Eye-Fi with 1D Mark IV ???

canonnoob wrote in post #10001136
How do you get your photos onto your computer? Let me ask you that?

Well, you're claiming that you transfer 56 RAW files per second completely from your card onto your laptop. My D60 has raw files that are about 6 MB each; that'd be 330 MB/sec transfer rate at your quoted 560 files in 10 sec. And that's a 6 MP camera, not the 10 MP 40D or 1D3 with their average 12 MB RAW files, let alone the 16 MP 1D4. Or does PhotoMechanic just give you previews off the card, leaving you still needing to transfer the files to the computer, in that 10 sec?

A point to note about the EyeFi - if you're shooting in an area where you have WiFi, the file transfer is going on the whole time you're shooting - it doesn't wait for you to stop, take the card out of the camera, walk it over to the computer, insert it into the card reader and start the transfer process. By the time you get to the computer, if you've been using an EyeFi, at least the first photos will be up ready to view.

Jon wrote in post #10001265
Well, you're claiming that you transfer 56 RAW files per second completely from your card onto your laptop. My D60 has raw files that are about 6 MB each; that'd be 330 MB/sec transfer rate at your quoted 560 files in 10 sec. And that's a 6 MP camera, not the 10 MP 40D or 1D3 with their average 12 MB RAW files, let alone the 16 MP 1D4. Or does PhotoMechanic just give you previews off the card, leaving you still needing to transfer the files to the computer, in that 10 sec?

A point to note about the EyeFi - if you're shooting in an area where you have WiFi, the file transfer is going on the whole time you're shooting - it doesn't wait for you to stop, take the card out of the camera, walk it over to the computer, insert it into the card reader and start the transfer process. By the time you get to the computer, if you've been using an EyeFi, at least the first photos will be up ready to view.

to get the photos off of my card onto my computer into a new folder - it takes roughly 10 seconds, Through photo mechanic I can browse that folder with or without ingesting the folder. If I ingest it takes that folder and breaks it down into another folder.simply stated It depends on your workflow.

OT- photo mechanic allows you to view your files much faster than lightroom does. Hence why I switched.

For it to actually move those bits onto your computer's drive in that 10 sec., I have to assume that you have Extreme Pro-class cards, an eSATA card reader and a SSD to move the photos to. Seagate's Barracuda 7200 rpm drives claim a sustained throughput of 160 MB/sec. That's about 1/4 of what you'd need to move that much data onto your hard drive in the time you claim, so you'd need to be using them in RAID striped, with at least 5 drives installed to handle the throughput you're claiming. Or else you're confusing the time it takes to display thumbnails with the time needed to move the files to where you can actually work with them.

canonnoob wrote in post #10001429
to get the photos off of my card onto my computer into a new folder - it takes roughly 10 seconds,

Well first off, what type of card are you using? Secondly what type of reader are you using? I'm sure you can appreciate the numbers you are claiming are beyond amazing. Not trying to be a jerk, but if there is actually someway to get that many RAW files off a CF card in 10 seconds as you claim then I want to know how!

Troy

I would like to know as well. what equipment are you using/ computer setup?

Word to wondering how to get bandwith like that from a card reader. Let us in on the secret. I promise I won't tell anyone

canonnoob wrote in post #9987125
just so you know... 75 GBP is 115.26 USD.

It takes me exactly 10 seconds to load 560 RAW files onto my laptop VIA an external card reader, and open photo Mechanic to view the files.. No loading what so ever. The Eye-fi system does not compare with that.

impossible

Would probably take 5 seconds to just open PM and click on the folder to view them, which leaves 5 seconds to upload the images.

I assume you have a solid state drive, as this would speed it up, but an external card reader would be via USB? So this would slow it down.

I think you mean minutes not seconds

wow I really caused a stir huh? lol.. well I guess I succeeded. Being truthful- it takes me about 1.5 minutes for a full 4gb card onto my computer. That is legit. But that is still better than the eye-fi.

Lame...

canonnoob wrote in post #10006801
wow I really caused a stir huh? lol.. well I guess I succeeded. Being truthful- it takes me about 1.5 minutes for a full 4gb card onto my computer. That is legit. But that is still better than the eye-fi.

Only if you disregard that the WiFi begins transfer immediately you take the first photo if there's a WiFi network available, while you can't start moving files off the card until you've taken it out of the camera and inserted it into the reader.

And congratulations - after that smart-alec move your credibility around here is now zero and falling. You're going to have to work some to recover to "remotely possible that if 600 other people agree with him, it might be true".

some people live up to their usernames

isdoo wrote in post #10011140
some people live up to their usernames

Careful what you say lest someone out there comes back with a wisecrack remark about your username as well.

using extreme IV here, which dumps via a card reader onto a stripe raid SSD drive... that hits the roof of the card way before the drives get pushed. Even the pro sandisks would max out before the drives did. Depending on what it is, it will clock over 100, sometimes 150mB/s. Not bad for a laptop.

Scuff wrote in post #9985625
I dont have a Mk4 but I use the Eye-Fi pro 4gb on my 1Ds2 1D3 and G10.

Geotagging isnt really of interest to me so I won't comment on that. I mainly use it for ad-hoc or wifi connection to my laptop when in the studio or at a function.

Whilst the downloads are fast enough with small jpegs, the Raw files take a little longer, but it is worth the wait.

It is great to have the files ready for examination or editing in lightrrom within seconds. The customer loves to see the images straight away and can place orders there and then.

It also save quite a lot of money not having to purchase 2 Canon WiFi transmitters

For me it is great value and a great timesaver...

Do you use your WiFi Pro using a wireless LAN router, or is it wireless ad hoc connection to a laptop? If the latter, what O/S is the laptop running?

I was able to connect through a wireless router, but unable to establish an ad hoc wireless connection to my Windows XP laptop.

Wilt wrote in post #10212063
Do you use your WiFi Pro using a wireless LAN router, or is it wireless ad hoc connection to a laptop? If the latter, what O/S is the laptop running?

I was able to connect through a wireless router, but unable to establish an ad hoc wireless connection to my Windows XP laptop.

Hi Wilt

I normally run it through my wifi networks, but if I am out of range of any wifi networks, I run an AdHoc connection to my laptop, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.