Frank Petronio
Well-known
Has anyone tried this yet? Any cautions or advice? How is the battery life?
coelacanth
Ride, dive, shoot.
I'm using the new Mobi card with the GR and love it.
Note: GR and/or Modi card has a bug that prevents selective upload, and I've read somewhere that the companies are working to solve it with firmware updates. I believe the older X2 cards don't have that problem.
I just leave the Eye-Fi on all time, and my Android phone (Nexus 4 running 4.3) will detect the Eye-Fi (even if the phone is in a normal wifi network currently), start importing the images as I shoot while the phone is in my pocket with screen off. I shoot RAW+Jpeg, and treating the RAW as "digital negatives" that I backup to my computer once in a while. I like the workflow a lot as I can use the GR as an extenuation of my phone.
I charge the GR from USB port casually and regularly (guess I'm in a minority of people actually preferring USB charging over having dedicated charger) so I don't have any problem with the battery life using Eye-Fi always active, but your millage may vary.
Note: GR and/or Modi card has a bug that prevents selective upload, and I've read somewhere that the companies are working to solve it with firmware updates. I believe the older X2 cards don't have that problem.
I just leave the Eye-Fi on all time, and my Android phone (Nexus 4 running 4.3) will detect the Eye-Fi (even if the phone is in a normal wifi network currently), start importing the images as I shoot while the phone is in my pocket with screen off. I shoot RAW+Jpeg, and treating the RAW as "digital negatives" that I backup to my computer once in a while. I like the workflow a lot as I can use the GR as an extenuation of my phone.
I charge the GR from USB port casually and regularly (guess I'm in a minority of people actually preferring USB charging over having dedicated charger) so I don't have any problem with the battery life using Eye-Fi always active, but your millage may vary.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
A original Ricoh GR Digital, I assume? I doubt it. The (younger) GX100 seems to be unable to supply enough power for my older Eye-Fi Pro cards (unless their failure is due to the braindead software of the latter). The Transcend WifiSD card does work, though - but going by its load on my batteries it seems to be lower power, and at least in webserver mode it is entirely camera agnostic. As my Eye-Fi cards already are SDHC, younger than the plain SD Eye-Fi cards you'd need for the GR, chances are that the latter are a even harder load on the power supply. That said, 2GB and smaller Eye-Fi cards are a rare sight on ebay, but tend to be very cheap whenever they turn up, so it might be worth while an attempt if an opportunity arises...