In the last few days there were a couple of questions about the meaning of the Eye-Fi card feature in the new Pentax Camera bodies.
Today, I listened to the latest TWIP podcast and there was an interview with one of the co-founders of the Eye-fi company. It boils down to this. Eye-fi has made agreements with many camera companies to insert code into the camera firmware. When you insert the card, new menus and icons appear for controlling the card and giving feedback via the camera LCD. Also, the firmware assures that the camera won't time out and turn off in the middle of a transfer. The interview motivated me to go check out the eye-fi website. There is a long list of details, by camera model, that talks about compatibility and other issues with different eye-fi cards. For instance, some camera models have so much metal in the body that wi-fi range is severely reduced. Here's the link <http://support.eye.fi/> The new "mobi" cards look interesting. The mobi cards can communicate directly with a smartphone or tablet with no need for a computer for setup or a wi-fi network use. I can see where that may be very useful. I think it might be much handier than typical tethered shooting. GS George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
