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Eye-Fi Review - how many months is 2 GB of photos?

I've been using the Eye-Fi since around Sept 2008 and I've only just ran out of space on it. I don't think I've deleted anything off it before, so at this rate I'm guessing I could have shot for a few years, except that I started recording videos from snowboarding. Then again, these stats are skewed because I shot film a lot in the last year.

Honestly, uploading to my computer wirelessly isn't *that* cool, except when I have it set up to upload on the wireless network at work. It saves a copy on my computer at home, and also puts it on Photoshop online so I can edit and post them other places, like blogs an Facebook. The more interesting part is that most of my photos are geotagged, surprisingly, even in places like the beach at Monterey.

Now that I'm shooting video, I have to plug in my camera anyway to download those. I have one of the original Eye-Fi cards, not one of the new video-upload capable ones. I'm not really sure what the difference is but I suspect it's hardware. In the past, they've allowed you to upgrade new 'features', either for free, like the faster uploading, or for a fee, like the geo-tagging and hotspot service.

I've used my Eye-Fi card in both my Nikon D100 with the CF adapter and my Ricoh GRD. It's worked smoothly with both, and I never really noticed problems with decreased battery life.

http://www.eye.fi/

Here are some photos I snapped yesterday while skating around in Golden Gate Park. Yep, we're in the fountain infront of the DeYoung Museum.