Photo Gadget of the Week: Eye-Fi Pro X2 SDHC Card
Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB Wireless SDHC Card
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Following in the footsteps of the previous Eye-Fi series, this next generation, Eye-Fi Pro X2 card cranks it up to light speed with the addition of adding the 802.11n to its wireless uploads. The Eye-Fi series has made the process of getting your files off your camera and onto your computer through Ad-Hoc, quicker and faster. Simplifying your work flow is the name of the game. Aside from the fast connection the Eye-Fi also allows you to upload your RAW files, and geotag your photos.
Currently the Eye-Fi series is only made in the SDHC format, however if you own a DSLR that uses CF, you can use a SD/CF adapter. This way is not 100% endorsed by Eye-Fi, but it has been known to work, and can be a better solution than forking out the cash for a wireless file transmitter, if you happen to be on a tight budget. For this reason alone, that makes the Eye-Fi Pro X2 SDHC our cool photo gadget of the week.
Retail is $150. The demand is pretty hot right now as the site has them listed as backordered, and eBay is selling them for $200.
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Ron, thanks for featuring the Eye-Fi Pro X2. We don’t recommend the CF adapters due to the potential for photo corruption and reduced range. You can read more about this here:
http://support.eye.fi/product-info/camera-compatability/compatibility/known-issues-with-compact-flash-card-adapters/
With more DSLRs supporting SD, we hope that more of your readers will be able to use the Eye-Fi cards.
Thanks,
Randhir
Randhir,
Thanks for your reply, please see my response to Ziv.
I want one! thanks for sharing
Ron,
Thanks a lot for the awesome write-up.
Several things:
Best Buy stores, have them in stock. Just go to http://www.bestbuy.com and enter your zip code, to find which store near you carries which card. Some stores carry all 3 X2 cards cards, and some carry just the Connect and Explore X2.
More online stores will have them in stock, soon. We’re doing our best to meet the demand.
On the CF adapter:
http://support.eye.fi/product-info/camera-compatability/compatibility/known-issues-with-compact-flash-card-adapters/
Please don’t do it. There are several known issues with any SD/SDHC card, not just Eye-Fi Cards. You’ll get corruption, lower Wi-FI range, and some cameras will not even recognize the X2 in the CF adapter.
Trust us. Just stick with SD/SDHC cameras and stay tuned via our mailing list, so that you would know if Eye-Fi may or may not release a CF product in the future:
http://www.eye.fi/about/mailing-list
Thx -
Ziv.
Ziv,
Thanks for your response. I did include the CF warning, but as you can tell us photogs would love to have a compatible CF version of any sorts. Your product greatly helps out the workflow and would be of benefit to photogs who use the DSLRs with CF in them.
Please keep us in the loop, especially if you have something in the cards. You would make alot more photogs extremly happy.
Thanks.
#iwantone I can’t imagine what eye-fi will bring to the table next year.
Thank you :-) Following you on Twitter :-)