Comments on: [Gear] WIFI Enabled Cameras. How Will This Affect The Industry?

By: Coby

Coby — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:38:00 +0000

The problem I see with Pro-DSLR’s & wi-fi is the battery consumption of sending RAW files that big.

By: Ken Kotch

Ken Kotch — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:42:00 +0000

true, but I don’t want to pay the use fees for going over a few gigs.

By: Ken Kotch

Ken Kotch — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:40:00 +0000

We were talking about this last night at the Pats game. The technology to transmit small jpegs from the field has been here for a while. Building an infrastructure to support it is still a few years out.
It does seem pretty easy bring the wifi from the media room to the field.
Here’s hoping.

By: M Burke

M Burke — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Wouldn’t this require camera-specific drivers in the OS, like tethering does?

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Yeah it drive me crazy too. Eye-fi has been adamant that they will not make CF versions because they have said SD is the future. However with the new XQD showing up in the D4 it looks like they are going to miss another market much like they did with CF. At some point wifi or 3/4G will be built into the consumer market cameras and all that will be left is the pro market with their CF or XQD chips. Hopefully we will see some big announcements from Eye-fi soon!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:15:00 +0000

It’s getting closer – the new Nikon D4 has a small module with quite impressive features. Keeping it in a separate module, for now at least, does mean that the manufacturers can charge extra for it, but I imagine it won’t be too long before we start seeing WiFi included by default. And most high-end features usually work their way down the line.

As mentioned above, news reporters and editors will like it if it means they can send images off immediately. And it will be handy for event photographers.

I’m just wondering though how well it will work when you have a bank of photographers all with WiFi sharing the same small amount of airspace. Even a couple neighbours with WiFi in their houses can have issues with interference, so I hate to think what would happen if you have 20+ photographers packed in tightly all trying to use WiFi.

By: Michael Prizant

Michael Prizant — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:44:00 +0000

I think it’s ridiculous that Eye-Fi only makes their WiFi enabled cards in the SD format. They’re missing a huge population of pro photographers who would love to bypass the Nikon and Canon offerings that are super expensive and rarely work properly. Why isn’t this available in CF format???

Frustrating…

By: Gokhan Cukurova

Gokhan Cukurova — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:01:00 +0000

here is a much better concept by a Chicago Wedding Photographer
link to youTube vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CahyhaMSpTg&feature=colike

By: Justinflynn

Justinflynn — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:33:00 +0000

3g cameras will change things, not wifi

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:24:00 +0000

This could make any news photographer very happy :) not having to run with a laptop and start downloading, sending it on crappy wifi and all that. just shoot and know that your editor will get it