Still, it should help out with larger file sizes produced by high resolution DSLRs. The boost in potential WiFi speed – from b/g to b/g/n – might make a noticeable difference for direct transfers, but we didn't see a huge change over earlier Eye-Fi cards.
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We had better results using a MiFi portable wireless router as intermediary. We wish Eye-Fi Manager made it slightly more straightforward, though you have to set up the host network on your laptop manually, then go through registering the new network with the SDHC card in the usual way. That could come in useful if you're working away from your home or office network. As well as setting up networks (which can either be discovered locally, as with regular WiFi connections, or inputted manually by SSID and password should the network itself not be within range) the Manager app also allows you to set exactly what happens to images when they're transferred.Īd-hoc connectivity sounds like it should bypass the initial WiFi network setup, but actually it's a way of directly connecting the Eye-Fi Pro X2 to your computer without a wireless router in-between. That's a case of plugging the SDHC card into the included USB reader and installing the company's latest Eye-Fi Manager, an app built on Adobe Air. The Pro X2 is a class 6 card, and there are various geotagging, ad-hoc, hotspot and other options too.īefore you can use the wireless functionality, the Eye-Fi Pro X2 has to be configured to recognize whichever WiFi networks you'll want to use. The X2 line is also the first from the company to use their new chipset, which they reckon also improves performance especially with RAW images. The first-gen models had a relatively small quantity of storage and WiFi b/g support this third-gen Eye-Fi Pro X2 packs 8GB and 2.4GHz WiFi b/g/n for faster transfers. The Eye-Fi concept is simple: instead of just fitting flash memory into an SDHC card, squeeze a WiFi radio in there too, and allow the card to connect to wireless networks and instantly offload whatever photos and video you shoot.
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Still, is it worth $149.99? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. It'll also upload shots automatically to Facebook, Flickr and other online galleries, together with geotagging them, and it'll do it faster too thanks to WiFi 802.11n and a new chipset.
The new Eye-Fi Pro X2 is an 8GB SDHC memory card that promises to wirelessly transfer your photos and video to your home or work computer without demanding you mess with cables and card readers. Eye-Fi have managed to do – if not the impossible – then then unlikely: make camera storage fun.