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[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
Wow, that sounds tempting. Right now, the side freelance stuff i do is more like $100. I def would not want to do it every Sunday, but dang that's good money. Tell your fiend if they need a photographer i Hawaii to contact me. heh

As for Cameras... that 5d3 is looming, but i'm not sure i can justify it unless the feature set really has something to bring to my shooting (and i can resell the mk2).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] matrix311:
I wouldnt upgrade to the 5d3 if I were you. I'm sure they'll do some video improvement and then increase the mp size which is pointless and maybe some adjustments on the AF system but we'll see. I just need to move to FF sometime soon for my wedding photography. I shot with a 5d2 a while back and enjoyed it. The perfect combo for me would be to have my 24-70mm and 85mm on the 5Dx and my 70-200mm on my 7D for the long shots. I'll probably sell my Tokina 11-16 and get the Canon 16-35 for UWA shots to put on the 5Dx which is a perfect combo. All in time but first I want to get my cameras synced up with my TF so I can start shooting wireless tether.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
I don't care about video. a better AF system would be important to me though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] matrix311:
i'm guessing they will put the 7D's AF system in the 5D3 or if they have something better at the time they'll put it in there.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
Yeah. I'll just need to see how it works and start contemplating...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Steve182:
Whew, that was a good read. Lots of cool info in there, I plan on downloading Quick Pic tonight and seeing how I like it.

I just picked up a Canon T1i last summer and am trying to edge my way into the world of photography. Havent been able to shoot as much as Iv wanted over the year b/c school has taken up a lot of time, but I am hoping that will change soon. Im looking forward to getting the dock as well so I can try hooking up my T1i and seeing if it works. Being able to look at my photos on the Transformer would be sweet!

Looking forward to maybe learning some more about the Transformer as well as photography in this thread :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] swan3609:
Hmm.. I just got my TF and dock a few days ago and the 2nd day I had it was graduation day, So we all went for some beach Volleyball. Me being me, I never go anywher without my 60d so I shoot a few hundred shots of everyone. Now insteed of having to go home and sort threw the pics and throwing them on facebook for others to see, I just threw my SD card into my dock and I was showing everyone the shots I had just taken. Then teathering to my Droid X, I just choose the best 20 shots and threw them up on FB right then and there at the beach.. I was everyones hero..

The TF and dock will be awesome as a daily use computer for me.. The only bad thing it that I do use my 60d about 50% of the time for Video, which is a bit much for the TF.. 720 @ 60fps would be a bit much for it.. I can live though.. I am happy enough with the photo ability of the system as it is..

I do want to know if any of you have used the Eye-fi card ? I never shoot more then 2 or 3 gigs at a time so storage isnt an issue, I just have a hard time dropping $100 on a memory card that I dont know if I will really use that much..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] californiarailroader:
Ahhhh, all these Nikon's and Canon's, save me :D ;) jk LOL I'm a Pentax guy myself, K-7.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
you'll be assimilated soon enough *evilgrin*
[Eee Pad Transformer General] npompei:
Glad that worked out for you man! From what I have read the Eye-Fi cards will work just fine when using SD cards. Now especially since Eye-Fi changed their firmware for Android. So I would imagine it would work great on the TF.

Anyone using the Eye-Fi SD cards regularly, no adapters? How does it work on the TF?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] vecc:
I'm using a micro sd card (class 6) in a sd card adapter since i do not have a dock. Works really well on my Canon EOS 60D. I also use "justpictures" because it connects to Flickr, Picasa and my local media with ease. And it's quite fast too. Really nice to be able to browse my pics from one app.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] swan3609:
Just ordered up my eye-fi card.. should be here in a few days.. I am really wondering how well the whole system will work..

On a side note, I got my 50mm f1.8 the other day and I love that lens..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rbusch:
The nifty-fifty (as it's usually called) is a fun lens! I went for the 85mm f/1.8 myself and can't live without it! More expensive than the 50 but even more wow factor IMHO. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] matrix311:
I to own the nifty fifty, it's a great lens for under $100 by far. I dont use it to often anymore because the 85mm f/1.8 is my fav portrait lens.

Since you own the nifty fifty lens now you have the ability to make a nice cheap poor mans macro lens. This is what I mainly use this lens for now days. Buy a set of Kenko extension tubes to put on the 50mm lens and you got yourself an awesome macro lens. Not sure if you ever thought about going down that path but it's a fun journey to explore and your half way there with the lens.

Check out this thread here for a bunch of examples of the 50mm + kenko extension tube combo. I have a few pictures in this thread somewhere.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=806478
[Eee Pad Transformer General] thering1975:
Suprised how easy it was to get my nikon d5000 to show up on the tf on a fun day photo shoot tomorrow so will put it through is paces. Rented a sigma 150 f2.8 macro so going to be fun
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rbusch:
Have read through the whole thread but didn't seem to see it, so...

Has anyone used an Eye-Fi card with a CF adapter and had success sending it through to the tablet? Speed? I shoot with a 5D.

As many have said, would hate to spend the money on eye-fi and then not have it work.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
If you have the MKII and a very specific CF card adapter, is should work. Many on the Eye-fi forums have had success with it. If you go back to my first post in this thread, i believe i linked to an article about it
[Eee Pad Transformer General] swan3609:
I just ordered my Eye-fi card but I am using a 60d so I figure mine will be pretty easy and straight forward to use. I also shoot in JPG so It will be easy for me..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rbusch:
Looked up that post, yeah pretty much answers my question. Unfortunately I have the 5D not 5D mkII so no luck for me. Thanks :o
[Eee Pad Transformer General] californiarailroader:
Never! :D :D :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
Just received my Eye-fi and the adapter , will play with it the next couple off days and see if i can get things tethered between the 5d mkII and the transformer
[Eee Pad Transformer General] npompei:
yeah man please do. i would love to hear
[Eee Pad Transformer General] matrix311:
Can't wait for your results
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Lohmatiy:
Awesome topic, read all 8 pages with pleasure. Impatiently waiting for the results of Eye-Fi card test)

I use Nikon D3100 and so far use microSD card with microSD to SD adapter in the camera, and then just put microSD without the adapter in my TF. Works very good and doesn't take too much time to move the card between devices.

I also was curious if someone has tried HP application for wireless printing on HP printers (don't remember the name of the App)? I thought that if Eye-Fi way of transfering pics to TF will work, then ability to wirelessly print them on photo-quality printer would be perfect for shooting at a party and selling printed pics right away...

Oh, and another concern - it says on Eye-fi website, that to connect directly (not through a network) to a laptop (a tablet in our case) this card uses Ad-Hoc connection, which is not supported by android as of yet... The only way (that I know) to bypass that is to root the TF, which I don't want to do so far.. Does anyone know if their android software can resolve it somehow? Or any other way to connect directly to TF?

And hm... do you think I can find anything like this for TF? :)

photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
AFAIK, Eye-fi has an android and iOS software that will link your device to the card, when the card in in direct mode.

On the SLR lens mount, that is a giant waste of money. The main reason you'd use a cell phone camera over an SLR is size/convinience. this takes away the only real advantage the phone cam gives you and adds on worse image quality with it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Got a Sony Alpha a350 here which unfortunately takes CF cards instead of SDHC ones. According to the eye-fi website they don't have any plans to support compact flash adapters. Plugging the camera into the dock via usb isnt the end of the world for me, but in these wireless times it would be nice to have the pics stream over to the TF.

Info HERE for anyone else in the same boat.

If anyone does take the plunge and tries a CF adapter coupled with an eye-fi sd card i'd love to hear from you. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
the key is OFFICIALLY. Look back at one of my previous posts on thi forum. One of the Eye-fi founders has been unofficially workign with users and found one or two specific CF card adapters that seem to work. He's collected a list of cameras that other people have tested and verified. As long as the camera supports UDMA, there's a chance.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
First findings Eye-Fi and 5d MKII

It works :)

Yesterday played a little with it and got it working nearly instant.

Although it is not quick (read slow) it works like a charm.

I still need to see if i can get it to work in Direct mode, when my normal Wifi is not present but even if that turns out to be an issue I won't bother as it will be a studio tool and not so much on location, but when it works it's an added bonus.

OK things I used

5dMKII

Eye-fi pro X2

Delock 61796 sd/cf adapter

I've set up the the cam to shoot Raw+jpeg, and set the eye-fi to only transfer the jpegs to the transformer, then nicely are shown full screen mmmmm nice.

What to test next?

Do you guys want timings..but i guess that would be hard to test because it depends on a lot of factors and would produce some useless stats.

Regards

Kef
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tekkitan:
I love this thread. I am an amateur photographer and this thread has given me quite a few ideas on using my TF. I'll be on a two week vacation end of the year and planned on using my camera (Nikon D60) along with my TF. Hopefully a few of the issues people have will be worked out by then too :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] matrix311:
Please see about getting direct mode to work where wifi isn't present. Since all of my shooting is done on location I wont have wifi available. See if you can get this rocking with your setup and thank you for the work you have done and your feedback and also updating this thread for the rest of us.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
Did some reading on the topic of direct mode, we'll see how far we get with it.

Will check it later today/this week.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stumpi:
Great thread, thanks for all the good information.

I successfully connected my 50D with TF and am very happy with the two gadgets. I think the combination is a great thing for photographers. What I missed was an app where I can rate the images from 1 to 5 stars. So I developed over the weekend a simple app. You can choose the directory with the images (it loads all the images even the ones in subdirectories) and go through all images and give them your rating. After you can sort it (for example all 3 and more star photos). This selection you can export to a new directory or export and resize it (actually only to 1200 px with)

The rating is saved in the EXIF data of the picture. But because every program has it's own place to store the rating in EXIF it's actually not working with Lightroom or Windows (I'm working on this).

This app is in very early beta. So don't expect a crashless experience ;-) It was just my weekend job. Let me know if you think this app is useful. I can implement some wishes if there are any...

Cheers,

Christoph
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
nice work,

it would be very cool if you would get the rating so it can be used with Lightroom

Although i do not rate my pics with the stars... just pick or reject..

regards

Kef
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
HERE's a video demonstration.

And HERE's the app.

As far as I remember from an old DPReview discussion only older DSLR models work, e.g. Canon 20D was the last Canon model, as far as I know. OTOH the 5D2 seems to work too.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
Yes the 5d MKII works, as for a second test I'll try my 40D to.

regards

kef
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
Old cameras will work with the older Eye-fi card. the X2 cards will only work with cameras (and Cf adapters) that support UDMA
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Alwar:
Hi, we are working on new photo application and we are planning to implement the rating in the same format as Lightroom uses (Adobe uses RDF format with open ontologies).

We wanted to release a demo app in these days, but we still have many issues, that cause crashes, so I only attach some screenshots (in zip, can't post external links yet).

In september / october, we want to release first version, so if you have any ideas how to improve the functionality, we would appreciate it.

Now - the app alows to view images in RAW, make some image corrections, decode images to JPG/PNG with custom quality (12 Mpx is still quite slow - about 15-20 seconds) and work with metadata (camera, lenses, aperture, rotation, rating, ...).

In final application, we want to implement importing directly from camera, make editing compatible with Lightroom (filters, crop, rating,...), speed up decoding and integrate some publishing services (flickr, picasa, facebook,...).

I am looking forward to your ideas, I hope we'll release some BETA soon.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
UDMA cards work in the a350 but it's not 'enabled' and/or 'supported' (by Sony) as such, and therefore top performance is limited by some aspects of the camera itself. There's too many if's and maybes to shell out a fair amount of cash just to try an eye-fi card with it for my liking, but cheers for the response. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
Nice initiative, concernig the screenshots, I would not call it decode but export i know it actually is decoding but exporting is more the correct term.

I guess I'm an ideal beta tester for the app as I am both a Developer(windows software) and a photographer as a side job... lol.

Direct tethering would be awesome off course either via eye-fi (wft) or usb.

Give me a message if you need more input or want me to play around with it.

regards

Kef
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
A few thoughts:

1) Will this only run on Honeycomb?

2) Exporting to smugmug would also be a great addition

3) Numerical units next to the slider bars on the edit module

4) Additional controls to move up or down just the dark or light levels of the image.

Thanks for this! I've been hoping for something just like this.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kefje27:
Hi All,

I did some test with direct mode, it works , but nothing to write home about...

the connection is pretty fragile as it is probably to much shielded...

It was working but from the moment i went out of range it(Transformer) lost connection and did not get it to connect again...

However as we are Android lovers( I am) I also own a HTC Desire...on which i Activated the Wireless hot spot, configured it in the Eye-fi and the transformer..

put the card back in the 5dMKII and started shooting... and behold...Images where popping up on the Transformer in a better way then using the direct mode.

So as i see it is either see if you have a good wireless access-point or use a

ad-hoc network via your Android based phone but the direct mode is too poorly to be stable unless you keep the tablet and Cam in close proximity of eachother let's say 1meter...

That's it for now, questions .. fire away..

It's cool having this working very nice.....

regards

Kef
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Lohmatiy:
Hi,

I've tested eye-fi with Nikon d3100 and it works. I agree, that DirectMode is slow and not too reliable as of the moment. And one more negative thing in my opinion, is the fact that you have to create an account with Eye-Fi in order to start using this card... Even if you are not going to use their on-line sharing and back up option.

Other than that - it looks like it's a very good card, however the interface and set-up procedure could be easier.

However, the ability to see your pics on a normal 10" screen in less than a minute is awesome. I hope they will continue improving the card.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Alwar:
Thanks for your responds, I will post some beta as soon as we have something a little more stable
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mveksler:
It would be nice to have Canon SDK ported to Android so that we can take full control of our cameras. I own 5D Mark II and would love to have live view with full control on the tablet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryusen:
Hopefully, once they see that there is enough consumer demand.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
Am I wrong or doesn't only one decent photo editor exist for Android. So far I only found junk for kids.

I'm searching for an app, that does all the basic editing for photographers:

- read Exif data

- show histogram

- histogram correction

- white balance correction
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Feoen:
Silly question:

When I plug my SD card from my Nikon D90 into my Transformer Keyboard Dock, it reads all the .JPEGs.

I would like to be able to click on one to view it, then swipe left or right to go through the images on the card like I would be able to in Gallery. However, I cannot seem to do this when they are stored on the SD card.

Is there a way to enable this in the Gallery app, or is there another app that would allow me to do this?

Thank you.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
QuickPic is similar to the stock gallery, but much better.

This will solve your problem.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] npompei:
Well guys, it hasn't taken long! The DSLR Controller app has hit the market. Its for Canon only (my guess is only for a short time before Nikon and possibly others.) Its in BETA right now, so some certain bugs but it is really really cool. Just like I was asking for in my first post, I got! Live View, focusing, WB, shutter speed, aperature, etc. Its a complete remote control from the camera to the tablet.

I just downloaded it and played with it for 5 min. and I am really pumped to use it a lot. Apparently this dev. is one awesome dude and there are many updates planned in the future. Get to the store now and give it a shot. Also, price is $8.xx and he said it is going up once more updates come out, but free to those who get into BETA. The link for the thread in XDA is in here, just search DSLR controller.

Have fun and let me know how it works for you...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chimphappyhour:
So it is free, or at least cheaper if you're a Canon user but once it finally updates to include Nikon users, we're going to pay more? Oh, yay. Can't wait.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] vincey:
Are you using this app on the Transformer? Are you connecting to the tablet or the keyboard dock? What cable did you use?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dealsrme:
Got this up and running with my XSI and Transformer+dock. Works perfectly except that the capture button isn't working. Chainfire is incredible.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] deadman3000:
Any idea if the app will work with one of those wifi SD cards? Being tied by a USB cable would be rather annoying.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] npompei:
Yep I used my dock, as thats the only way to connect with a usb cable. Its a usb on the go cable. Has to be a fairly specific usb cable just to make sure it transfers the data.

And no its not free, right now its $8.xx, so really great price all things considered. Some bugs but I need to play with it more.

Its a great tool for use in the studio and dare I say video work as well?! You could, I say could loosly, but you could use this as a monitor on a nice video rig because it works in live mode!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] nex7er:
Too laggy for that, but this will be great for landscapes and macro considering the app lets you focus in tiny increments
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Underwater Mike:
I'll give it a try once the Nikon support is out. Thanks for the info.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] number16:
I'm an amateur photographer, and I never thought about using the TF101 in that manner, but this thread definitely starts me off on something that is very, very interesting.

During my last trip to Europe I brought my Olympus PEN with me (don't want to start another discussion about PEN in here, but let me just say carrying a PEN or a micro 4-3rd is a LOT easier on trips and the photos aren't necessarily worse than DSLRs) I used my TF101 to upload photos once I got back to the hotel.

I never thought about plugging the camera directly into the tablet though, something I'll try when I get home tonight.

The RAW apps mentioned here are great, but I am not sure they read Olympus RAW files.

I also wonder if there's any half-decent photo editing software for the tablet. I know you are limited in what you can do compared to a real computer, but is there anything that can do basic editing functions like cropping, contrast, brightness, saturation etc adjustment?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
So far I only found junk for kids ... not only one app, that I would call a photo editor.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Photoshop Express is quite basic but works fairly well on the TF. Won't let you edit raw files though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
Without wanting to be offensive, but this is the most disapointing of all ... pretty useless ... a shame for Adobe ... even the stock photo editor of my SGS2 is more powerful. I wish I would have that app on my TF. It's just named Photo Editor ... didn't find it in the market, but Photo Enhance seems to be similar.

I wish we would have an editor, that can show Exif and would have a levels correction like in Photoshop.

But the market just seems to start noticing, that (semi-)professional photographers are interested in apps.

I expect the market to show improvement soon, the currently developed RAW converters seem to be the first step in the right direction.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] vincey:
Any suggestions on where to get the right OTG cable the works with the TF?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Yeah you're right it's not great but better than nothing. :) For photo editing its obviously still best to do it on your desktop pc. The TF is great for viewing pics taken in the field though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] npompei:
If you still have the usb cable from the camera that will work. Or if you have a card reader usb cable or any other data cable that goes into the camera slot with a usb end.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
Not only that. It's also great for showing portfolios, you optimized on PC ... be it for friends or even customers.

Btw ... many enterprises start to use tablets for sales persons in the field, showing product portfolios.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tlcb:
Well, for portofolios the Zfolio, FlickrFolio or the SmugFolio will do fine. I shoot D700 and D90, and upload some of them to my smugmug and just show it to client/friends using smugfolio. It does have upload apps, but I haven't try it yet to connect directly to camera and upload RAW (which i dont know why I would upload raw, unpolished pic aniway).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Aymara:
Not always. If I shoot at a race track, that's not practical to show photos to a team after the race and showing on a tablet in the field is more impressive than a Smugmug link :D