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“This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.”

I have wanted one of these for a while and thought I would have to wait until the holidays to get one, but fortunately social spark had an opportunity to take a look at the Eye-Fi card and I found it to be as much fun as I thought it would be.

If you are anything like me – you usually leave pictures on your camera for days if not weeks (for some it might be months) before you pull them off. Then you are searching for USB cables, or the battery goes flat on the camera 1/2 through the upload, or many other annoyances that photographers deal with when working with the camera and the computer you are using to manipulate and upload your pictures.

When you are setting this card up, the SD card comes with Software that interfaces with your computer, and provides a standard setup wizard for installing the system on your laptop. You will have to go through the setup process for the system to work. Once the software is installed, you have to make an account on the Eye-Fi web site which works with all the gear that you have. My experience with the setup was good, not great, because there are a lot of hoops to jump through. It would have been cooler to have the eye-fi site account made at the same time as the installation cycle when using the card for the first time.

Note to Mac Users – it works on my Apple too. You can get the card through the online Apple store right here.

Once all this is done you simply go snap your pictures, and everything happens automatically. What is interesting is the PC to Eye-Fi card and camera. It might look overly complex but it is not. The usability is good once everything is installed and running. Setup really only took about 20 minutes overall including installing on the PC, setting up the Eye-Fi account and working with the camera. This is a time saver for people, but you are really taking the raw file off the camera and uploading it directly to flickr. For folks who want to massage their pictures via Photoshop or other photo software, you do not have to enable automatic upload of your pictures to an external site.

Overall I had fun with this, but please see the disclaimers on the bottom of this entry, and you will want to check out the Eye-Fi web site to make sure this will work with your camera. I tried it on a Nikon D90, and overall pretty effortless in setup and use of the product. Once all is said and done, the Eye-Fi card is just like an SD card that you would use in your camera, which is what makes this sweet. Adds a whole new definition to point, shoot, and upload.

Eye-Fi has a simple video that you can watch to see how the system works. The video is interesting because it really covers how the card is used in a standard DSLR or other camera system.

Another good video to watch KSTU’s Fox 13 review of the 2 Gig Eye-Fi card. The video is not the best but gives a good perspective on what the reviewer had to do to get the product to work. They did note some issues with interoperability and processes, but overall they were also successful with the product.

And then there is the contest: I have the ability to give away an Eye-Fi card to people who tweet and/or respond to this post. This is the first time I have been able to give something away to one of my readers. There are 12 cards in total being given away so you stand a good chance of getting one if you follow the simple rules below (which is some interesting social media marketing and using twitter hash tags to raise awareness of a product). You will need to leave a message on this blog, or post a tweet using the hashtag #eye-fi, if you want to see the official contest rules please go to this link. Complete contest rules are here.

FCC Disclosure: I got an Eye-Fi card for free to test and use for this post.
Standard Disclosure: This is a sponsored post from Social Spark/Izea

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of EyeFi. All opinions are 100% mine.