Comments on: Wireless Photography: Freedom or Paranoia?

By: Geoff Sowrey

Geoff Sowrey — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:23:44 +0000

Dave — that’s part of the “advantage” with the Eye-Fi system. You do have the ability to recall pictures if you’re on your toes. (Example: I recently took a number of pictures as part of our Tech Summit in Chicago, which Eye-Fi automatically uploaded. But I intercepted and removed them from public view.)

Katie — it’s still a memory card, and still stores the image. When you’re back within range, turn the camera on and it uploads what’s not already there.

Igonzales — My apologies if I gave the impression that the software was on the Eye-Fi card itself. You are very correct, the actual software is on the card reader.

By: lgonzales

lgonzales — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:17:23 +0000

Geoff,

The Eye-Fi Card reader is really just an ordinary card reader. There is no special memory on it specific to Eye-Fi.

The Eye-Fi Manger installation software is actually included on the Eye-Fi Card itself, it automatically launches the first time you insert the card via the Eye-Fi Card reader or any other SD card reader.

By: Katie Bogda

Katie Bogda — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:36:11 +0000

Wow! This sounds amazing. I have a question though… if you are not within any wireless range, what happens to your picture? Will it be saved so that you can manually upload it later? You mentioned the memory so I’m assuming it saves all pic files as you go…

Thanks for sharing this fun find:)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:31:53 +0000

As an avid photog myself I can see the potential benefits, however as a paranoid (a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.) this leaves the user open to HUGE risk.

As things move faster and faster with technology we leave ourselves open to the chance of letting information go that we wish we hadn’t. “Reply all” anyone? Once you release a photo into the interweb, that’s it, you won’t ever get it back.