Paul, I can't comment on Bluetooth connectivity, but a few observations on EyeFi.
Nutshell: I wouldn't count on it in a critical situation. I got the Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB card for Christmas last year. Since then I have tried to use it in a wireless tethering capacity at two studio shoots. I was able to get it all setup at home and apparently working, but when I setup at the shoot (ie away from my home) it failed to connect. First time I realized that I needed to use Ad-Hoc WiFi mode; the second time -- I have no frikken clue. It was just completely balky. The other thing is: it's disappointingly slow. You don't want to be transferring raw images! Even large JPEGs take way too long -- much longer than WiFi is capable of. There's something wrong with the way the EyeFi firmware works as it comes nowhere near to efficient use of the available bandwidth. The EyeFi software is annoying and persnickety too. It's really designed to automatically upload images from a P&S directly to a cloud service like Instagram, and getting it to do anything else is difficult. It can be done, but they just don't make it easy. The first annoyance is that the software insists on you setting up a profile with EyeFi even though you probably just want to directly connect from your camera to your PC/Mac, but oh no: you _must_ configure a connection to EyeFi headquarters. If you don't do that you cannot complete any other configuring. Pain in the ass. I had high hopes for the Eye-Fi but it has ended up unused in my kit bag. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The other day when talking about my need to get a photo to the Times rapidly, > Larry suggested an eyefi card. Good idea, but not something I had time to > work out Sunday afternoon. But now that the auto show scrum has concluded for > me, I want to look into that. (The Times asked if I would come to New York to > work their show in the spring, so I'm thinking that I have time to upgrade my > act.) I don't want to send pics directly to Times tower, but I would like the > camera to bluetooth them to my computer. Is there a card that can do that? > Wifi capability would be good as well, but I don't want to count on that. > When 1000 people are using it, you can't always be sure it will work. > Bluetooth and wifi communication from the camera would be great. > > Any suggestions? > > Paul > -- > 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. -- -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.
