I was skeptical when the Eye-Fi concept first came out a few years ago. I couldn’t believe that they could get a full WiFi radio stack and flash memory in a SD card and I didn’t think it would actually work in most cameras.
I was wrong.
We now have various models of the Eye-Fi Wireless Flash memory Card in all of our digital cameras. We no longer need to plug our cameras in into our PCs to download pictures. Simply bring the camera into the house and the photos automatically get pulled off the camera to your PC. In our case I have the Eye-Fi software setup to store the photos on my Windows Home Server.
In my Nikon D7000, which has two SD slots, I have an 8GB Eye-Fi Pro X2 card in one slot and a 32GB standard SD card in the other. I have the camera write JPG to the Eye-Fi and RAW to the standard card. This way, for most of the photos I take, I have the quicker to manipulate JPG files automatically ready. If there’s a particularly good photo I want to use RAW with I do the manual process of offloading them from the camera.
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