Eye-Fi Demo
February 26th, 2009
Today I tried to shoot a business conference tethered – without any cables. It didn’t work because the wifi network had some sort of firewall filtering the signal, but I came home and tested it, and it works great here. Next time I do a photo shoot in my house, I’ll use it for realtime previews. Here’s a screen capture of the Eye-Fi install process and a quick demo. Enjoy!
P.S. I think I paid $59 for this at Best Buy.
To avoid problems with using the wireless networks from others, when I use the Canon wireless transmitter WFT-E1a on my 30D I bring my own wireless router. I run the router with a reserved private subnet such as 10.1.x.x or 192.168.x.x, then configure my camera and laptop to use that router. The router is not connected to the public internet. The software for the WFT-E1a ftps the image over the private subnet to an ftp server running on my laptop. Then Lightroom watches the ftp directory and automatically imports and displays the images as they arrive. In the camera I shoot RAW+(med)JPG and configure the transmitter to only send the JPG for faster viewing and feedback. Later I pull all the RAWs off the CF card.
I thought about bringing my own hub. I was wondering if there are any good portable battery powered hubs, actually. I shoot on location frequently.