Eye-Fi Card Setup
Overview
Nikon DSLR (D90) + Eye-Fi 8Gb X2 + laptop + Linksys WRE54G wireless repeater + Adobe Lightroom import
The Eye-Fi card is supposed to enable wireless transfers of photos from the DSLR to a computer.
The catch is that it only works if there is a very strong signal between both the Eye-Fi card (while it’s in the camera’s SD slot) and the wireless router, and a strong signal between the wireless router and the Eye-Fi receiver that gets plugged into the computer’s USB slot. They all have to be in the same room, basically.
Eye-Fi Setup
- Put the SD card in the receiver and plug them both into the laptop’s USB.
- Start the “Eye-Fi Center” software.
- File > Settings > Eye-Fi Card
- “Networks” tab
- Private Networks tab > select the appropriate router. It will try to connect and give a message indicating whether it was successful or not.
- “Raw” tab > Select destination folder for photos.
- Note: It seems like they have frequent firmware updates for the cards. The settings, esp “network”, don’t take unless the firmware gets installed. Keep an eye out when starting up.
- Close the Settings dialog.
- Eject the Eye-Fi card using the eject icon, and remove the Eye-Fi card from the receiver.
- With the camera powered off, insert it in the DSLR’s SD slot.
- Now when you shoot you should see the images should (slowly) import into the Eye-Fi center on the laptop.
Camera Setup
- Make sure that the camera is powered off when inserting the card.
- Make sure not to power off the camera before the transfer of the latest photo(s) has completed.
- Make sure that the camera doesn’t go into power-saving mode before photo transfers complete.
- D90 Custom Setting Menu
- c2: Auto meter-off delay: 10 minutes (or whatever it takes)
Importing Photos into Adobe Lightroom
- Eye-Fi support page for this topic
- Use date-based subfolders for the Eye-Fi import & take at least one exposure to force Eye-Fi center to create a subfolder for the current session.
- You have to then delete the existing photo before making the directory into a watched folder in Lightroom.
- Lightroom: File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings
- Choose the Eye-Fi import folder
- Select another folder where Lightroom will copy the photos
- Lightroom: File > Auto Import > Enable Auto Import