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Eye-Fi Connect X2


Opening gifts on Christmas Day is always a joy, but especially so when you find one of these little babies inside YOUR boxes. While it is better to give than to receive  if you get one of these, you will be able to share much more.

The Connect|X2 is the entry level memory card from a complete line of memory cards from Eye-Fi. You might look at the picture to the left and wonder, "what is the big deal about a 4GB SD card?" But look closer.... The card is Wi-Fi enabled.

The Eye-Fi 4GB card is essentially an infinite sized card; limited only by the size of you share of the "cloud" or your hard drive. For once you have one of these cards set-up and installed in your camera, you should not have to often pull the card out to dump photos again.  From the moment you have configured the card to connect to your wireless network you will automatically be sending and syncing your pictures from the card direct to the network locations you specify.

I set mine up straight away on Christmas morning and had pictures uploading to my Picasa account and my computer hard drive withing minutes.

The Eye-Fi comes with a SD card reader that seems specific to the Eye-Fi card (I was when inserted into another SD card reader it just acted like normal memory, but in the Eye-Fi reader it launched entirely differently and started the set-up of the "Eye-Fi Center".

I just followed the directions provided by the wizard to create an Eye-Fi account and start the process to update the firmware to the latest version (pretty standard, no biggee). After answering a few questions and moving through the wizard you get to the meat and potatoes; Network set-up.

    

You will want to be in an area supported by YOUR network when you first set up the card, for if the wireless network is not detectable it is much more difficult to add the network (but not impossible). Once the network is set-up you can then define the sharing preferences and upload preferences. 


That was pretty much it. There are of course many other options:
  • Direct upload to Android or iOS
  • Download to PC (from the Eye-Fi site)
  • Geo-tagging (only for supported models, not mine)
  • Uploading from public hotspots (ons upported models, or with upgrade of service)
  • Video uploading
  • Online Storage at Eye-Fi (unlimited for $50/year)
 Professional photographers will likely benefit more from the higher end models like the Pro|X2 which supports the upload of RAW format in addition to JPEG. With the RAW format files sent direct to the computer or tablet, I imagine that an ambitious pro will be able to review the "dailies" immediately and even edit and share/print directly.

For me and other complete novices with point and click the Connect|X2 is already more than I need. After all, once the card is more than 50% full all the files already sync'd to the network or computer or Android Phone will be deleted to make more room for more photos.

The Eye-Fi line of connected memory for cameras--For The Win. Now I won't be limited to the phones camera for instant gratification of photography and oversharing/blogging/tweeting.
 
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