Wireles SD card, Eye-Fi or Flucard? anyone have experience with both? i'm planning for NEX-5N.

Flu card - singapore company
http://www.flu-card.com/

Eye-Fi - US company
http://www.eye.fi/


Which better in terms of
1) speed
2) power consumption
3) features

* I saw ppl written eye-fi power saving is bad....

get the eye fi

ive considered both...
i decided to go with Eye-Fi.
bcoz the software support would be btter....although i m just assuming...
but after buying...no regrets at all...
now i dun need to take out the SD card...the pics all stream direct to my Mac...
if i m out of the house...it will send to my iPhone.

I'm considering the Eye-Fi as well.

Does it drain the battery a lot?

on my camera...
since it is natively supported...
i can switch off the Wifi antenna...
so i dun see it draining battery...
for other cameras....i have no idea...

Thanks for the response.

Am tempted to get it. I think only one seller has stock in Garage Sales.

Or do you know any shops that actually sell it? Planning to get it actually for my NEX.

i got mine from Shashinki.
But i think the price is slightly higher.

Actually, flu card is relatively new while eye fi has been around for a long time.

Wireless transfer is truly a very convenient affair. U don't even hv to bother about plucking out the card fr ur cam for transfers and u'll grow dependant on it before long. But some things needs to b pointed out.

1) transfers can take a while. Speeds r not exactly on par to direct transfers so don't expect anything close to it. Ur cam has to be on during that time.

2) the card does get abit hot in ur camera so to some, that may b an issue.

3) eye fi supports for cameras may still need some work done but their support is amazing. I remember I first used Eyefi for my Olympus ep3 and the support was terrible for it. I joined their forum n communicated directly with the support team. Within a week, they cme out a patch for me n I had no problems ever since even with my new OMD.

Eye-Fi!!!!!

i got it from there...

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Added on June 28, 2012, 3:18 pmi like the fact that we dun need to cabot the card in and out!

din know u oso using one!

so its true...wise minds think alike...

This post has been edited by xandman: Jun 28 2012, 03:18 PM

I've the flucard and I would say get the Eye-Fi.
With the Flucard, you need to purchase an additional app if you are using iOS.
It's free with Eye-fi.

Also the flucard drains my battery 500% faster.
It could drain my 500D battery within 1-2 hours. That battery can last me for 10 hours easily. The flucard also gets incredibly hot.

Lol. More like lazy buggers often differ. Hahaha

hahahahaha.
if i shoot around the house.
when i go back to the pc...
all pics inside d...damn cool liddat!

I'm using the Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB with my 5D3 and also Olympus XZ-1. Had some trouble setting up initially but finally managed to solve it and now it's working perfectly. Very very convenient

But it's advisable to transfer only Small JPGs since it takes quite a while to transfer. Tested the wireless transfer rate and it's about 1MB/s. So if you're JPG is 5MB it'll take 5 seconds before it appears on your iPhone/iPad/laptop etc.

yeah true that.
For RAW usually i still do the traditional method...

Hi Guy, I just get a flu-card pro 8GB from KLCC RM150 yesterday after posting this topic (sorry didnt check ur replies and go buy),

my conclusion for this card is PLEASE DO NOT BUY!!!

i had tested many ways to get it work. here are my finding

1) Server upload
- fail to upload image to their free portal, i am using unifi, and i tried both portal user/pwd login and card user/pwd login, wait for very long dono is success or fail! anyway it never success.
- connect to internet (static ip) FTP server, it is a high-speed ftp server, still fail.
- success connect to local FTP server, success but slow, uploaded few photo then no more upload...mati oledi?

2) Direct upload (as AP) - this is the only working mode!!!!
-success, but not stable, sometime i cant find the SSID.
-Drain a lot of power when wifi was activated my new uTough 6020 battery drop from two bar to one red flashing bar
-card get hot easily
3) control picture, sometimes not restore back even u take out and plug back the card.

4) firmware update is not stable, tested 4 time with one success.

5) Card reader sometime not recognize the card, some times it did... got ghost inside the card?

6) NO FREE apps and program to make ur life easier.

7) very noisy beeping, do not test in office else ur boss will come get u LOL

again PLEASE DO NOT BUY this card!!!
i had make a new order from ebay for new eye-fi. this flu-card is going to stick in my laptop sd card slot to transfer file to phone

Thanks for the heads up!
And why ebay?
is it cheaper?
Becoz we have local dealers here like Shashinki.

as i said, eye fi lor

best on the fly editing paired with ipad

Thinking of getting the EYE-FI ProX2 but will the WPS(Geotagging) feature for EYE-FI ProX2 work in Malaysia?

This post has been edited by denzel88: Jun 30 2012, 03:14 PM

geo tagging is useless unless u have wifi
meaning if ur card isnt connected to wifi/data service, there will be no geotag

I think it need not be connected to wifi to work.
However it does requires u to be within the range of registered wifi network.

http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/features/geotagging

Not really a useful feature especially if you don't shoot in the city.

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Added on July 7, 2012, 8:30 amXandman, I noticed you once tried to sell ur pro x2 in a garage post (before you make this statement). What makes closed the thread after that? Are you keeping it for daily use now?

This post has been edited by kcchong: Jul 7 2012, 08:30 AM

i actually closed it for a while only.
going to re-open soon.
y?
r u interested?

kcchong, maybe my england isnt very great britain
but to be within the range of registered wifi network, doesnt it means it need to be connected to wifi to work?

Itchy to get this card. Shoud I ?

not a necessity, but its good to have

Get the Eye Fi as it is more established and stable.

A lot of people have trouble using the Flu card and the customer service is non existent.

HTH.

Now I have the eyefi card for months, and love it very much, this card is 10 times better then flu card, my flu card is no more in use. Flu card is rubbish flush to toilet I will not heart pain.

Ebay is cheaper, I just get it rm120. 4gb 2x class 6 Original box from USA. Come with card reader and manual.

How good is this eyefi? First the apps and program is free.
Less heat and battery life longer then flucard. And success upload rate is almost 100%.

Currently my android phone and pc have the apps installed. When under registered wifi area, every photo taken will be uploaded to eyefi account. Then my phone (default device) will sync the picture back to phone n share my photo to facebook automatically. Fb is my default web upload. I had tested with picasa, flikr, evernote, ftp. All success.

When Ur in jungle and no WiFi, every shoots will upload to Ur phone via WiFi direct, Ur phone will automatically connect to eyefi card(that is the only connectable connection in jungle), so when u reach home, it will automatically pload to Ur Fb/pc.

Basically u can say shoot and wait awhile, Ur will get Ur photo in Ur phone and facebook. Simple and no need plug in plug out the USB port. Good for picnics, travel, u can shoot and view it in Ur phone or laptop.

Also another great function, you can set auto delete the successfully uploaded picture when reach certain disk quotas.
So I never face any sdcard full as long as my phone is with me.
Ps* u still can shoot photo and store it like normal sdcard when u didn't bring any phone/ laptop with u, and it will do its job when u enter connectable WiFi zone.

Flu card is totally nothing and unstable.

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Added on September 13, 2012, 10:38 pmGET it! Else u miss something in Ur life hahahaha

This post has been edited by willer: Sep 13 2012, 10:42 PM