Eye-Fi Mobi Wifi 8GB SDHC Memory Card for Mobile Devices (iPhone, iPad or Android) with 90-day Eyefi Cloud Service

2016-05-10T08:10:53

I purchased this on May 2, 2016 to do portraits for a Mother's Day event. The following is the experience with the card. When I first tried to use the card, it picked up on my in home internet and worked fine. I was able to transfer the photos to my ipad. Then, I turned off my home wifi and tried to use the card with no internet connection. It worked for a little while, then stopped. I was very upset so I decided to take my camera, ipad and the card with me to work the next day so that I could have someone at the Eyefi company walk me through the steps to see what I was doing wrong. On the to work , ( my husband was driving), I decided to try to see if I could make a connection. I turned on the camera, then the ipad, went to my settings, choose the Eyefi card connection, connected, then took a picture. To my surprise, it worked!. I took several more shots and they all were transferred to my ipad. I was very excited and happy. ( Lesson #1 Learned - in order for this to work, you MUST turn on the CAMERA FIRST, then turn on the ipad. ) So, the day of my event came, I started shooting, and the photos were being transferred very nicely. Then, I had a break between photos. When I started shooting again, the card was disconnected. I had to go back to my settings and choose the eyefi connection to connect the card. I keep having to do this again and again because the breaks between photos. (Only good thing is that any photos taken will the card is disconnected, will all transfer when the connection is re-established). At one point it ask me to enter the WiFi code to connect. That was the last straw for me since the code is a bit long and I could not stop to go find the card with the code and then enter the number. So, in the end, i decided to not use it. Conclusion: This card works well if (1) you make sure to turn on the camera first, then turn on the devise you will be using to transfer the files. (2) Once connected, you will need to keep shooting because the card will disconnect not long after your last shot. This is where the problem comes in. When it disconnects, you will need to keep reconnecting it. Depending on how long you remain disconnected, you will have to reenter the pass-code to get the card connected again. When the card works, it is great. It did not fully work for me because of the gaps between shooting time. If you are shooting consistently (i.e high volume photos where there is little gaps between each person being shot, this will work very well for you. Hope this helps. Carol M - Maryland

Carol M.

2014-08-10T21:00:00

We put this in our Nikon D7000, and paired it to my wife's iPhone 5. Easy enough to setup, and works great! Only three caveats: 1) Somehow we don't have the "share to Facebook" button in EyeFi Mobi that we should. So we have to transfer the photos from Mobi to the phone gallery, and share from there. 2) If we transfer photos throughout a day of shooting, we end out transferring the same photos multiple times. 3) I had turned on the EyeFi cloud upload option, but that quickly burned thru a month of cell data, so we're leaving that off from now on!

KEN G.

2014-02-03T19:00:00

This product was better than I expected! I now can transmit my files from my Canon 5D MarkIII to my HTC One Max, which has a 5.9in screen. Much better to see the photos in real time on my phone.

Dusk2DawnPhotography

2014-01-13T19:00:00

Great Product - Fast Upload Works well with Mark III dual CF/SD card setup

newalchemy

2013-09-02T21:00:00

The amazing thing about this purchase is I was looking for a product that would do exactly what this product does. Adorama sent me the advertisement via e-mail I read it, purchased it and now I am buying 2 more. We call that "Win Win" thanks for being proactive.

THOMAS B.

2013-07-16T21:00:00

I purchased this memory card because I wanted a way to share images (whether from photo shoots or photo walks) on social media without having to do a screenshot of my camera's LCD. It was easy to setup on my Canon 60D and my iPhone 4. Had a little trouble with it getting the devices to connect to one another at first but then it worked the way I expected it to. Please keep in mind that this model will only transfer JPG files to your phone/tablet, not RAW files. I like the fact that once the images are on your phone you can send them to friends (or low-res proofs to clients) via email, text, or DropBox; or you can post them to social media with ease. My two issues is that (1) my memory card reader didn't recognize this card at all, leaving me to transfer the files to my computer by way of USB cable and Lightroom. (NOTE: I don't know if this is with all memory card readers) And (2) because it uses Wi-Fi, you have to wait until the transfer is complete to use it to share the images (or use your phone's 3G/4G in the meantime). In the end, I'd recommend it to the photographer that wants to share what they captured from their camera's instantaneously.

JUSTIN R.

2013-07-08T21:00:00

Good to use when u want to upload and not drag a laptop w you . Stright from camera to phone to web all in less than 2 minutes

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