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NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode

Started Jul 17, 2013 | Discussions
Nikonworks Senior Member • Posts: 2,202
NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode
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Previously I posted that my Eye-Fi card works in my NX300.

It does, BUT...

when I had to use the Remote Viewfinder mode for a shoot:

The camera and my tablet worked as it should. After taking a pic my Eye-fi card would try to send it to my tablet, and in doing so it disconnected the camera Remote Viewfinder Wifi connection and established the Eye-fi card connection to my tablet.

I tried to set my tablet to ignore the Eye-fi card connection but it would keep disconnecting the camera on my wifi list and connect to the Eye-fi card.

My back-up camera, my P7700 also had an Eye-fi card in it.

I was about to run and buy a standard SD card when I remembered my bag had my WB150F

which had a Micro SD card in an SD adapter.

I put this in my NX300 and it worked and I was able to use Remote Viewfinder as the NX300 was designed for.

Bottom line: I will get a cl10 SD card (not Eye-fi) for when I need to use the Remote Viewfinder.

And I will keep using my Eye-Fi card as I can shoot Raw+Jpeg and have the Jpegs transferred to my camera faster than the camera's Mobile Link or Direct Link (which does not permit Raw shooting).

Samsung has a lot to get straight for the up-coming Galaxy NX.

I hope they do!  I hope those 30+ photojournalists Samsung gave NX cameras to shoot with are reporting the same issues I encountered. If not the NX will not be workable as a photojournalist's camera.

But the NX300 is really, really great. Last night I shot a concert with the One Touch Shot and my 50-200 OIS and it never missed AF, even at 200 mm (300 equivalent).

You can't appreciate the Touch AF/Shoot speed until you try it yourself.

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tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode

Your last sentence is gold!!! That's what I've tried to explain to ppl preferring all the cams to nx300. But it's a lost cause, alas.

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OP Nikonworks Senior Member • Posts: 2,202
Re: NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode

tecnoworld wrote:

Your last sentence is gold!!! That's what I've tried to explain to ppl preferring all the cams to nx300. But it's a lost cause, alas.

On top of that, the NX300 lets you look at the stage performers directly with your direct eyesight, while you have your had set over the LCD's spot where the performer is located.

Then when you see what you want, a head turn, a gesture, a grimace, a smile,  etc., you touch your LCD and you get the shot. AMAZING!. Almost no lag time.

Could never shoot like this with any other camera I own.

tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode

that's great! when I show this kind of performance to friends photographers (some of them professional ones) they can't believe to their eyes.

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