Toshiba FlashAir W 04 Card

[acmineiro]

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I got this card today and have been learning the ins and outs of the card. The card is suppose to collect imaging from your camera and the WIFi portion allows you to transfer the images from the camera to the MAC.

 

After many frustrating minutes trying to setup the card I finally was able to open the card thru wifi and cut and paste the images into another folder. on my Mac.

 

I Want to try to import the images directly from the wifi card to Lightroom. No matter what I did I could not get the Import to work. I kept getting permission disk size error.

 

Another problem I came upon is battery usage of the card. It use quite a bit of energy running the WiFi to keep connected. once the camera is off or sleep mode it won't waste energy on the WiFi.

 

Comments would be welcome.

 

 

 

Amando

[faxao]

My experience: I tried to use the Flashair in my M-P 240 but I gave up. Too complicated and cumbersome setup and too battery hungry for my taste. Will go back to traditional SD cards and download.

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[CharlesL]

I use the free Snowy program for transfers. http://emoacht.github.io/SnowyImageCopy/index.html You can specify which folder the transferred images go into, and doesn't Lightroom watch a certain folder for imports? But the program is probably for Windows only.

Sometimes the transfers take 15 seconds per image, sometimes a couple of minutes. If the card in the camera has many images, that seems to slow down the transfer, but I am not sure.

And sometimes the program makes the connection to the camera in a few seconds, but sometimes it takes ten tries to connect.

I still use this method as a background task once it gets started. Just don't like to take off the bottom plate of the camera, fiddle with the card, and put it all back.

[Peter Kilmister]

After hearing about all of the fiddling about and time taken to try to use WiFi SD cards, I think I'd prefer to remove the base plate (2 secs) remove the SD card (2 secs) and shove the SD card in my computer (4 secs). Download then takes about 15 secs for several DNG files.

 

All done in under 30 seconds and transferred directly into Lightroom. 

 

It is not difficult, saves time, and stops me from having to fork out more of my hard earned pension on gadgets that in 2 year's time will be waste products.

[acmineiro]

I agree with you Peter. The process is way too cumbersome to be practical I will be going back to the simple foolproof way. I had hoped someone may have a way to make all work .