Comments on: MiFi Does Eye-Fi, Not Sure Why

By: Chris K

Chris K — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:13:08 +0000

As an Eye-Fi shooter, I have to say, this isn’t actually a bad idea at all. It takes no time at all to get photos from the Eye-Fi to another device on a WLAN, but the next step is a doozy.

It’s utterly trivial to kill a DSLR battery while you wait for the 3G network to let you finish uploading, you see. This would let me shoot, upload to the MiFi, and turn off my camera, or at least leave the power management to a more aggressive setting, something which my current Cradlepoint rig can’t do at all.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:15:43 +0000

how so, James? maybe if your talking about someone that has a camera with a eye-fi card already, and uses it to connect to the mifi and then onto the net.

but if you have the one eye-fi card, you have to wait for the eye-fi card to fully upload before clearing and snapping again, but with 3-4 sd cards you can rotate them between camera and mifi.

still, its mostly a value add, perfect for someone that do not already own a eye-fi card but that own a mifi.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:47:24 +0000

I’m disappointed that you left out a very obvious pun in the title!

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:35:01 +0000

Re: your CES example, you can do that with the standard MiFi, no special application required. That’s my whole point as to how much value this adds. ;)

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:06:08 +0000

well the eye-fi card needs the camera to be powered on to work, right? this will offload that to a device that will show much more use then a camera.

consider walking ces, a couple of camera cards on hand. snap one filled, swap them, and have one upload over 3g while you fill the other(s) or work on something else…

and if future mifi devices gets usb otg, or current ones already have, one can use this even on cameras that do not use SD format cards…

By: Luscious

Luscious — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:04:21 +0000

As a semi-pro photographer, it would be much smarter just to carry extra storage cards right with you, the primary reason being time. You don’t always get time to offload images to xyz device during a shoot, and swapping out an SD card goes a lot quicker. When the day is done, then you can offload your storage cards onto a netbook or whatever.

By: Rodfather

Rodfather — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:40:36 +0000

I guess it’s convenient if you take a lot of pictures and need to offload images to the MiFi.
Too bad it won’t work with the MiFi 2200 since it doesn’t have a microSD slot.