who uses a Wireless Transmitter to transmit photos directly to PC?

[koffiejunkie]

I have not really felt the need for faster uploading. I usually plug in my card reader, shove in the card, start the import, and then go off to make coffee. By the time I'm back, the images are in. Aperture generating its previews takes far longer anyway.

I do, however, miss my FireWire card reader, for the simple reason that there is no overhead, absolutely impact on my system while I'm pulling 8GB off a non-UDMA card. Not that it's bad over USB but it's certainly smoother over FireWire.

 

[bwana]

I ahve given this some thought too, and at the moment I cannot really see the point of using the Eye-Fi other than saving the time to d/load. Where I really would like to see it working is when I do trackdays and the girlie in the pits can get the pix as I take them, so by the times the blokes gets off the bikes the pix are on the screens.... Pity tho that the distances out at the track does not allow this.....

What I would do is wirelessly transfer the photo to my phone and then email it to the pit.

I have not really felt the need for faster uploading. I usually plug in my card reader, shove in the card, start the import, and then go off to make coffee. By the time I'm back, the images are in. Aperture generating its previews takes far longer anyway.

I love my UDMA card and I love my UDMA reader.

 

[koffiejunkie]

What I would do is wirelessly transfer the photo to my phone and then email it to the pit.

With about 30GB worth of CF cards, all Sandisk Extreme III or faster, I'm having a slightly difficult time justifying buying another one just to get UDMA. I guess if I get into shooting sport more, that might become a consideration (the 50D supports UDMA) but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

 

[bwana]

With about 30GB worth of CF cards, all Sandisk Extreme III or faster, I'm having a slightly difficult time justifying buying another one just to get UDMA. I guess if I get into shooting sport more, that might become a consideration (the 50D supports UDMA) but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

The 1DMk3 doesn't but there is a real time savings when I'm offloading the card.

 

[Tygerr]

I have the Eye-Fi 8Gb Pro-X2 card. The reason I bought that model is because it allows you to transfer RAW files and to create ad-hoc wi-fi networks to transfer to your phone/tablet.
Having said that though, the wi-fi transfer isn't exactly lightning quick (there is a noticeable speed difference between direct USB tether and wifi), and transferring 16Mp RAW files is quite slow.

So currently I'm shooting with a Nikon D7000 with the twin SD card slots and what I do is put a 16Gb regular SD into slot 1 and the 8Gb Eye-fi in slot 2, then set up the camera to send RAW to the 16Gb and JPG to the 8Gb Eye-fi, so that the Eye-Fi only uploads the JPGs to my laptop for focus review, or to my phone to upload to blog/Facebook/etc. I haven't had the card very long, so I'm still getting used to it. It does seem faster when connecting to my wireless-n router, but I haven't had much chance to test that. That might make transferring RAW files more usable, though you're not exactly going to take a router out into the field with you...

BTW, I'm using the Fe-Fi app on my Android phone for a direct connection between Eye-fi card in camera and phone. Not the prettiest app, but very simple to set up.