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Send Photo's directly from your camera to your Mac or the WWW! 2GB Eye-Fi Geo exclusive to Apple retail - Harbourmaster - 07-29-2009
TAUW wrote:
The Eye-Fi Memory Card sends photos wirelessly from your camera to the destination of your choice, like a computer or the web. Back in January of '08, the product gained Mac and iPhoto support, and support for MobileMe was added in September '08.
This week, Eye-Fi announced the Eye-Fi 2GB Geo, which is currently exclusive to Apple retail, both online and brick-and-mortar stores. As you've probably guessed, the Geo adds geotagging to the mix. Once snapped and tagged, photos will be sent to a folder on your Mac or directly to iPhoto, all tagged and ready to go. This makes great use of iPhoto '09's Places feature.
It's $60 for a 2GB card, which is cheaper that most of the geotagging add-on hardware we listed a couple months back. If you pick one of these up, let us know how it goes.
Additionally, there's a Eye-Fi app for the iPhone [App Store link] that lets you send photos to your Mac or certain online services direct from your phone.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/29/2gb-eye-fi-geo-exclusive-to-apple-retail/
Re: Send Photo's directly from your camera to your Mac or the WWW! 2GB Eye-Fi Geo exclusive to Apple retail - mattkime - 07-29-2009
I have extensive experience with the Eye-Fi cards.
I believe the geotagging is based on wifi reception. If you're away from wifi, I'm not sure it can tell you where you are.
Re: Send Photo's directly from your camera to your Mac or the WWW! 2GB Eye-Fi Geo exclusive to Apple retail - Harbourmaster - 07-29-2009
Yes Matt that is correct. They use WiFi to triangulate your position.
Re: Send Photo's directly from your camera to your Mac or the WWW! 2GB Eye-Fi Geo exclusive to Apple retail - Lux Interior - 08-01-2009
Also, you must upload the photos wirelessly using the eye-fi manager for the geo-tag info to stick. If you put the eye-fi in a card reader & import to iPhoto, the geo-info is not transferred.