NX300 - Eye-fi card use inhibits Remote Viewfinder mode
Jul 17, 2013
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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.