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New Nikon D90 Features Better Eye-Fi Connected Features

Posted 08/28/08 at 09:28:52 PM |  by Mark Edward Soper

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Nikon D90 adds improved support for Eye-Fi wireless SD cards

Eye-Fi, whose line of Wi-Fi-enabled SD cards caught our attention earlier this year, is back in the news: the new Nikon D90 DSLR joins its stablemate, the D60, as the second Eye-Fi-enabled camera.

What's New in the D90?

The D90, which makes its formal bow at Germany's Photokina trade show in late September, adds the ability to temporarily disable Eye-Fi transfer functions through the camera menu; a useful feature in hospitals, airplanes, or anywhere else where you want to prevent images from flying through the ether.

The D90 also features a 12.3MP image sensor, an optional geo-tagging module, Live View, face priority AF, and a 24-fps 720p movie mode, the first movie mode in any DSLR.

Other News from Eye-Fi

Users of any Eye-Fi Share or Eye-Fi card in any camera can also enjoy free geotagging and hotspot access by joining the photo-sharing site SmugMug, in a deal announced earlier this month.

How about it, DSLR fans? Does improved Eye-Fi support make you more likely to preorder a D90? Click the comment button and tell us what you think.

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avatarSeems a bit silly

Submitted by musicman172001 on Thu, 2008-08-28 22:36

I understand why some would want Wi-Fi enabled SD cards but I just don't understand why anyone would actually want to use it. In my case if I have my laptop available to upload the pictures to than I'd rather save the camera's battery and take the few extra seconds to just plug the card into my memory reader. Maybe I'm missing some other catchy feature that comes along with Eye-Fi that would make it more worth it.

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avatarEye-Fi can bypass your PC...

Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Fri, 2008-08-29 09:01

...and send pix directly to Flickr or other photo-sharing sites. You can control when this happens as well (for example, if you want to perform some photo-editing first). See http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?t=120 for details.

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It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be.

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avatarPC Functionality

Submitted by Techrocket9 on Thu, 2008-08-28 21:50

What I really want to know about the eye-fi is if you can put it in a laptop that has an SD slot and use it as a normal Wi-Fi card.

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avatarPC Functionality of Eye-Fi Card

Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Fri, 2008-08-29 08:57

The Eye-Fi card isn't designed to transfer anything but the pictures it stores. See http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?t=222 for details.

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