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Re: Wireless LAN SD

#21

Post by reaperducer »

Fwirt wrote: post #4

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and simple developing within seconds. I know there are cameras with built-in WiFi that do this but camera manufacturers seem to let their software become outdated quickly.

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing.

Apple makes (made?) an SD Card to lightning dongle. It's a wonderful thing on vacations.

I can take the SD Card from my Hasselblad and plug it into my iPhone. I then delete photos and videos I don't want, upload the keepers to iCloud as a backup, and AirDrop pictures to my wife so she can send them to her friends.

iOS has no problem with most current raw formats, and you can even convert them to JPEGs right in the phone.

You can also import the raw images and do basic editing of the photos with the Photos app.

The only problem I've run into is with long videos sometimes being laggy. But that might be an issue with a slow card, or moving data over a Lightning interface.

Re: Wireless LAN SD

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Post by GlumWoodpecker »

I own a Ben NanoNote, at this point an ancient (2010) open-source, niche micro-laptop that ran a modification of OpenWrt. With a tiny keyboard and screen and all. It had no built-in anything, so the only way to get wireless connectivity on it was to buy one of these SDIO WLAN adapters. Had a lot of fun tinkering with that thing, maybe I should find it again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote

Re: Wireless LAN SD

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Post by Computer0 »

cyberax wrote: post #17
Fwirt wrote: post #4

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and simple developing within seconds. I know there are cameras with built-in WiFi that do this but camera manufacturers seem to let their software become outdated quickly.

The WiFi in cameras is definitively in the "do not use" category. It's usually some kind of flaky, broken, and/or slow. I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and time sync. It would immediately solve all the connectivity issues.

When is the last time you purchased a camera and how much did you spend? I am happy with the wireless performance of my Sony A7 SIII. I kind of splurged on it as my once in every 2 decades camera so I don't have anything to compare to besides connectivity first cameras (Drone).

Re: Wireless LAN SD

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Post by cyberax »

Computer0 wrote: post #25
cyberax wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The WiFi in cameras is definitively in the "do not use" category. It's usually some kind of flaky, broken, and/or slow. I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and time sync. It would immediately solve all the connectivity issues.

When is the last time you purchased a camera and how much did you spend? I am happy with the wireless performance of my Sony A7 SIII. I kind of splurged on it as my once in every 2 decades camera so I don't have anything to compare to besides connectivity first cameras (Drone).

I have a Sony A7 from 2019. I also tried a couple of other newer cameras from Nikon and one from Fujitsu.

Re: Wireless LAN SD

#28

Post by giobox »

reaperducer wrote: post #21
Fwirt wrote: post #4

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and simple developing within seconds. I know there are cameras with built-in WiFi that do this but camera manufacturers seem to let their software become outdated quickly.

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. Apple makes (made?) an SD Card to lightning dongle. It's a wonderful thing on vacations. I can take the SD Card from my Hasselblad and plug it into my iPhone. I then delete photos and videos I don't want, upload the keepers to iCloud as a backup, and…

Since the dawn of USB-C iOS devices (iPhone 15 onwards), you can plug any old usb card reader into an iPhone or iPad without an adapter and it works.

Re: Wireless LAN SD

#29

Post by tegiddrone »

Speaking of interesting SD card features-- it would be nice to have a way to have the sd card expire. Like if it doesn't get voltage for a duration of time: it self erases.

Re: Wireless LAN SD

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Post by joezydeco »

duskwuff wrote: post #15
gregsadetsky wrote: post #2

I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, but actually streamed your data? But I remember that they existed? But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers? In a sense, I find it…

You're correct on both points. Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone. There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux, which emulated an SD storage card and exposed its contents over wireless. The latter are what that article was about.

I'm currently using an Ezurio WiFi/Bluetooth module in a project and it still uses SDIO to communicate with the host. Only difference is that it's a much smaller module welded down to the PCB.

The dev kit, however, still has the traditional interface.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/ezurio/453-00045-...

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