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Wireless Photo Uploads

Each day take photos and upload them to Buzznet and Flickr and my best shots go to Zooomr.

Typically I download my images from my camera, look through them for the best one of the day, do some editing: color correction, cropping, sharpening and then I upload the image to Buzznet first as my Photo-A-Day widget is through Buzznet. I then upload the image to Flickr because I participate in a Photo-A-Day Challenge. And I often take a bunch of photos that I would like to share with friends.

I first heard about the Eye-Fi Wireless SD card through Thomas Hawk’s Blog. I get some great info on upcoming photography products through that blog and I am a fan of Thomas Hawk’s work. Here is his post about the product announcement. Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: eyeFi Releases Their 2GB Wi-Fi SD Card for $100

I also heard about this again today from PhotoJojo. PhotoJojo is a great one for the everyday digital photographer. There are many little fun projects tutorials that you can do through the site.

So why will a Wi-Fi enabled SD card save me time?

First of all it can automatically upload my images directly to the photo hosting site of my choice. This happens when I am within a wi-fi network. There are many sites where the photos can be uploaded to automatically on the list so far.

They are Flickr, Picasa, Wal-Mart, Facebook, Gallery, Kodak Gallery, phanfare, photobucket, smugmug, Sharpcast, shutterfly, vox, snapfish, TypePad, dotphoto, Fotki and webshots. And many more will become available as Eye-Fi develops more interfaces.

By automatically being able to upload my images to Flickr I don’t have to sort through all of them and then upload. I can sort through the best ones on Flickr and decide which ones I want to make public. With the ability to do that via a batch function time is saved. Yes, you can make your automatically uploaded images go to Flickr as private so that if you take sometime that you would not want everyone in the world to see it isn’t automatically front page news. That is a very nice feature.

Of course you can avoid this all together by only allowing your photos to be uploaded to your computer wirelessly. That will certainly save me a step in my whole photo uploading process.

We just had a baby and I take photos of her each and every day now. But not all of them I want to share with the world. I want to share them with the grandparents and family. With this memory card I could take photos of the baby and they could automatically be uploaded to Kodak Gallery or Wal-Mart and my in-laws or my parents or any family member could print off photos, photo books and whatever they wanted all without me having to have sat at a computer and uploaded everything. That is more time that I can spend with baby Eva.

I think it would be very cool to set up a live slideshow like the folks from Photojojo did. That would be so much fun at a corporate retreat or teambuilding event, or any sort of gathering where there was wi-fi and fun people.

So what does a 2GB Wi-Fi enabled SD card go for. $100.00 is what will get you wirelessly uploading your images after a 5 minute setup. I would like to see if the uploads can be done simultaneously to multiple sites and if this is something that will slow down the record speed of the memory cards.

You can order this product from Amazon.com. It would go great with a new Canon camera.

Okay, now the only thing I need is a camera that automatically records GPS information to the camera and the 2GB Wi-Fi enabled SD card and I am good to go. automatic uploading and automatic Geotagging. Sweet.

But for now I think that I will continue to use my GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr and their software to geotag my images. Then I will continue to manually upload my images to Flickr. When the tech catches up to what I want to do then I will probably switch.

I do know however that there is a product already on the market what will do the automatic GEOtagging in camera. It is a Ricoh 500SE digital camera is GPS enabled with 8.0 megapixels and 3X optical zoom lens.

Did you notice the price $1399.00. That is outrageous.

Here is an inexpensive way to achieve the same thing but you have to to some manual work.

Get a Camera – A decent Canon 8MP for under $300.00. Get the 2GB Eye-Fi wireless SD memory card at $100.00 and get the GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr Pro BlueTooth edition for $114.00. Even with shipping you now have a set up for automatic geotagging of images, or wireless uploading of images and a 8MP camera all for under $500.00. Not a bad deal.

Dinner with Andy and Rondi

Last night Allison and I went to visit our friends Andy and Rondi at their new house. It’s a great ranch and they’ve already done so much work to it. Andy took us on the tour of the house which includes a great huge basement. I have basement envy at the moment. It’s much worse than the table envy that Andy has.

Speaking of the table that is where I am writing this post from, the new lift top table, (see yesterday’s Photo-A-Day.) because for some reason I cannot get onto Verizon this morning. I am going to check that soon because I have a feeling that because I called the other day to see if I could cancel my DSL service (so I could get on my family’s wireless network) they canceled the service even though I went back and forth with the guy about the $99.00 cancellation fee (I got into a year long contract before my dad got ComCast and we set up the wireless network. I was into the contract for 34 days, 4 days more than when I could have canceled for free.). So I don’t know what is wrong with Verizon but it would be my luck that they canceled it on me even though I told them not too.

Back to last night. Allison and I went to Andy and Rondi’s for dinner and games. Dinner was great with a salad with crasins, walnuts and feta, and mashed potatoes and BBQ chicken. Mr. Tubb’s BBQ sauce apparently is under pressure because it exploded on my hand when I opened it, but its tasty stuff because his life is in it. What a weird tagline for a BBQ sauce. When you are in the grocery store sometimes pick up some Mr. Tubb’s BBQ sauce and read it, but be careful contents are under pressure.

After dinner we played Catch Phrase or rather Smack it (what Allison calls it.). The guys won that one, and then we played Taboo, and the ladies were the winners there. We ended up talking to about 11:45 and then made our way home. We had a great night hanging out with Andy and Rondi and were the first people to see the fireplace get used in that house, ever. And it was just cool enough last night that a fire made things very toasty and cozy. Congratulations on the new house guys, we look forward to spending more time with you guys soon.

Got some pictures too. You see Andy reads the blog almost as often as I post so of course there are gonna be pictures.

Grilling like manly men.

The final scores of Taboo. Rondi said many times, that’s gonna be on the blog, and well this thing did make it onto the blog. 🙂