Share Easier: the Eye-Fi Card

by Aaron on December 15, 2009

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.

Our poll last week indicated that 95% of the readers of Social Photo Talk use photo sharing sites such as Flickr or even Facebook. It’s a bunch of fun to share photos with friends, family, and clients, but like many things in photography there’s a few moving parts that are often involved. Many times I simply want to get the photos online quickly without having to get back to my desk, take the memory card out of the camera, put it into the card reader, and then manually upload to Flickr. In the past that has been my routine but you might have heard about the Eye-Fi card which changes that process.

The Eye-Fi is slick: it’s a SD memory card (hence, wireless) with built-in WiFi. It stores up to 4GB of images and works in any camera with a SDHC card slot. Once you’ve taken some photos, Eye-Fi can copy those files to your computer (storing them in date-based folders) and also upload photos (or videos) directly to photo sharing sites. Check out this video which explains more:

I don’t have an Eye-Fi card (yet) but I’m seriously considering it now that my Canon S90 uses SDHC and is the perfect candidate for wanting to be able to get photos online quickly. Lately I’ve been slacking a bit about pushing photos to Flickr and I might pick up an Eye-Fi card after Christmas.

What do you think? Have you used an Eye-Fi card? I think it has the potential to make photo sharing a LOT easier amongst the casual crowd that might not want to go through a bunch of manual processes to get a few snapshots up to Flickr…

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nerdliness

Step in the right direction, but I think I'll personally hold off until there's some sort of 3G/4G version that can allow me to upload directly to Flickr, etc. without having to be near a PC. Not sure if I could personally justify the cost when it's really only streamlining the process a tad. I mean, you still have to be near your own WLAN to upload, right? So if I snapped a photo of Superman rescuing a kitten from a tree, I'd still have to run home before I could share that shot with someone else.

For me, I don't think the added value is worth the cost. If I'm in that much of a hurry to share a photo, I'll sacrifice the quality a bit, use the quickly improving camera on my SmartPhone, and email the shot to Flickr from the scene.

But I've been wrong before. Maybe I just need them to send me an Eye-Fi card to dink around with and I'll be converted.

Nick @ SCUBAMarketing

I've been using an Eye Fi for over a year now, starting with just the regular model, then adding in one that supports video. It's great. It may not be as fast as some SD cards, but I just use it in my compact camera mostly, have it set to sync to a few of my most accessed routers and away everything goes.