Eye-Fi YellowScreen cleaning image
I haven’t written much about the Eye-Fi card, mostly because all the basic things (geotagging, automatic uploads, etc.) have been covered ad nauseum. Today, though, I think I found the coolest use for the card, so far.
I inherited a great, albeit not well kept, DSLR a few days ago, and decided to give the ol’ blower a go and see if I could get the camera’s sensor clean. Well, previously this was quite the work…
- Create a cleanroom in my bathroom by running hot water and allow the steam to settle and take dust particles down.
- Prepare the workplace
- Take camera into cleaning mode
- Clean sensor
- Take camera out of cleaning mode
- Shoot some white
- Pop out the CF card
- Run to my computer
- Check the pictures for more dust flecks
- Memorize the location
- Bring card back
- Pop card in
- Back to step Three
Thanks to the Eye-Fi, I am saving on some of those steps. I just take my laptop into the clean room with me, and browse the folder on my desktop all Eye-Fi images are uploaded onto. The result is much less CF card hassle and a way for me to check up on specks without having to remove and re-insert the card.
This saved me a good 40 minutes today, cleaning that new/old camera. Hooray for cool gadgets. I enabled Flickr upload for a bit, here’s one of the images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jluster/2777086269/
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awesome idea, thanks for sharing!
Jonus,
Great idea! You can be sure that the Crew over here at Eye-Fi will be sharing this with others. Thanks.
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