Eye-Fi has announced that its Wi-Fi SD cards will get a “Smart Boost” update on February 12th. With Smart Boost, your card will be able to tell whether or not your computer is on and in range of your camera and, if it is, photos will be offloaded from your camera to your computer over your home network and then your computer will handle the heavy lifting of uploading the photos to your online photo-sharing site.
If your computer isn’t on, your camera will upload your photos directly to the web-based Eye-Fi service, which will then shoot the photos to your favorite photo-sharing site AND shoot them back down to your computer when it’s turned back on. Rad, no?
Also, Eye-Fi is now in cahoots with Ritz Camera.
Our new relationship with Ritz Camera for the first time brings the Eye-Fi Card to “brick and mortar” retail stores as well as allowing Eye-Fi Card users the ability to automatically upload photos to the RitzPix Online Imaging Service. Ritz, whose store brands include, Ritz Camera Centers, Wolf’s Camera, Kit’s Camera and others has over 1000 camera centers across the United States. This new online and retail combination enables customers the ability to automatically upload their photos, order prints online and pick them up in an hour from most Ritz locations.
The last sentence is very intriguing. Imagine setting your parents camera up for them and saying, “Okay, just take a bunch of photos and then go to Ritz in an hour.” Nice.
New Eye-Fi “Smart Boost” upgrade and Ritz Camera news at PMA 08 [EyeFi Blog]
Last I checked it was still 100 bucks for a SINGLE gig of space.
For that price I could get over a hundred (100) regular 1gb SD cards, or one (1) regular 16gb SDHC card.
With 16gb I would only need to unload photos once every what, month? two months? Mebbe three months. Now THAT would save me alot of time.
I understand your point dwalk51, it’s expensive, we know. But if your fancy 16gb card gets stolen or damaged in anyway, all those pictures are gone. I think everyone should keep offsite copies of their pictures. You can’t replace moments.
First, I realized that its 2gb, not 1gb, My bad.
Okay, well thats a good point, and I’m not saying I wouldn’t ever put my pictures back onto my computer but for me, when I don’t want the hassle of a DSLR (even though they can take such great pictures) I generally use a decent point and shoot.
And 2gb just doesn’t cover it for me. If I want to go to the mountains with my friends and take pictures (and I take alot of pictures) then I want something big enough so that I don’t have to transfer them all back over to my computer half way through the weekend.
And thats why Eye-fi doesn’t fit my needs.