Shooting tethered to an iPad?

[andrewr]

Anybody here shooting with a wi-fi card and an iPad as seen in this video? I don't always want to be leashed to a laptop when I'm shooting, and this would be a great way to have large previews to review.

http://fstoppers.com/ipad

Are the parts to do it available in Canada? The Eye-Fi SD cards are available at Vistek, but they don't seem to have an SD to CF card adapter.

http://vistek.ca/search/eye-fi.aspx

I did some searching on the web, but there seems to be lots of people who can't get it working, and having the right card and adapter seems critical.

Cheers,

Andrew

[Alastair]

I've heard the eye-fi cards are pretty hit and miss. I use Phocus with my Hasselblad tethered and then the images to go the iPad wirelessly. Of course, it would be more useful to me if I had an ipad... Capture 1 does it with CapturePilot, but you still have to be tethered. If you do get an eye-fi card by all means let us know how it works. They have been around for a while but I haven't heard much from them for quite a bit...

[Mvwphoto]

My second shooter on a wedding two weeks ao used an eye-fi. She gave it to me. I inserted into my imac's card reader. Bang. Kernel panic. The Mac shut down. Repeated, same result. Now when looked at on any computer, the card shows no images, all gone.

Losing wedding pics is more than enough for me go never want to be seen within a hundred miles of any eye-fi card.

[andrewr]

Originally Posted by Mvwphoto

My second shooter on a wedding two weeks ao used an eye-fi. She gave it to me. I inserted into my imac's card reader. Bang. Kernel panic. The Mac shut down. Repeated, same result. Now when looked at on any computer, the card shows no images, all gone.

Losing wedding pics is more than enough for me go never want to be seen within a hundred miles of any eye-fi card.

Yikes! That's definitely not good. I've been doing a bit more research about this and apparently Eye-Fi says their current cards are not compatible with any SD-CF adapters. So it's definitely not possible if your camera uses CF only.

I was really hoping there was a way to do this, and it would have been a good reason to buy an iPad. I've seen some of the apps that Alastair was talking about, but if you have to be tethered to a computer anyway, it sort of defeats the purpose. I want to find a way to travel lighter.

Cheers,

Andrew

[Alastair]

Michael - can you try to read it in any other devices? In the camera itself and then tethered to the computer via USB? Via some other Windows computer? Bummer about the images...

[andrewr]

If Apple would put a freakin' usb port on the iPad maybe an app like this would be available. Sometimes I hate Apple for making things so proprietary

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