![]() ![]() ![]() The first image took a couple of minutes, but after that, it took just a few seconds after each shot to appear in the browser.Īs I said, JPG is useless to me beyond sending them over to the iPad, so it looks like I’ll be picking up the Eye-Fi Pro X2 at some point (which offers RAW transfer), where I’ll go through the whole setup process here on the blog. ![]() It took a little figuring out to set it up, but once on the CubieTruck, as long as I don’t have the Eye-Fi software running on my iPad, a few test shots on the camera sent straight over to the CubieTruck after a little initial negotiation. I can do this with the Nikon D200 & WT-3 grip (via FTP), but not with the Eye-Fi card, as they don’t offer any Linux support at all. I can just see it and fix on set before taking another shot.Īs I’m planning to turn the CubieTruck into a portable backup storage device for use on location, I thought “What if I could transmit via WiFi to the Cubie (or Raspberry Pi) instead of the iPad?”Īt the moment, there’s not much point, as the SanDisk Eye-Fi card only allows the transfer of JPG files, and b acking those up is useless to me, as JPGs get deleted at the end of the session anyway. I can get a better overall view of the scene on the iPad so I don’t have to spend hours fixing something in Photoshop that I missed on the tiny LCD on the back of the camera. I can immediately see which images have hit their focus and are nice and sharp without unwanted motion blur. My current WiFi situation on Location works for me at the moment.Īs I shoot, a couple of seconds after hitting the shutter, the images come up on my iPad screen. ![]()
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