We Depend On Video Cards, And They Betray Us 9/10/12
A couple of years ago we started to use eye-fi video cards. The advantage was that they were supposed to communicate with the internet directly, and you didn’t have to download their content. But this summer when we took a 76-day trip across the country, across the ocean, and to Europe, we found out how treacherous they were. When we were almost back my Leica camera broke. I switched cameras to Lumix and inserted an eye-fi card. By the next day, it wouldn’t take any more pictures. Worse, the ones we hadn’t already downloaded disappeared. I lost valuable video from the night of August 27, the night before the last night of the trip, that I now have to try to reconstruct.
A couple of years ago we started to use eye-fi video cards. The advantage was that they were supposed to communicate with the internet directly, and you didn’t have to download their content. But this summer when we took a 76-day trip across the country, across the ocean, and to Europe, we found out how treacherous they were. When we were almost back my Leica camera broke. I switched cameras to Lumix and inserted an eye-fi card. By the next day, it wouldn’t take any more pictures. Worse, the ones we hadn’t already downloaded disappeared. I lost valuable video from the night of August 27, the night before the last night of the trip, that I now have to try to reconstruct.