Comments on: Eye-Fi enables direct camera-to-iPad transfer

By: gary

gary — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:12:20 +0000

I shoot with a Nikon d300s, raws to the cf card and jpg to the eye-fi pro card. I have a jail-broken iphone running a wifi hotspot that my ipad is logged on to. It takes about a min for the jpg to go from the camera to the iPad. Works great, but you do need to jail-break the iphone. I’m sure you could also jail-break the iPad and just use it to create an wifi hotspot.

By: Wim Avontuur

Wim Avontuur — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:22:56 +0000

which leads me to question “why doesn’t anybody make a CF card with WiFi”. Can’t be much more difficult and there must be a market…

By: Glyn Dewis

Glyn Dewis — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:59:22 +0000

Definitely something I’d be interested in knowing more about; trouble is at the moment I’m in the same position as you Jon with the SD-CF adaptor issue.

Still…it’s all very encouraging.

Cheers,
Glyn

By: Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:15:18 +0000

I’m a multi-year fan of (and reviewer of) Eye-Fi products, and I’m still not sure how they are pulling this off. I suspect the iPad (or mobile) app enables itself as a WebDAV server, but I wonder if it can work in the background using, say, background location as a tool to remain active. Looking forward to trying it out.

By: Hopper Stone

Hopper Stone — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:21:30 +0000

A buddy of mine is a sports photographer in Finland and serious gearhead. Here’s a more in depth post about that sort of thing:
http://kkuukka.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/canon-wft-and-eye-fi-together-with-iphone-and-ipad/#more-1866

Not great if you’re shooting RAW, but terrific is you need to shoot RAW+JPG and use the RAWs either for a quick edit on the fly or for immediate servicing.