The Eye-Fi Pro is an SD memory card with included Wi-Fi for digital cameras. The card offer photographers the selection of transmitting images with no cables or else card readers to a PC or to an online photo sharing Web site.

That's always been the spirit of Eye-Fi products, but the latest Pro model builds ahead that foundation with added features. A few of the features are set up on additional Eye-Fi cards, for example lifetime geotagging service, video uploading, with 4GBs of media storage. What Pro users acquire that others do not is the capability to mail Raw files to their PC as well as to make an ad hoc network that doesn't need the Internet for file transmit.

The former thing I experienced with the Eye-Fi Pro was the geotagging performance at a range of locations all through Northern California, with the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, with casual spots around Santa Rosa. The Eye-Fi card records the router address next to where you take your shots. When you transmit the images to your PC and make use of the Eye-Fi Manager application, the place of those addresses is being highlighted on top, as well as the resultant geotags are added to the images. If there is no registered Wi-Fi hotspots close by when you take a photo, no router address is recorded, so no geotags are inserted to your pictures. Geotagging works only when you wirelessly move the pictures. If you slot in the Eye-Fi Pro in a card reader and after that drag copy the pictures, they will not include geotags details.

I found that the results were logically correct taking into account that Eye-Fi makes use of registered Wi-Fi hotspots for its place information, not GPS. In general, I was overwhelmed with the results.

When it's time to transmit your pictures to your PC, you can now control which images are uploaded by means of the Protect key on your camera attached with setting a preference in the Eye-Fi Manager application. Obtainable users of additional Eye-Fi cards should note down that this aspect is obtainable for older cards through a firmware update. This is a much-requested development giving photographer’s improved control over the uploading procedure.

If you get benefit of the latest Raw file transfer for the Pro card, the capability to choose which files to transmit is totally essential. Raw file sizes run about 12MB with my Canon PowerShot G9, along with wireless transfer for the raw files took at least 2 minutes each, now and then much longer. You have to select your files cautiously so you don't use up your camera battery without need uploading huge Raws. Also note down that Raw transfer only works to your PC, not to online services.

The workflow I favor when using the Eye-Fi Pro is to shoot Raw+JPEG. I have the chosen JPEGs directly uploaded from the camera to an online service for example Flickr or else SmugMug (you must have a Wi-Fi access). Later on, I transfer the Raw files by card reader. This agrees me to distribute photos right away lacking receiving bogged down in a long transfer process.