Do you know what sucks?

Local Inspection Issues Florida and SUNachi Inspectors
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Doing 4 wind mits the furthest one 1 hour South of me then getting to the office and having your SD card crash. If you have a laptop with you I would upload all you photos to it before leaving the site.

3 weeks ago I had a CF card crash after a modeling shoot and today a SD card after my full day of work.

I take very good care of them but it seems that they do wear out.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgggggggggggggggggg :cry:

Just venting no help needed. If you have a camera that can save to 2 cards at once like my big camera I would definitely do it.

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If you had an Eye-Fi card (one was demonstrated and given away at the Florida Insurance Inspectors Chapter Meeting) this would had never happened. It send the pics to you computer as you shoot!

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You know I did think about that and I even thought I bet John has one. My laptop is old and slow as the power supply on my fast one is shot and next to impossible to get repaired so I have not tried one out yet.

What kind of range do you get. I would hate to carry my computer up into an attic. I would like one that sent them via cellular to email or something.

When it rains it pours.

4

I do have one and many times leave my computer in the truck and the pictures are sent via my phone wi-fi.

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Is your computer tethered to your phone? It looks like I could leave the computer in the truck on then when in it would upload right away?

I saw a I phone app but nothing for android.

It would be great if while on site the photos went from the camera thru the phone to a cloud somewhere.

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My Droid is a Hot spot and the computer and Eye-Fi are networked through it.

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so can it work and send the photos somewhere without the computer?

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I always upload and save em as soon as I get back in the truck. BTW, I heard a guy did like a week of reinspections without saving the pics and his kid erased them.

9

NO You need a puter, camera card and network.

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John thanks for all the advice.

Dennis I still don’t feel any better. :smiley:

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Android is far better than iphone in networking.
My EVO will power 8 devises by creating a hot spot with no wires.

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Do you have to pay extra to form the hot spot? To the service provider…

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Tell me more about the eye fi card. Is this a standards sd card?

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i found it by googling it all the info is right there. it seems pretty cool and not to expensive.

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Wow that bites, Thanks for the info on the cards crashing though. I never thought about it. the worst that ever happened to me is leaving a camera on the back of my truck after an inspection at the far north end of my inspection area.
good news is that I have a photographic memory, Bad news is it only holds 12 pictures.

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Yeah it surprised me as well 2 different cards in 1 month. I am starting to wonder if my computer did it to them. Sad thing is I do not remember which computer I tried to use when the first one crashed 3 weeks ago.

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I have been able to take a bad card to wal mart and it was able to read it. Then you pay for it to be put on a disc. It is still cheaper than going back and less embarrassing.

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what… at the little kiosk?

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Yes at the kiosk.

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Bought an Eye card yesterday, just so that I don’t have to mess with cables or remove the sd card from the camera any longer. It works great, a little slow even on my wireless network at home but I was very impressed. I guess I will now have to invest in a fancy phone with a high priced plan instead of straight talk with unlimited talk text and (very slow) web for $50 a month.