Eye-Fi

There was an offer through Google and Picasa a while back for $50 for a 4GB Eye-Fi SD card for your digital camera and 200 Gigabytes of web storage capacity. Since I was already familiar with Picasa, and I was nearing the limit of my 1 GB of free storage, I decided to take them up on the offer.

For those of you out there that do not know what the Eye-Fi does, here is a brief summary:

After some initial setup, the 4GB Eye-Fi SD card becomes a wi-fi tether to your computer. When you put the card in to your camera and take photo's with it, as soon as you are within reach of your wi-fi or a predefined wi-fi hot spot, the card will begin to upload your photo's taken to your computer.

One thing I didn't realize about this offer is that the card supplied only works with JPG files; which is great for most of the point and shoot camera's out there, but not so great if most of the photo's you take are in a RAW format. Apparently Eye-Fi does make a card that works with RAW photo's, but that was not what was included in the offer.

That having been said, I do think that the Eye-Fi has a great product, and I have used it and it works; I just wish I had read a little deeper into the offer to begin with.

I added a link to my Picasa Web Album.