Wireless Photos

Do your photos stay on your digital camera or computer without you having time to upload them all to share with your friends and family? I certainly have that problem. Is the following the answer?

Blog Photos Directly From Your Digital Camera with Eye-Fi

An intriguing piece of kit! I wonder how well it would work in practice?

Although I wanted to keep all of my photos on my website itself, I am now considering moving my day-to-day photos to a service such as Flickr or Picasa. I've used Flickr in the past but not Picasa. Which would you recommend? Or are there other services I should consider?

Comments

[Mark]

Seems like a gimmick to me. I can't see one case where it'd really be useful. Does anybody ever want to publish to the world *every* photo taken with their camera? After all, before publishing my photos on the web I have to seriously cut them down. And rather than have to choose them on the camera somehow it's surely easier just to whip the memory card out, bung it into the computer and manually copy them over, sort them/crop them and upload.

Dunno...not convinced, sorry ;-)

As for the services, I use mac.com myself but I've heard good things recently about zooomr - a smaller competitor to flickr which has recently located to Japan for its higher internet-access speeds believe it or not.

[Darren]

I'm not saying I'd like to upload every photo I take but it might be handy in some circumstances to upload straight from your camera.

In practice, though, you are probably right. If you are sending a 5MB JPEG wirelessly then you are going to have to wait a long while. Plus, like you say, a lot of images are edited manually before uploading.

I would like a faster system to process photos but a lot of it still involves manual work.