Comments on: Eye-Fi CompactFlash Adapters

By: Kesevashy

Kesevashy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:33:58 +0000

This particular wasn’t quite thoroughly clean.

By: y_nk

y_nk — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:55:35 +0000

Hello,

What kind of DSLR have you ? i just bought an x2 with an adapter, trying to figure out how it works with my fuji s5 but it seems not to work

any clue ?

By: Ziv

Ziv — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:05:24 +0000

Hi Paul,

Yes, unfortunately, all adapters behave the same. Some are worse. They’re all using the same controller, and we’ve found corruption issues with Eye-Fi Cards and other cards. I understand that the D3 has 2 slots, but other cameras don’t. Canon pro DSLR’s have SD and CF slots, and the Pro card should be used in the SD slot. Even in older Canon gear that originally came out, only supporting SD, Canon released firmware upgrades to enable SDHC. I realize that Nikon DSLR’s in the pro range are all CF (I’m a huge Nikon fan)

I wish I had better news for you, but unless something changes on the adapter’s controller side, or until Eye-Fi will come out with a CF solution (no promises), CF is unsupported.

By: Paul Nolan

Paul Nolan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:35:49 +0000

Hi Ziv! Can you provide more details? Is it all adapters in all cameras, or certain circumstances that cause problems, and how frequently? The main cameras of interest would be the Canon 5D/5D Mark II, and Nikon D300/D3. The D3 can be set to backup images to two cards at once, which should at least eliminate the chance of losing images if a problem does occur.

By: Ziv

Ziv — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:59:53 +0000

Paul,

Great write-up about the CF adapters. But the problem is — reduced range is the least of your worries. The CF adapters cause file corruption, among other things. So not only do we not support them, we highly recommend against using them. Sorry