I came across the work of photographer Justin Korn back in 2008 and love his work. The image of a San Francisco street car really caught my eye for being sensationally creative. Click on the image to check out his other brilliant work.
I’ve been hearing about a wireless memory card for cameras that allows users to upload their photos to their computer automatically. There is very little competition this type of item so it took no time at all to identify their name and website; the company is called Eye-Fi and they are located conveniently nearby in Mountain View, CA.
Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Card
Since up until recently my camera used only CF cards and the Eye-Fi card is built on the smaller SD format, I was out of luck for my own use so I got one for my father-in-law. Seems he would shoot and shoot his digital camera but never knew what to do with the photos so they would just stay on his camera indefinitely until I came over to take them off and burn them to CD which he would then take to Walgreens or Costco.
The benefit to the Eye-Fi card is that the photos are sent wirelessly to your computer automatically once the camera is in range of the wireless network. Eye-Fi also has versions that send the photos also to one of many online photo-sharing/printing sites such as Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, Costco etc. In his case, we used his Costco account because he frequents their store anyway and he can just pick up his prints while he’s there.
I finally had a chance to get my hands on a new camera and my very own Eye-Fi card and will discuss my experiences in the next few posts. In the mean time, check out the following video which explains how Eye-Fi works and a new video upload feature they just launched.
P.S. Special thanks to a reader @Scrambler99 who pointed out that the post would be more helpful if I had mentioned the price. Generally speaking, the most basic model that uploads photos only to your computer runs about $80.00. Prices go up from there to about $130.00 for the model I purchased which includes the geo-tagging service that I will discuss later.
