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The Eye-Fi Wireless SD card

June 13, 2009 by Kris McDonald 6 Comments

As I have mentioned before I am a photographer. I very often do event photography in which I snap a photo and print it immediately to be given to guests at the function. I love my job, and I love being able to deliver a product in a flash to the guests.

My main drawback in this was that if I took a pic, or my assistant took a pic, the memory card would have to be removed from the camera and put in the laptop to copy the photos for printing. Depending on how busy I am this sometimes holds things up.

Enter the Eye-fi! I had heard about these when they first arrived on the market over a year ago. It seemed like exactly what I needed. I held off buying one hoping that they would soon give in to demand and add support for adhoc wireless networks. Well, some time passed, and more time passed, and I got tired of waiting.  I purchased one last week and I also bought a D-Link DWL-G730AP portable wireless router on the recommendation of someone in the Eye-Fi forums.  Getting it all setup and working was a little tricky, or so I thought. It turned out to be the fault of bent pens in my Ethernet jack at home because one of my kids stuck a crayon in it! Gotta love those kids. Once that was fixed, setup and use was a piece of cake!

I will get to really test it on a couple of jobs this weekend. So far, I love it. The only thing I have noticed is if I pump my Canon Rebel T1i up to full res of 15.1 mb, the upload of each pic is reaaaalllllyyyyy slow. But, I have no reason to use it at full res for what I will be using the Eye-Fi card for which is on-site photos usually printed at only 4 x 6 and no bigger than 8 x 10. With the resolution set at 8 mb, the upload of each pic to my laptop takes only a few seconds.

I think this card will make my job a lot easier and save me a lot of time and hassle.

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Kris McDonald is Chicago mom to 2 sets of twins, wife, photography nut, gadget addict, travel addict, and tech blogger who has worked in IT for over 20 years. She figured out a while ago that she was destined to be really busy (hence the 2 sets of twins), and she has found peace with that. Read More…

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  1. Susan

    January 7, 2010 at 4:51 am

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Susan

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  2. Susan

    September 16, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Susan

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  3. Erica Mueller

    August 31, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    I’m terribly jealous. I’ve been wanting one of these since they came out. I’m just too cheap to purchase one. haha

    Hmmn. Maybe I should hint for my next birthday or anniversary??? 🙂

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  4. Erica Mueller

    September 1, 2009 at 2:38 am

    I’m terribly jealous. I’ve been wanting one of these since they came out. I’m just too cheap to purchase one. haha

    Hmmn. Maybe I should hint for my next birthday or anniversary??? 🙂

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  5. Wardell

    June 15, 2009 at 4:59 am

    They do look kind of cool I hope to get one eventually but I’m trying to be frugal for now.

    Wardell’s last blog post..Simply the Best Email Client

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  6. Wardell

    June 14, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    They do look kind of cool I hope to get one eventually but I’m trying to be frugal for now.

    Wardell’s last blog post..Simply the Best Email Client

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