Eye Fi and Shutter Snitch

About a month ago, I got the notification that I was one of the ten chosen as an Eye-Fi Big Shot.  I was so excited, I couldn’t believe it.  A week or two after that I received my welcome package – which had some great information, business cards a lanyard and a gorgeous, brand new Eye-Fi Pro X2.  I think I might have actually squealed when I opened the package.  So now I’m a very lucky girl with two Eye-Fi Cards!  The new one and the the original Explore Video Card.  I love the original, but this new one.  Oh. My. Ad hoc networks, works with RAW files, 8 (8!) GB!  I love my new card.

There’s a card for every budget and if you take pictures on the road, or at events, you should really look into it.  There’s a great support forum fueled by other users and a community of people who are trying to extend the usability of this idea. Which brings me to the reason for this post; Shutter Snitch. This is one really cool app.  ($7.99 in the app store) For the iPad and iPhone, but I’m focusing on the iPad, right now.

This took me a bit of time to figure out.  Honestly, once I really thought about the technology and what it can and can’t do right now, it made way more sense.  From the developer:

Wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card, soon Canon, Nikon or other filetransmitter that supports uploading to an FTP server.

When a JPEG arrives, ShutterSnitch analyzes it and warns you if anything differs from the rules you’ve set up.

For now shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length, and light level is checked – but more will be added in the future (suggestions are appreciated).

The set up instructions are super easy and the developers notes are very clear – if it’s not working, disable relayed upload.  Unfortunately, that means that you can’t upload to online services – you can switch the settings back and forth, but since I’m lucky enough to have two cards, I use the older card for Shutter Snitch and the newer card for online sharing.  So far it’s working perfectly.  I take my pictures, protect the ones I want to transfer (you can choose to transfer all pictures, but I take a lot of pictures and they’re not all share worthy!), open shutter snitch…

Choose your device and set up Eye-Fi access (you only have to do this once, unless you change the settings on your card)

Open, or create a new collection (you must be inside a collection to receive images)

Then wait.  It takes sometime for the images to start transferring.  The developer mentions this, but I kept thinking there was something wrong.  It does take a while.

But then, like magic, there are your images -

I love the way the gallery looks, it’s so elegant and smooth – you can rate your images, view the histogram, set up rules about your images, such as warnings when your shutter speed or aperture is not what you’re looking for. I don’t really understand much of that yet – but I will… you can email your images, export them to flickr or an FTP server location, preview them… I can see how a professional photographer might use this to show a client previews from a shoot.  I love this app- it’s so well done and it makes me feel like a pro -

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