Wireless CF cards?

[ridetwistyroads]

Has anyone used them? And brand's differ significantly? How do they work? Can I go direct to my laptop's wireless G card? Do they "Buffer" shots and transfer many all at once, or is it shoot-transfer shoot-transfer, or is it programmable?

Advice, expiriance, so on, so forth! My D70 is wanting one bad, and friend's D100 has begun to jones for one too......

THANKS!

[Aaron Wilson]

were can you even buy them? I have not see one yet... I want one for my 20D as well.. Same question.

[John Mueller]

Has anyone used them? And brand's differ significantly? How do they work? Can I go direct to my laptop's wireless G card? Do they "Buffer" shots and transfer many all at once, or is it shoot-transfer shoot-transfer, or is it programmable?

Advice, expiriance, so on, so forth! My D70 is wanting one bad, and friend's D100 has begun to jones for one too......

THANKS!
It is very bad when my camera jones for something.Means more moneyhttp://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/icon10.gif
This is interesting and I too have not heard of this.
Can you share more info?

[ridetwistyroads]

I've searched for them on B+H and not found them, these guys have them (http://www.tweeter.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1889307), which is good, but I don't know enough about these things yet.

What I WANT to have happen is I shoot, and then the pictures are zapped to my laptop wirelessly. I don't even know if this is what's supposed to happen with this particular card.

So, :scratch?

OH GREAT GURU'S, CAN THIS BE DONE? :ear

[Tim Kirkwood]

From my perspective this is for palm pilots and such. Gives you the memory space for additional apps and the wi fi for internet connection to your local lan and also wireless hotsync to your local machine. I am not sure that the camera would have the knowledge to know what to do with it. I would think the camera would only see the 128mb storage.


Just my.02

Tim

[John Mueller]

From my perspective this is for palm pilots and such. Gives you the memory space for additional apps and the wi fi for internet connection to your local lan and also wireless hotsync to your local machine. I am not sure that the camera would have the knowledge to know what to do with it. I would think the camera would only see the 128mb storage.


Just my.02

Tim
Tim,that makes sense.
It would be cool if you do the other.

[luckyrwe]

The camera expects to send the data to memory, not transmit. Nikon has wireless transmitters ansd Canon is coming out with them very soon, and they will send to your laptop. I had this setup with my old D2H. The images would FTP to my laptop, then I had the laptop on the Internet via my phone and the Windows AT command would upload the images in that directory every 60 seconds. So basically right after I took a picture it was on the Internet a minute later. Sure is nice when folks threaten to grab your film.

Back to the topic...the wireless card needs an IP address to send to, and these settings need to be configured somewhere, usually in the camera. SO I do not think this will replace all our memory cards any time soon.

[ian408]

Depends what you're trying to do.

If you want to upload to a server someplace, you will need to be within
range of a wireless access point. Canon's wireless is essentially an FTP
client that uploads data to a server running on your laptop.

You'll need to be within a couple of hundred feet of the server for the
Canon WFT-E1 to work correctly. There's an extended range antenna that
should get you to 500ft. Otherwise, camera wireless (as Canon have
implemented it) works like any other 802.11(g) device would.

Setting it up should easy enough if you are familiar with basic network
concepts.

The WFT-E1 works with the 1DSMkII, 1DMkII and the 20D. It's form factor
is a small rectangle that mounts under the camera body.

Ian

[luckyrwe]

Even though they recommend you being within a hundred feet or so, the world record for wireless 802.11b communication, unamplified, is 58.1 miles, set last year at Defcon in Las Vegas, Nevada in July. The antenna was enormous, but the power was the standard. I bet with the right antenna you can really have fun.

It may be a good idea to run WEP as well, so that no one else sniffs your photos right out of the air.

[ian408]

It may be a good idea to run WEP as well, so that no one else sniffs your photos right out of the air.
I don't know about that. Read (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111-page2.php)this article first. Maybe pick WPA as alternative :D

Ian

[ridetwistyroads]

Good info all, thanks for setting me straight.

[Stan]

Just as an observation, the card looks too big to fit in the camera with the door closed, so the camera will not switch on :dunno

[ian408]

Just as an observation, the card looks too big to fit in the camera with the door closed, so the camera will not switch on :dunno
If you use the CF wireless card, yes. But the Canon wireless bolts on the
bottom of the camera.

Ian

[luckyrwe]

The Canon wioreless product also connects via USB. The camera needs MEMORY to hold the image before transferring, so the CF card MUST be there. You cannot get away with replacing it with a wireless card. The wireless card needs an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway to which to send the pictures. Think about it...if you add a wireless card, how is it going to know where to send the images you shoot? You need memory in your PC, you cannot add a wireless card in its place.

[ridetwistyroads]

The Canon wioreless product also connects via USB. The camera needs MEMORY to hold the image before transferring, so the CF card MUST be there. You cannot get away with replacing it with a wireless card. The wireless card needs an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway to which to send the pictures. Think about it...if you add a wireless card, how is it going to know where to send the images you shoot? You need memory in your PC, you cannot add a wireless card in its place.
***hand raised*** :D

So teach, can my D70 do that right now? Can I connect via usb and shoot directly to my laptop that way? There seems to be a menu option that says "usb: mass storage/ptp or something like that. Can I use that to connect them by usb and transfer as I go?

[ian408]

The wireless card needs an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway to which to send the pictures. Think about it...if you add a wireless card, how is it going to know where to send the images you shoot? You need memory in your PC, you cannot add a wireless card in its place.
He's going to use his laptop (that part is in the original message)
and run an FTP server on it. He can run the wireless card in had-hoc or
infrastructure mode.

Of course there'll be some setup. But it's not difficult and there are two
large chunks of non publically routeable address space to choose from.

Erik, I think you can shoot tethered (USB cable between the camera
and laptop).

Ian

Ian

[luckyrwe]

I do not now if the D70 has a similar attachment, I doubt it though. The camera has to have a menu into which to put the IP address it will use.