Comments on: Eye-Fi Changes How You Deal with Digital Pictures

By: clintonfitchdotcom

clintonfitchdotcom — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:39 +0000

I really like the idea of Eye-Fi. It bridges that gap of taking the shot and taking the time to upload them. This is where I think most users – me included – fall down on the sharing of photos with friends and family. Great concept and the wide range of supported sites is awesome to see.

Good job – look forward to seeing more!

By: ziv

ziv — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:51:55 +0000

Yes, if you’re in-range of wi-fi, every photo (and in the near future, movie) will upload to either your computer, the web (25+ sites), or both. If you’re out of range, and then you come back into range, and turn on the camera, the uploads will resume. So if you want to erase the “bad” photos before they upload, do that in the camera while you’re out of range, or quickly, while you’re in range.

The easier thing to do is to upload into a private album, go online, erase the bad photos, and then share the album.

You can also turn sharing on/off through the Eye-Fi Manager, ahead of time. So if you know in advance that you don’t want to share, log in to the Manager, and turn sharing off. Then, go, shoot, and even when you come back into range of a known wi-fi, nothing will upload to the web (or to your computer).

The bottom line is — it’s totally up to you. Uploading everything makes things easy and fully automatic so that you won’t need to do anything other than just having fun with the camera

By: Peter Temporale

Peter Temporale — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:23:53 +0000

It does upload automatically?! Interesting.

By: Mike Temporale

Mike Temporale — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:05:55 +0000

@Peter – It does upload automatically, but you can always delete it from the camera first, or from your computer/flickr after it’s uploaded. Or, you can have it set to upload to your computer where you can then look more closely at the image and then decide if you want to keep it or not. I always off load images to my computer and then go through and decide which I want to keep.

By: Peter Temporale

Peter Temporale — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:12:40 +0000

I have to ask,… i hope there’s a way to prevent it from uploading pictures or videos automatically? Otherwise, you might end up uploading a bunch of useless pictures. I’m thinking about all the pics you take with a digital camera – only a small percentage are good and worth uploading.

By: ziv

ziv — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:50:11 +0000

Cool. Shop around online (I love froogle). You can pick one up for $49 (Home) or $59 (Share) or $79 (Explore)…

By: Mike Temporale

Mike Temporale — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:21:55 +0000

Oh! Now that changes things a little. I didn’t realize that I could mix and match the services. Very cool – I’ll be out to pick up one of these cards this week!

By: ziv

ziv — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:48:29 +0000

Forgot to mention — AWESOME write-up

By: ziv

ziv — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:48:07 +0000

Any of our cards can be upgraded with services, and geo is one of those services. So, you can buy the Share card, for example, and add geo or roaming to it (or both) for $14.99 (each). So you can just buy whichever card you want, and mix and match services

http://www.eye.fi/services/

By: MobileJaw

MobileJaw — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:48:07 +0000

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