On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-09-12 19:12, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> I don't think this is yet practical. Assuming the camera has built-in >> Verizon 4G LTE, and you shoot 400 RAWs in one outing, your camera will >> be pushing files up to the cloud for more than 50 minutes. > > > I'd be happy enough with 802.11b/g, or especially /n, to a server running on > a laptop, if the camera would opportunistically send files over as > continuously as possible. I have no idea how much power that requires as > compared to the power consumed by the rest of the camera system.
The Eye-Fi cards will do this. They do eat up some power but I haven't noticed the drain myself, though at least one other PDMLer finds it excessive. The low effective transfer rate and high latency make sending real-time RAWs impractical for me though. I think the puny CPU in the chip can't handle efficient TCP/IP so it takes 15 seconds or more to send a single K20D RAW (8 Mb) and a K-5 RAW would be awful (25 Mb). I use it to send low-rez JPEG previews instead and that works reasonably well. If you don't need real-time, the card works fine; just slower than the available bandwidth would imply. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
