I've been using an older model with the Leica M9 and getting pretty good results. I'm hoping that the 802.11n and ad hoc will work as well (or hopefully even better) on the new one. Amazon pre-order placed.
I've been using an older model with the Leica M9 and getting pretty good results. I'm hoping that the 802.11n and ad hoc will work as well (or hopefully even better) on the new one. Amazon pre-order placed.
WOW, doesn't the M9 have that massive metal plate at he bottom of the camera? We heard that the range isn't that great and that you need to be very close to the router... N should help. It's also a true class 6 card so RAW writes will be much faster, ad-hoc will work well, and overall -- it'll be a great experience.
I'm not sure if ad-hoc will give you more range than a solid N router. It really depends. I know that my MacBookPro's airport is phenomenal, but other laptops my not have a better built-in Wi-Fi card, than a router.
WOW, doesn't the M9 have that massive metal plate at he bottom of the camera? We heard that the range isn't that great and that you need to be very close to the router... N should help. It's also a true class 6 card so RAW writes will be much faster, ad-hoc will work well, and overall -- it'll be a great experience.
I'm not sure if ad-hoc will give you more range than a solid N router. It really depends. I know that my MacBookPro's airport is phenomenal, but other laptops my not have a better built-in Wi-Fi card, than a router.
But play. You'll have fun :-)
The website lists the M8 as not being compatible. I haven't tried an M8, but I regularly use the M9 with the original 2gb card with no problems. My application is in a single large room - often 30-40 feet from the router.
It would be much easier just to bring my notebook instead of the router, cords, etc.
It would also be easy to fashion a strong plastic piece to replace the bottom plate on the m9. If range is an issue I might do that.
Sony
The newly announced Sony pocket cam with GPS and HD video arrived and has been used successfully at my house to wirelessly upload pic's to my Smugmug account with my Eye-Fi card for photos. If I could afford that new video card, I would report more. HX5V
Dave
I know you said to not hassle you, but I would definitely get one if it was a cf card... unfortunately my D300 doesn't support SD cards... So I guess I'm putting in my vote to hurry along the CF card research and development!
I know I'm not supposed to hassle anyone, but NO CF really rules out a lot of the real pros.
Chris
www.kissablephotos.com
5D Mark II
All Canon L glass from 16mm on up
Radio Poppers
580 EX II's
27" iMac i5
A cf eye fi card would sure make syncing to my new iPad very nice... Nudge nudge...
Seriously, there are hundreds of thousands of pro and semi pro photographers that have cameras... That don't accept sd cards. You're company is totally missing a majority of the market! I've been wanting one of these for a very long time now.
You know what you should do? Develop an sd to cf converter that is guaranteed to work with your products. I know there are some off brand ones on the market, but why not take advantage and bring in the people that are on the fence about purchasing one. You'll not only get the pro photogs off your back, but you'll gain them as clients. Aka more money.
Seriously, there are hundreds of thousands of pro and semi pro photographers that have cameras... That don't accept sd cards. You're company is totally missing a majority of the market! I've been wanting one of these for a very long time now.
For the record, I've been a huge fan of CF since day 1 of Eye-Fi. I'm a pro, so I totally get it. But I'm sorry to say -- it's far from a majority. It's a 5% marketshare, and shrinking, vs. 90%+ and growing (SD/SDHC). This is based on retail sales and actual photos shared through popular sharing sites, where we've scraped the data, and dug through it.
That 5% is passionate and vocal though. I fully realize that. But look at where CF is going. Canon's latest 60D is SD. Nikon's D300s is CF+SD. Nikon's latest D7000 is dual-SD. The newest $10K Pentax medium format camera is dual-slot SD. etc... By Canon going to SD on the 60D, you can see that they're even going to SD in their mid-range cameras. All of Canon's pro bodies are dual-slot CF + SD.
I wish we could address the 5DmkII market. We can't, right now.
You know what you should do? Develop an sd to cf converter that is guaranteed to work with your products. I know there are some off brand ones on the market, but why not take advantage and bring in the people that are on the fence about purchasing one. You'll not only get the pro photogs off your back, but you'll gain them as clients. Aka more money.
Tried it. It's more complicated than you think. I haven't given up yet. There may be solutions out there, one day. Or, there may not. Time will tell. The window for CF is shrinking, so hopefully something will exist, at one point. If not, next time that you guys purchase a body to replace your 5DmkII, it'll probably have an SD slot in it :-)
I understand your points about CF, and agree that it'll probably start disappearing relatively soon. So I can see why you guys wouldn't want to spend the money to develop it.
But, even though CF may be only 5% of the market and shrinking, I bet your product would be more popular with the CF crowd in general. I bet there are more people using wireless flashes with CF cameras than SD cameras. Not that wireless flash and wifi memory cards are similar, but I'd bet that the same types of pros/semi-pros that use wireless flash triggers would use your product too.
I'm just guessing that you guys could have done very very well with a CF version, even if the CF market is much smaller.
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:-) And all for the same cost a the current Pro :-)
Thanks for the shout-out...
MM
Zenfolio
www.finesart.com
I'll give you our "official" answer -- soon :-)
Amazon and Eye-Fi are taking pre-orders. We wouldn't be taking pre-orders, if it wasn't soon.
Thanks --
Ziv.
MM
Zenfolio
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-10047-10443
Rob says that we'll have our cards out by the end of Jan. So if he shared this info, I'll back him up :-)
MM
Zenfolio
I've been using an older model with the Leica M9 and getting pretty good results. I'm hoping that the 802.11n and ad hoc will work as well (or hopefully even better) on the new one. Amazon pre-order placed.
www.finesart.com
WOW, doesn't the M9 have that massive metal plate at he bottom of the camera? We heard that the range isn't that great and that you need to be very close to the router... N should help. It's also a true class 6 card so RAW writes will be much faster, ad-hoc will work well, and overall -- it'll be a great experience.
I'm not sure if ad-hoc will give you more range than a solid N router. It really depends. I know that my MacBookPro's airport is phenomenal, but other laptops my not have a better built-in Wi-Fi card, than a router.
But play. You'll have fun :-)
MM
Zenfolio
The website lists the M8 as not being compatible. I haven't tried an M8, but I regularly use the M9 with the original 2gb card with no problems. My application is in a single large room - often 30-40 feet from the router.
It would be much easier just to bring my notebook instead of the router, cords, etc.
It would also be easy to fashion a strong plastic piece to replace the bottom plate on the m9. If range is an issue I might do that.
www.finesart.com
The only reason that we list the M8 and M9 as unsupported is range. But we'll do more checking. We don't have the M8 nor the M9 in the office :-)
MM
Zenfolio
Hello,
Router is an Apple Time Capsule 802.11n, pretty much on default settings.
Sounds like you need a Leica field tester...
www.finesart.com
Thx :-)
I agree that we need more help testing the M8/M9. We're taking donations :-)
I'll keep you posted :-)
MM
Zenfolio
I see that Sony is finally making some SD compatible cameras. Any word on them for eye-fi?
Dave
Alpha 99 & VG, 900x2 & VG; 50mm1.4, CZ135 1.8; CZ16-35 2.8, CZ24-70 2.8, G70-200 2.8, G70-400, Sony TC 1.4, F20, F58, F60.
Sorry, but we can't pre-announce anything... Stay tuned, via our mailing list:
http://www.eye.fi/about/mailing-list
It's cool to see how everyone is moving to SD/SDHC.
Thx --
Ziv.
MM
Zenfolio
Soon, maybe?
www.finesart.com
Yup. Promise. We're building enough for all the channels. Watch Amazon and others change from "pre-order" to "in-stock" in a few days.
MM
Zenfolio
The newly announced Sony pocket cam with GPS and HD video arrived and has been used successfully at my house to wirelessly upload pic's to my Smugmug account with my Eye-Fi card for photos. If I could afford that new video card, I would report more.
Dave
Alpha 99 & VG, 900x2 & VG; 50mm1.4, CZ135 1.8; CZ16-35 2.8, CZ24-70 2.8, G70-200 2.8, G70-400, Sony TC 1.4, F20, F58, F60.
MM
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MM
Zenfolio
Canon cameras
Dave
Alpha 99 & VG, 900x2 & VG; 50mm1.4, CZ135 1.8; CZ16-35 2.8, CZ24-70 2.8, G70-200 2.8, G70-400, Sony TC 1.4, F20, F58, F60.
Works fine on the M9 using a router.
For some reason I haven't been able to get it to work ad hoc yet, but the Eye-Fi support staff are looking into it.
Fun card - lots of control in the Eye-Fi center.
www.finesart.com
I know I'm not supposed to hassle anyone, but NO CF really rules out a lot of the real pros.
www.kissablephotos.com
5D Mark II
All Canon L glass from 16mm on up
Radio Poppers
580 EX II's
27" iMac i5
So I asked about CF back at the begining of the thread......
What is the word on CF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Come on now.................
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I recently had some trouble setting up the Eye-Fi 8gb Wi-fi Pro X2 card on a new camera.
Have to hand it to the Eye-fi folks - their customer support in getting the issue resolved was as good as one could hope for.
We did trouble shooting at each step of the problem, they were frank about the challenges of the process and in the end all is working well.
Thanks Larry, Nicki and the other folks who have made this such a good product. Can't wait to see what new tricks are coming down the pipe.
www.finesart.com
AWESOME. THANK YOU. I'll let Larry and team know. Feel free to contact us any time.
MM
Zenfolio
Seriously, there are hundreds of thousands of pro and semi pro photographers that have cameras... That don't accept sd cards. You're company is totally missing a majority of the market! I've been wanting one of these for a very long time now.
You know what you should do? Develop an sd to cf converter that is guaranteed to work with your products. I know there are some off brand ones on the market, but why not take advantage and bring in the people that are on the fence about purchasing one. You'll not only get the pro photogs off your back, but you'll gain them as clients. Aka more money.
check out Rob Galbraith's latest write-up. It's VERY detailed -- http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-10055-10851
For the record, I've been a huge fan of CF since day 1 of Eye-Fi. I'm a pro, so I totally get it. But I'm sorry to say -- it's far from a majority. It's a 5% marketshare, and shrinking, vs. 90%+ and growing (SD/SDHC). This is based on retail sales and actual photos shared through popular sharing sites, where we've scraped the data, and dug through it.
That 5% is passionate and vocal though. I fully realize that. But look at where CF is going. Canon's latest 60D is SD. Nikon's D300s is CF+SD. Nikon's latest D7000 is dual-SD. The newest $10K Pentax medium format camera is dual-slot SD. etc... By Canon going to SD on the 60D, you can see that they're even going to SD in their mid-range cameras. All of Canon's pro bodies are dual-slot CF + SD.
I wish we could address the 5DmkII market. We can't, right now.
Tried it. It's more complicated than you think. I haven't given up yet. There may be solutions out there, one day. Or, there may not. Time will tell. The window for CF is shrinking, so hopefully something will exist, at one point. If not, next time that you guys purchase a body to replace your 5DmkII, it'll probably have an SD slot in it :-)
MM
Zenfolio
But, even though CF may be only 5% of the market and shrinking, I bet your product would be more popular with the CF crowd in general. I bet there are more people using wireless flashes with CF cameras than SD cameras. Not that wireless flash and wifi memory cards are similar, but I'd bet that the same types of pros/semi-pros that use wireless flash triggers would use your product too.
I'm just guessing that you guys could have done very very well with a CF version, even if the CF market is much smaller.
Dave