Any opinions / recent experience on WiFi enabled SD cards?
I have several of the old generation Eye-Fi SD cards, and they end-of-life'd the product. I'm annoyed, but I also understand how product life cycles work. This broke my primary usage mode. Unfortunately, it's not clear what, if anything meets my needs.
At this point, I only care about bulk, automatic transfer between the SD card (in the SLR) and my phone. I don't care about it working in Hotspot mode or transferring to anyone else's cloud service. My phone will upload them to Google Photos just fine.
What I don't want is a cloud subscription required for my use case, I don't want to have to manually select the photos to transfer, and I want it to work reliably. If I have to set up my phone as a hot spot or choose to connect my phone to the hotspot of the card, fine, that doesn't need to be automatic. Basically, I want to do a thing on my phone (run the app and/or configure wifi) and have all the photos on the SD card get transferred to my phone.
Anyone use FlashAir, Transcend, Flucard, EZShare, or the current generation of Eye-Fi in this mode and happy with the product? I think the Eye-Fi Mobi cards might work, but they push their useless cloud service really hard, but I think it works without that service, but am not sure. The various other ones seem to have their own issues.
Opinions welcome.
I have several of the old generation Eye-Fi SD cards, and they end-of-life'd the product. I'm annoyed, but I also understand how product life cycles work. This broke my primary usage mode. Unfortunately, it's not clear what, if anything meets my needs.
At this point, I only care about bulk, automatic transfer between the SD card (in the SLR) and my phone. I don't care about it working in Hotspot mode or transferring to anyone else's cloud service. My phone will upload them to Google Photos just fine.
What I don't want is a cloud subscription required for my use case, I don't want to have to manually select the photos to transfer, and I want it to work reliably. If I have to set up my phone as a hot spot or choose to connect my phone to the hotspot of the card, fine, that doesn't need to be automatic. Basically, I want to do a thing on my phone (run the app and/or configure wifi) and have all the photos on the SD card get transferred to my phone.
Anyone use FlashAir, Transcend, Flucard, EZShare, or the current generation of Eye-Fi in this mode and happy with the product? I think the Eye-Fi Mobi cards might work, but they push their useless cloud service really hard, but I think it works without that service, but am not sure. The various other ones seem to have their own issues.
Opinions welcome.
Matthew Gray - 2017-01-14 18:40:05-0500 - Updated: 2017-01-14 18:40:22-0500
+Steve Thomas I'm not understanding your response. This is about photography. I'm asking if other photographers have had experiences with WiFi SD cards, for photography. That's the only thing people use WiFi SD cards for.