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Old 10-30-2012, 01:23 PM   #1
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Eye-Fi/Wireless Tethering

Anyone use Eye-Fi cards here?

I'm planning on using my iPad mini as a bit of a review device on the road. With the 5D Mark III, you can set it to save RAW to one memory card and small JPEG to the other so I'll have RAW recorded to a CF card and an Eye-Fi sending 5.5mp JPEGs to my iPad. Nothing particularly important. I just thought it would be fun and an easy way to use my DSLR on Instagram.

My question is...is there any speed difference between the card models?

The Pro is a 16GB Class 10 SD card while the Connect and Mobile are only Class 6. Pro also allows for RAW file transfer, which I don't need, while the cheap 4GB card is only $35.

If you have any Eye-Fi experience, I'd love to hear it.
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Old 11-02-2012, 09:03 AM   #2
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Anyone use Eye-Fi cards here?

I'm planning on using my iPad mini as a bit of a review device on the road. With the 5D Mark III, you can set it to save RAW to one memory card and small JPEG to the other so I'll have RAW recorded to a CF card and an Eye-Fi sending 5.5mp JPEGs to my iPad. Nothing particularly important. I just thought it would be fun and an easy way to use my DSLR on Instagram.

My question is...is there any speed difference between the card models?

The Pro is a 16GB Class 10 SD card while the Connect and Mobile are only Class 6. Pro also allows for RAW file transfer, which I don't need, while the cheap 4GB card is only $35.

If you have any Eye-Fi experience, I'd love to hear it.
It's a great concept but the actual use of it is very spotty. I bought the pro one cause i shot raw and jpeg but only sent the jpegs to my ipad for preview. The issues i had was connectivity issues with my D7000 and my ipad while tethering from my iphone's data. Having said that, the connection for the eyefi card was garbage even at home on wifi.

I bought mine from futureshop and returned it after being frustrated by the issues i had. I would suggest you do the same and try it out first.

Great concept, poor execution.
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Old 11-02-2012, 07:58 PM   #3
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I have the new class 10 version for my 5d3 (had to jump through the hoops to get this shipped to HK from Amazon).

I have my 1000x CF set at large sized JPG and the eye-fi set at 5mp JPG and you will not run out of buffer even at 6fps (which you would if you save RAW onto the CF instead). The eye-fi also pushed the small jpgs quite quickly to my Note 2 (I also have it so that if the eyefi card is 90% full, it will automatically delete the oldest photos on the eyefi as they have already been transfered to my phone).

I have heard mixed reviews about whether the class 10 version has a faster wireless transfer speed than the class 6 version; but I figure I don't want to take a chance to have a class 6 card bog down the buffer.
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Old 11-03-2012, 07:40 PM   #4
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Don't take this the wrong way but you guys must be doing it wrong.

Bought a $40 Connect 4GB card today. Set it up on my laptop and connected my iPad to it, up and running within 5 minutes. Pictures taken on my 5D automatically appear in my photo album, straight up. I have the Eye-Fi iPad app running but not open.

This is awesome. 8" screen to review pics on during breaks and beam to Instagram! Hopefully it continues to work.
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That sounds pretty awesome actually
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Old 11-03-2012, 07:49 PM   #6
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I went with the cheapest card rather than the Pro one because I don't need the RAW transfer ability or the 16GB storage space so I figured the $40 card would do the same job. I did notice the buffer slowing but you'll probably only notice if you shoot at 10FPS. I shot 7 frames, it said BUSY for about 3-4 seconds then I was able to shoot off another 6-7 shots.

Uploads are fast. Weirdly, the first picture takes the longest. It takes about 5-10 seconds for the first picture to show up but then the rest are almost instantaneous. Keep in mind that I'm sending 5.5MP JPEGs, not 23MP RAWs to my iPad so each pic is only 500k instead of 30MB. If you're crazy enough to transfer RAW files over Wi-Fi, then you'll need the Pro X2 class 10 card, probably but if you just want it for fucking around, reviewing pictures and just having a little fun with your tablet, then the $40 cheapo card works just fine as I suspected.
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Just looked on YouTube for a vid of this in practice:


I didn't do any of that setup shit. It was much simpler than that. I don't remember the card asking me for a password but you do have to connect the iPad's Wi-Fi to the camera...but you can see how quick this works.
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This is making me want an iPad mini even more

That's some pretty cool tech

Btw does it work if the iPad isn't awake? ie: it's in my bag or something lol

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