Upload your pictures as you take them
MORE: click here to see our video review of the Eye-Fi Share Video
The Eye-Fi is a 4GB SD memory card that can talk to a wireless network.
The point of it is that it can upload your photos directly to the internet after they are taken.
Setting up the card was fairly easy, although it had some problems with our office wireless network. Once we took it home it worked much better. You need to set up an account with Eye-Fi and to set preferences such as whether the card will upload all of your photos or just ones you select, and whether to upload photos directly to Flickr, Facebook and so on.
As the name suggests, it can also work with videos the camera takes, which can take a bit longer to upload than pictures – other than that the process is the same. If you don’t choose to share the photos on the web you can upload them directly to a computer on the network. They can also be marked as ‘private’ when uploaded so that they’re not shown to contacts until you choose to make them public.
The card worked well in our tests, although depending on the camera you might need to be quite close to the wireless access point – a few times, the card couldn’t make a connection to our wireless network whereas our phone or laptop could.
Also, the photos are uploaded without any changes – if you prefer to do some editing or touching-up work before you let the admiring public see your work, the Eye-Fi card isn’t for you.
But for family snappers who want to get photos online without too much hassle, the Eye-Fi Share Video works well, although it costs considerably more than the equivalent 4GB SD memory card.
More: click here to see our video review of the Eye-Fi Share Video
