Nikon designs camera for Eye-Fi

Author: Gareth Halfacree
Published: 31st January 2008
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The Eye-Fi card will be a perfect partner for Nikon's D60, although it won't come bundled.

The Eye-Fi card will be a perfect partner for Nikon's D60, although it won't come bundled.

Camera company Nikon has announced that the next digital SLR camera it has designed will include compatibility tweaks for the ridiculously named Eye-Fi wireless SD card.

The camera itself is a fairly standard DSLR, but it's the support for the rather interesting Eye-Fi WiFi SD card – try saying that ten times fast – that will make it stand out from the crowd. This marks the first deal between a major camera manufacturer and industry newcomer Eye-Fi.

The Eye-Fi card itself is a rather snazzy piece of kit: combining a teeny-tiny flash memory chip for data storage and an 802.11b WiFi radio in an SD card is no mean feat, and it brings a certain immediacy to taking shots. Supporting WEP, WPA, and WPA2, the card is designed to automagically connect to your wireless access point and whisk your pictures away to a photo sharing site of your choice. It'll even resize the images if you don't want to be uploading the high-res originals.

The card also comes with the Eye-Fi manager software, which offers the rather more useful feature of being able to transfer images to your desktop sans wires.

Although the card is already compatible with the vast majority of cameras out there, the D60 is the first model expressly designed to use it. The camera will feature a special mode that is automatically activated when it detects an Eye-Fi card, which will hopefully prevent the timeouts and connection errors that can plague Eye-Fi usage on some cameras.

Fancy the idea of the Eye-Fi enough to invest in a whole new camera, or are you happy whipping out your card reader when it comes time to transfer the images? Give us your opinions over in the forums.
Quote Jamie 31st January 2008, 09:07
Why didn't nikon just put it in the body with a nice big antenna like Canon does.
Quote DXR_13KE 31st January 2008, 10:40
ssswweeeettt!!!! i had once the idea of making something like this.... this means i can get a camera and start snapping photos while they are caught by my laptop. :D
Quote rhuitron 31st January 2008, 10:46
^ I as well.

I thought it up like 5 years ago though!

Hmmmmph.

lol
Quote Tomm 31st January 2008, 13:13
I annoys me having to wait for 200 10Mb RAW photos to arrive via USB 2. Surely wifi would be painfully slow by comparison? It would work out much quicker to find the cable and plug it in and then tidy up again later.

Although I suppose that's not really the point. Wireless > wires.
Quote DXR_13KE 31st January 2008, 13:57
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Originally Posted by Tomm
I annoys me having to wait for 200 10Mb RAW photos to arrive via USB 2. Surely wifi would be painfully slow by comparison? It would work out much quicker to find the cable and plug it in and then tidy up again later.

Although I suppose that's not really the point. Wireless > wires.

the current wireless system can get to 125Mb/s....... the N type can get to 250Mb/s iirc

a 133x SD card can get 20.0MB/s..... 160Mb/s i think....
a 66x like i have in my camera can get 10MB/s, 80Mb/s. i think wireless is very capable compared to the media the camera is writing on....
Quote TomH 31st January 2008, 21:51
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Originally Posted by DXR_13KE
the current wireless system can get to 125Mb/s....... the N type can get to 250Mb/s iirc

a 133x SD card can get 20.0MB/s..... 160Mb/s i think....
a 66x like i have in my camera can get 10MB/s, 80Mb/s. i think wireless is very capable compared to the media the camera is writing on....
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't 802.11b, as described in the Eye-Fi blurb, limited to 11Mbit/sec? How are they claiming 125Mbit/sec?

I'm aware that 'some' manufacturers uses non-standard extensions to the 802.11g specification, in order to reach 108Mbit/sec speeds (requiring a compatible AP, of course) but the article specifically mentioned 802.11b..
Quote DXR_13KE 1st February 2008, 00:21
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Originally Posted by TomH
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't 802.11b, as described in the Eye-Fi blurb, limited to 11Mbit/sec? How are they claiming 125Mbit/sec?

I'm aware that 'some' manufacturers uses non-standard extensions to the 802.11g specification, in order to reach 108Mbit/sec speeds (requiring a compatible AP, of course) but the article specifically mentioned 802.11b..

i was remembering the values from the top of my head, lets see what i can dig up....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
802.11g
typical = 19Mb/s Max = 54 Mbit/s

now for the 125Mb/s part...... the asus WL-520gC apparently can do 125Mb/s and it is a very basic router, the buffalo WHR-G54S can do the same thing.... again a basic model..... i think one can work with the other, i really don't know about the capabilities of this card.

edit: ow wait, wireless b? what the hell?

edit2: http://www.eye.fi/a-wireless-memory-card/#features
Quote:
Eye-Fi Card works with 802.11g, 802.11b and backwards-compatible 802.11n wireless networks
G after all, there is no logic in using B, its to slow.
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