Best wifi solution for D90.. SD Cards?
I just spent some time with my Eye-Fi x2 Pro and realized. It has been terminated from usefulness by the new owners «Keenai.com» I want to be able to take pictures and transfer them to my phone or ipad while on the road. We are a real estate company and it is helpful to do this on the fly so we do not have to return to the office. We also do pictures of our agents in house and it is nice to see them transfer to a bigger screen live without having to remove the card or show them previews on the D90 screen What does the trick? I am hesitant to deal with keenai.com. (eye-fi) Their ios app gave me no control of image uploads and started uploading my camera roll on installation. What are our best options?
There are other makers of similar cards. Another option is to get an «on the go» USB cable and a card reader for your phone or tablet.
Toshiba has released a programming API for its FlashAir cards and I saw that somebody has written a browser script with it that polls the card regularly and updates the browser with the images, so that might be used to push photos to a PC. It’s one of the cheaper wifi cards too. What happened with EyeFi is really scandalous. Users revolted against their decision to brick all old EyeFi cards. The company said they’d release a new application so people could use the old cards, but the application asks for a serial number which you have to go online for, and the website didn’t work when I tried it, so presumably the cards won’t too. It seems that EyeFi or whoever bought the company think the real bucks are in the wifi card as a transfer-to-cloud solution and a continual subscription income to them, and are not in the least interested in letting people use old cards without such an account, even if they have the expertise to make them work properly, which is not entirely clear to me.
fishy wishy wrote: Toshiba has released a programming API for its FlashAir cards and I saw that somebody has written a browser script with it that polls the card regularly and updates the browser with the images, so that might be used to push photos to a PC. It’s one of the cheaper wifi cards too. What happened with EyeFi is really scandalous. Users revolted against their decision to brick all old EyeFi cards. The company said they’d release a new application so people could use the old cards, but the application asks for a serial number which you have to go online for, and the website didn’t work when I tried it, so presumably the cards won’t too. It seems that EyeFi or whoever bought the company think the real bucks are in the wifi card as a transfer-to-cloud solution and a continual subscription income to them, and are not in the least interested in letting people use old cards without such an account, even if they have the expertise to make them work properly, which is not entirely clear to me.
Thanks for the input. The eye-fi was a great solution. I am very comfortable with my D90 and being able to transfer pics while doing portraits was great for my staff. They were more involved with the sessions. Transferring to my iPhone and adding to Dropbox was also easy when shooting homes for our real estate office. I am not even sure eye-fi is in business. Not sure if buying a eye-fi mobi would work and am hesitant to buy back into their business model. does the Nikon wifi adapter work with d90? Does any other card actually work?
Can you elaborate on why the EyeFi doesn’t work anymore, or what the requirements are for it to work? I find it surprisingly messy and confusing. The way a wifi card should work to my mind is, you install an application, then you start using the card. EyeFi introduced weird steps of accounts and serial numbers as if it’s a gateway drug to an online account subscription. Nobody does this to me for a bluetooth connection, for instance.
In the past the SD card would broadcast wifi when inserted into the camera. It no longer does so. The Eye-Fi (keenai) app is asking for registration info for my card. I have followed their instructions and recovered my wifi password but that is not the information needed to register the card. I emailed support with no response. My internet reading leads me to believe they have disabled wifi on X2 Cards. They did this by updating the apps on ios and desktop to time out the wifi. so now I own a slow 8gig sd card. I just want to be able to transfer my pictures from the camera to my phone (then dropbox) while on the road Removing it and putting in a reader and transferring using ios devices might be possible but I have not looked into it and it seems counter intuitive.
SOLVED! Here is how to connect the Toshiba FlashAir WiFi SD card to your Nikon D90: Put the FlashAir card in your Nikon D90 Turn on the Camera Go to MENU Go to the sign of PENCIL (settings) Go to TIMERS/AE LOCK Set the AUTO METER OFF DELAY to 30 min (max time) Go to MONITOR OFF DELAY and there will be 4 settings under it: PLAYBACK MENUS SHOOTING INFO DISPLAY IMAGE REVIEW Set all of these to 10 min (max time) YOU ARE DONE! Take a few pictures Put the FlashAir card, turn on the Camera, go to the WiFi settings of your phone, it should be displaying FlashAir, connect to it using the default password of FlashAir i.e. 12345678 Download the APP of FlashAir from app store Start the APP, select the pictures you want to download or email and the rest is self explanatory. ENJOY!
Hi D90amer.
I have a Nikon D90 camera, like you.
I need to transfer the pictures by wireless, directly to my computer (without a router). Do you still use the FlashAir™ W-02 SD card of Toshiba, with your D90 Nikon ?
Are you still satisfied about it ? Thanx
Mathieu
I think the best solution may be to get a WD wireless pro drive that has an included SD card slot. You may get 10 hours battery life. THere are 4 sizes, from 1 to 4 TB. THere may be a way to get more power via a car to USB adapter. When you get home, you can plug the WD drive via USB to any computer. There could be a wireless connection for a phone. WD has a newer edition just released at CES. THis new edition may be using a solid state memory instead of the usual hard drive platter.
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Mathieu P-cha wrote: Hi D90amer.
I have a Nikon D90 camera, like you.
I need to transfer the pictures by wireless, directly to my computer (without a router). Do you still use the FlashAir™ W-02 SD card of Toshiba, with your D90 Nikon ?
Are you still satisfied about it ? Thanx
Mathieu
If you want to use a wifi card I’d suggest you opt for the W-04 series cards. They have much faster wifi (802.11n) than the older cards and you can buy them in sizes (32Gb or 64Gb) that make them much more useful for larger sensor sizes and fast camera to card speeds (I know the D90 is ‘only’ 12Mp but useful none the less). You need to check Toshiba’s FlashAir support site. I don’t recall if they provide a PC (i.e. WIndows) application. Mostly the support focus was on connected devices (i.e. iOS or Android). The Toshiba iOS app is quite serviceable and reliable but I add ShutterSnitch as a more all round capable image manager. Edit>> I seem to recall if you connect to the card from a PC you can open the directory via a card web address in any browser. So there is a way of using a PC easily. However, please do double check this before buying! Also note, these FlashAir cards can only work in ‘ad-hoc’ (peer to peer) wireless modes where you connect to the card wirelessly directly from your device without going through another independent (i.e. wireless router/access point) network that each device is connected to. This latter mode is known as ‘infrastructure’ mode. From what you write above, it looks like you want an ad-hoc mode connection anyway. It can nevertheless be frustrating to be limited to ad-hoc because you can’t use the normal wireless connection to receive images from the card and transmit those elsewhere without disconnecting from the card and reconnecting to your (e.g. house) network. (I mention because some of the, now defunct, Eyefi cards could use infrastructure modes.) Otherwise, these FlashAir cards are the best performing wifi SD cards available now and are actually a good deal faster than most cameras that have built in wifi which (certainly for Nikon and also for many other brands) still only support 802.11g.
D90amer wrote: SOLVED! Here is how to connect the Toshiba FlashAir WiFi SD card to your Nikon D90: Put the FlashAir card in your Nikon D90 Turn on the Camera Go to MENU Go to the sign of PENCIL (settings) Go to TIMERS/AE LOCK Set the AUTO METER OFF DELAY to 30 min (max time) Go to MONITOR OFF DELAY and there will be 4 settings under it: PLAYBACK MENUS SHOOTING INFO DISPLAY IMAGE REVIEW Set all of these to 10 min (max time) YOU ARE DONE! Take a few pictures Put the FlashAir card, turn on the Camera, go to the WiFi settings of your phone, it should be displaying FlashAir, connect to it using the default password of FlashAir i.e. 12345678 Download the APP of FlashAir from app store Start the APP, select the pictures you want to download or email and the rest is self explanatory. ENJOY!
wow just googling got your feedback on wifi sd card from toshiba. does this sd card consumes alot of battery? can it last a day?
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Как в Nikon D90 включить режим беспроводной синхронизации вспышки?(
Открой раздел е: Брекетинг/вспышка (стр. 185 Руководства пользователя твоей камеры) , а в нём — подраздел е2:Управление встроенной вспышкой.
См.
«4 Режим управления. Предназначен для использования встроенной вспышки в качестве управляющей для одной или нескольких ведомых вспышек (стр. 188)».
Вот на стр. 188-190 всё подробно и расписано.
Никаких IR-синхронизаторов не нужно, Тем более нельзя вставлять его в горячий башмак, потому что он будет мешать подняться встроенной вспышке.
Если уж применять светосинхронизатор, то только срабатывающий от 2-го импульса встроенной вспышки, и устанавливать его либо на стенд, либо на кронштейн-планку, либо на мини-штатив.
установка светосинхронизатора
ведомая вспышка
В настройках «встроенной вспышки» переключить ее в командный режим. А выносную пыху в режим ведомой. Открыть встроенную и поджигать сколько душе угодно.
прочтите инструкцию к выносной вспышке там написано. Вкратце, она делается ведомой, а встроенная используется для поджига. Можно прикупить отдельно ИФ поджиг, вешается на башмак. Какие кнопки и какие установки делать, написано в инструкции к вспышке, т. к. на разных моделях немного по разому произзводится включение ведомости, если производится (некоторые вспышки не поддерживают этот режим).
Если внешнюю пыху нужно поджечь встроенной, то встроенную нужно перевести через меню камеры в ручной режим. Иначе внешняя будет поджигаться не основным импульсом, а предварительным. Можно принудительно уменьшить мощность вспышки. Внешнюю нужно перевести в режим «Slave». Вот, собственно, и все.