Carl Conrad » digital cameras http://www.carlconrad.net/en Marketing, technology, my views and thoughts on today's digital world Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:43:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eye-Fi adds and automates geotagging of photos http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/eye-fi-adds-geotagging-of-photos/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/eye-fi-adds-geotagging-of-photos/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 23:15:58 +0000 Carl http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=26 Following the introduction of the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi card for digital cameras (see PMA08: digital cameras connect to photo sharing), Eye-Fi announces today Eye-Fi Explore including a Wi-Fi based geolocalization of photos thanks to a partnership with Skyhook Wireless.

The card uses built-in wireless technology to locate nearby Wi-Fi access points when pictures are captured within the Skyhook coverage area. The Eye-Fi service uses this information to encode each photo with geographic locations, and the images arrive on the user’s computer and online sharing account automatically tagged.

In North America, Skyhook currently provides coverage of more than 70 percent of the population. In Europe, the top 50 metropolitan areas are covered, along with 70 percent of the population in Germany, France and the UK. The rest of Western Europe is announced to be covered in mid-summer 2008. Coverage expansion in key Asian markets, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries is currently underway.

Scheduled to be available to consumers beginning June 6, 2008, the Eye-Fi Explore wireless memory card will also give users the freedom to upload photos while away from home at one of Wayport’s 10,000+ hotspot locations. By simply turning on the camera in a Wayport location, the card will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network and begin uploading photos to the Web and the user’s PC or Mac.

The photographer does not need to have a Wayport account or a laptop with them to upload pictures for free from their digital camera. Eye-Fi will notify users via SMS or e-mail messages regarding the progress of the upload session.

Wayport enables public and private applications across the U.S. in major hotels, McDonald’s restaurants, Hertz airport locations, and other top retail brands.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/eye-fi-adds-geotagging-of-photos/feed/ 0 PMA08: digital cameras connect to photo sharing (at last) http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/02/digital-cameras-connect-to-photo-sharing/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/02/digital-cameras-connect-to-photo-sharing/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:48:40 +0000 Carl http://carlconrad.wordpress.com/?p=18 For sure, recent PMA was the opportunity for numerous announcements. Quite logically, my interest went to digital camera manufacturers showing photo sharing connectivity.

The first pretty impressive was the Samsung GX-20 with its optional battery pack featuring Wi-Fi connectivity. Demonstrated at the show was upload to Picasa. Flickr also showed up in the menus but not done due to contractual reasons.

Lumix previewed a nice implementation allowing both upload to Picasa and sending by e-mail.

My preference goes to Eye-Fi, a small SD card featuring 2 Gbytes of storage and an automatic Wi-Fi based upload of the photos either to my computer or to photo sharing sites. Once connected to the defined Wi-Fi network, the card automatically uploads the pictures as defined. The list of supported photo sharing sites is already impressive. No doubt that KoffeePhoto will be added soon.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/02/digital-cameras-connect-to-photo-sharing/feed/ 2 The beauty of old digital pictures http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2007/12/the-beauty-of-old-digital-pictures/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2007/12/the-beauty-of-old-digital-pictures/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:07:59 +0000 Carl http://carlconrad.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/the-beauty-of-old-digital-pictures/ People ask me what kind of processing I used to get the picture I’ve placed on the home page of this blog.

Well, believe it or not, none!

In fact, it’s a picture taken with my last century’s digital camera, a Konica Q-M100… Low resolution and low speed (when I pressed the button, there were no cars). But I really like the result.

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