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Product Information
| Brand | Eye-Fi |
| Item Weight | 82 g |
| Product Dimensions | 19 x 13.7 x 1.6 cm |
| Item model number | EYE-FI-8PC-EU |
| RAM Size | 8192 MB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11B, 802.11G, 802.11n |
| ASIN | B003E47XJ0 |
| Best Sellers Rank |
297 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
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| Shipping Weight | 68 g |
| Date First Available | 24 Mar 2010 |
Product Description
Product Description
Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Memory Card
Overview
What if your photos and videos could instantly fly from your camera to your smartphone, tablet or computer? Just think: no more hunting around for the camera cable, or having to take the memory card out of your camera and insert it into your computer. How? With the Eye-Fi Wireless SDHC Memory Card - it does all the work for you.
Eye-Fi have built a wireless transmitter right into a Class 6 SDHC memory card, giving you the power to wirelessly transfer photos and videos with 802.11n speeds to the device of your choice, and to your favourite online sharing sites like Facebook, Picasa, and YouTube. The Eye-Fi card is easy to install and works with most SDHC compatible cameras from your favourite brands, including Canon, Casio, HP, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sony and more.
Pro-zone
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 comes packed with plenty of great features to help streamline your workflow. With Direct Mode, you can instantly upload photos & videos directly to your laptop, no Wi-Fi router necessary – perfect for off-the-beaten path photo shoots. No kidding - that's instant uploads from anywhere. Speaking of anywhere, the Pro X2 will also automatically geotag your photos & videos by location using Wi-Fi positioning. All of this comes in one powerful little SDHC card.
This 8GB card looks and stores photos and videos just like a traditional SDHC memory card, but will also grant you endless memory. Using a feature called Endless Memory Mode, this innovative card automatically frees up space after media is safely delivered. You'll never miss a shot again.
Features and Benefits
Wireless RAW File Uploads - Edit Like a Pro
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 not only wirelessly uploads JPEGs, but also RAW files. Whether you're a pro or not, now you can edit like one. You can even install watch folders to set Adobe's Lightroom or PhotoShop to automatically pull your RAW files and apply presets automatically. It's never been this easy to get your photos where you want them.
Direct Mode: Instant Uploads Anywhere
Wouldn't it be nice to have your photos on your smartphone, tablet or laptop right away? With Eye-Fi's Direct Mode you can. The Eye-Fi card will instantly send your full resolutions photos & videos directly to your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Using the free Eye-Fi mobile app, enjoy instant uploads from anywhere your camera takes you. Even better, if you are not near one of your designated wireless networks, the Eye-Fi card will create its own Wi-Fi network on the fly. No kidding. Shoot and share while you're there.
Automatically Backup and Organise over Wi-Fi. No Cables. No hassles
Thanks to built-in Wi-Fi, the Eye-Fi card will quickly and effortlessly transfer your photos and video wirelessly to your smartphone, tablet, or computer and to your favourite online sharing sites. Simply turn on your camera and your photos and videos are automatically transferred to the device of your choice and to your favourite online sharing and printing sites such as Picasa, Facebook, Flickr or YouTube – there are over 25 sites to choose from. And, by setting up a text message, email account or Twitter alert, you'll automatically receive a message when your images have uploaded. To help you stay organized, the Eye-Fi card gives you the option of uploading photos and videos to specific, date-based folders on your computer (PC or MAC) or even directly into iPhoto (for MAC only). You'll save time and eliminate frustration by easily finding that great shot.
Automatic Geotagging - Search. View. Share
Automatically tag photos by location with Wi-Fi positioning. You take the photos, and let Eye-Fi do the rest. Your photos will be automatically tagged to show where they were taken. Then you can view photos on a map or search them by location - all without having to spend the time entering that info for every single photo. Just turn your camera on, and photos fly wirelessly, embedded with their geotags.
Hotspot access
With Hotspot Access, you'll be able to upload from thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots just as easily as at home. Travelling? No need to carry your laptop around everywhere. Your photos will be sent to your sharing website and to your computer, even if it's thousands of miles away, while you're sipping on your morning coffee.
Hotspot Access makes uploading on-the-go a breeze. Get unlimited uploads from your camera – no need for a computer. Automatically upload photos & videos on-the-go at hundreds of thousands of locations*, including restaurants, cafes, major hotels, airports, and more. Hotspot Access is included for a year and valid all around the world, making sharing your adventures easier than ever.
* Available through open hotspots, or with hotspot aggregator existing agreement.
Endless Memory - Never Miss a Shot Again
Enjoy peace of mind knowing you will never run out of space. Using Endless Memory Mode, the Eye-Fi card automatically frees up space after your pictures & videos are safely uploaded. Go ahead, shoot away.
Eye-Fi View - View Photos. Wherever. Whenever.
Do your photos and videos always seem to be at home when you want to show them or share them? With Eye-Fi View, access your memories from any web connected device. You will be able to view, share or download full resolution photos from the last 7 days. Want unlimited storage and access to your photos and videos? Upgrade to Eye-Fi Premium for only £24.99/year.
Simple Set-up
Set-up is simple and takes only a matter of minutes. Easy to follow 3-step instructions are provided with your Eye-Fi card.
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Customer Reviews
It works well. Firstly you plug it into your PC with the thoughtfully supplied card reader (though you can of course use any reader), and the software is installed directly off the card. Once you've installed the software you set up which wireless networks you'd like to use, where you'd like your pictures to go as they're uploaded, and whether or not you'd like 'endless memory'.
Wireless networking can either be through a router, or you can set up an 'ad hoc' network in which the eyefi card connects directly (wirelessly) to your PC. This is great if you're out and about as it means you don't actually need an internet connection if you have a laptop handy, or if your connection to the internet is wired you use the laptop as a sort-of modem.
Where you'd like your pictures to go gives you a few options. You can choose where your pictures are stored on your computer, or where on the internet you'd like them to be uploaded to. Flickr and Facebook are both supported, as you'd expect, and you can set up other locations easily.
Endless Memory simply means that as you shoot, your shots are uploaded, and then deleted from the card. Eyefi assure you that nothing will be deleted without a confirmed upload, but still I'm not sure how much I'd trust this! But then, with 8gig of storage, it's pretty close to 'endless' as it is and you'd have to go some to fill it up.
Geotagging is supported, although as this works off interogating nearby wifi hotspots its not a lot of use unless you live in a reasonably large population centre. Here in the sticks where I live, it doesn't work.
So, what's it actually for though? Well, this is where you should really consider whether or not you actually need one of these things. It's great for things like stop-motion films, or time-lapse photography as you can actually see what you're getting as you're working - you don't need to wait until the shoot is finished before you find out you've messed up.
I've been using it with a GoPro Surf HERO - Digital camera - compact - 5.0 Mpix - supported memory: MMC, SD, SDHC, in a water housing, and it's great for that as you don't need to open the wet case to get your shots out. For this alone it's worth buying for me, but considering you get 8gig of storage on this card - how soon are you going to fill that up that you need to wirelessly download it?
So why four stars rather than five? Well, as good as this is it's rather poorly supported by the manufacturer. On opening the packaging I was pleased to see a fairly thick printed manual in a handy camera-bag sized booklet. Brilliant! Less so when I leafed through to discover that its just a load of legalese about it not being eyefi's fault if anything explodes. (or words to that effect).
There is no manual, not even on PDF on the card - all the help is on the eyefi website, which is poorly laid out and difficult to navigate - somethings are on a FAQ page, other items require a PDF download, other hints are scattered about the site. It's not good, and it makes the card unnecessarily difficult to get a 'feel' for and slows you down from getting the best from it.
The software is clunky and a little unintuitive, with irritating error messages like 'take a breath' if you make a mistake. The options screen has no 'save changes' button, but you'll be told off for not saving your changes if you move off a screen. It all works, most of the time, and it's not difficult to use, but its not as smooth and simple as it could be. It also doesn't support RAW files, or at least Pentax ones (PEF) and doesn't display them. It's also very slow, and tends to lock up. When I'm trusting the software on the card to safely upload my shots without losing them this doesn't instill confidence.
Eyefi's own online storage cost extra on top of the price of the card, and although you do get basic functionality, the original RAW files are not stored. It's also difficult to find your own site, as your shots upload to a site address which is full of odd symbols and nothing memorable. Hmm, not easy to tell Auntie Hilda where to find that. Also the link to find the site from the eyefi software are so hidden, you have to go through the eyefi website help each time to get there. Awful to find, awful to use, and to be honest not worth the five or six quid a month they charge.
So, technologically amazing, and works well but with drawbacks. Consider, for the price of this card you could buy 4 or 5 8gig memory cards, so do you really need this?
Yesterday (20/4/11) the free 'Eye-Fi' app on my iPhone was updated to include a mode whereby, without the previous need for a mobile wi-fi router, shots taken can be sent directly to an iPhone (or indeed iPad) instead; this means that on a shoot I can show the client the images as they are taken with ease or simply be able to send images to a backup device for later downloading. Where the shots are directed is dictated either by the app or by desktop so I can swop back to desktop if appropriate, easily. ***I have had a frustrating day and lowered my rating to 4stars - reason 'flakey software' - having failed to download a single shot all day, I have discovered you need to go to iPhone settings/networks select the network created by the card and apply the password from the desktop app to 'Join' - I hope this solves it. In short, if you are not techy, get help.
Transfer rates are reasonable and as others have mentioned, the 'geotagging' is good but not great. This uses a database of wi-fi networks to determine which one you are in range of, so it's not GPS or assisted GPS rather a spin-off use of the fact that someone has constructed a database of a few million wi-fi networks and their numerical addresses, the card captures the 'number' and this is then translated to a location on download - in the country, forget it, in most towns it's pretty good.
Finally, the software is functional and requires a degree of thought in use, for example, grasping the consequences of your choices - 'do I want every photo to be sent to Flickr?' etc.
Overall I rate this as good value for the money, to others it may be a solution to a problem they don't have!
There are notable incompatibilities with the Canon EOS 450d and 550d which aren't listed on their website, and if you use or have ever used custom firmware on the 550d (e.g. Magic Lantern) then this card will crash your camera.
I was also informed that despite the 'Pro' moniker this card "is not designed for professional use" or for large DSLR files in general (even when advertising RAW support) and I should send it back. To get even this response required logging a lengthy ticket, which was closed with only the comment to call them on an 0845 number as they would not help via email. Not a single issue was addressed or resolved even with the 40 minute call or in the week or so since it. Highly unprofessional.
i dont want to use the required amount of words and if you keep making me reply i shall STOP giving feed back
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