I'm not wasting my time fiddling w/ cables anymore -what's not to like? Life is Good! Thanks Eye-Fi! :-)
~Kate
Customer Review: Amazing idea, needs a lot of work
Summary: 2 Stars
I really like this product but there are a few things you should keep in mind before purchasing:
1. In order to use a wireless network with the card you have to have a computer with the manager software installed and connected to that network. For example, you can't pre-configure the SID of an open access point at your local coffee shop then just take your camera there to upload. And, you can't have it search for any open access point; you have to pre-configure it using your computer with the card connected.
2. You can only upload to one photo service at a time. To change them you need a computer with the manager software running.
3. It takes a LOT of battery life! It drains the batteries on my Nikon D70 SLR in hours verses the weeks it would normally last.