I bet you could sell more Eye-Fi's if there were an easy way to upload new firmware to the card. It's a fundamentally interesting product but I think you could get a lot more creative uses for it from opening it up more to your customers.
You could also sell more Eye-Fis if they supported CompactFlash in addition to SD. I thought I could use an SD to CF converter, but they are apparently pretty dodgy.
I'm shocked that there isn't a way to wirelessly send pictures to a tablet PC for instant studio proofing with a DSLR that saves to CompactFlash, but there doesn't seem to be.
Yes, rogupta - to Martin's point here... if EyeFi is in your portfolio then I would urge you to push for CF version... I only use pro camera gear which doesn't take SD.
I've talked to the EyeFi guys about this but it seems to fall onto deaf ears.
I also agree that there should be an open platform option for these -- you could sell a ton of these if people could use them for their own uses that go beyond the original concept of uploading to the internet.
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Or use an eye-fi card so it wirelessly uploads all photos (hopefully, i.e. if there's a standard/open network nearby).
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I bet you could sell more Eye-Fi's if there were an easy way to upload new firmware to the card. It's a fundamentally interesting product but I think you could get a lot more creative uses for it from opening it up more to your customers.
You could also sell more Eye-Fis if they supported CompactFlash in addition to SD. I thought I could use an SD to CF converter, but they are apparently pretty dodgy.
I'm shocked that there isn't a way to wirelessly send pictures to a tablet PC for instant studio proofing with a DSLR that saves to CompactFlash, but there doesn't seem to be.
Yes, rogupta - to Martin's point here... if EyeFi is in your portfolio then I would urge you to push for CF version... I only use pro camera gear which doesn't take SD.
I've talked to the EyeFi guys about this but it seems to fall onto deaf ears.
I also agree that there should be an open platform option for these -- you could sell a ton of these if people could use them for their own uses that go beyond the original concept of uploading to the internet.
thanks for the feedback.
Nikon, Canon, and others allow tethered shooting and sell gadgets to replace the wire with radios. Search for wireless tethering.
There's often cheap alternatives too.. e.g. http://petetek.blogspot.com/2009/05/50-wireless-tethering-so...