For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

[P. J. Alling]

What you need and what's fun are two different things...

Tom C wrote:
> I only need to be called a dumb *** once Bob, OK? :-)
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>> From: "Bob Blakely" <Bob at Blakely.com>
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>> Subject: Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities
>> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:02:55 -0700
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>> The WIFI is built into the card. Tnat's why (according to the article) the
>> CAMERA with eye-fi card has to be near a WIFI access point!
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom C" <cakaltm at hotmail.com>
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>>> ACTUALLY... after reading Thib's last post and link regarding eye-fi, I
>>> have
>>> to say that I can see Brendans's point.  I had foolishly thought they 
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>> had
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>>> the wifi built into the SD card itself (silly me, that was a stupid
>>> assumtion if I ever made one, embarrassing actually).
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>>> If one has to stop shooting and take the card out of the camera, and put
>>> it
>>> in a reader, then I don't find it nearly as attractive. Yes I can see 
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>> that
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>>> it only takes 10 seconds to put the card in a reader and put a new one 
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>>> the camera.
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>>> Here I thought it allowed transfer simultaneously from within the camera
>>> while continuing to shoot. Still useful but not near as whiz-bang as I
>>> thought.
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>>> What would be nice is the *option* to shoot non-stop and have the camera
>>> (if
>>> you have this much trust in technology) delete images as they are
>>> sucessfully transferred so that one has a 'never full' memory card. That
>>> would require the camera to be smart enough to receive a returned
>>> sucessful/fail status from the network or receiving PC.
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