You’ve got a great digital camera. You’ve got all your social media apps on your phone. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could snap a beautiful shot with your DSLR and shuttle it right over to your phone to throw up on Facebook or Instagram? With an inexpensive upgrade, any camera can become a Wi-Fi enabled one.
One of the handiest features you’ll find on newer digital cameras is built-in Wi-Fi connectivity that allows you to transfer files to a computer on your local network or to a nearby smartphone via an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network. If you have an older camera (or newer one that simply didn’t ship with the feature), don’t worry—you aren’t out in the cold. A Wi-Fi SD card can add Wi-Fi connectivity to any camera you have, as long as it has an SD card slot.
We discussed this at length in our tutorial on wirelessly transferring photos to your local computer from your camera, and many of the same things apply here. Instead of re-hashing our selection process, we’ll just say that we recommend the Eye-Fi Mobi Pro ($50). You can check out our previous article if you want more info on the different Wi-Fi SD cards out there and how they work.
Setting Up the Mobi Pro with Your Phone
Grab your mobile device and download the appropriate software for it by either following one of these links for iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, or searching for it in your device’s app store under “Keenai”. Why Keenai? The Eye-Fi company was purchased a few years back, and the software (but not the card itself) has new branding as a result.
Run the application and then plug in the registration code from the physical card that came with the packaging of your Eye-Fi. Once you’ve entered it, click “Install Profile”. (The “Install Profile” will only appear for iOS users; everyone else can skip to the next step.)
Click “Install” on the profile page that pops up. If it prompts you for a passcode, enter the passcode you use to unlock your device to confirm you wish to install the profile.
You’ll be returned to the Keenai application where it will instruction you to pop the Eye-Fi card into your camera and turn it on. Do so now. Take a few pictures to power the card and activate the Wi-Fi radio. Then open up the Wi-Fi settings on your phone or tablet. There, look for a new Wi-Fi network with a name that starts with “Eye-Fi”. Select it. You shouldn’t be asked for a password but if you are, the password is always the registration code off the card that came with your Eye-Fi card.
Now that you’ve established a direct connection between the Eye-Fi card in your camera and your mobile device, transferring photos is as simple as taking the photos while connected to the card and then looking in…
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