My Eye-Fi card arrived yesterday and wow, what a great little device. The Eye-Fi is an SD card with an embedded wi-fi chip. When used in digital cameras, photos and video captured with the camera can be instantly shared to social networks or sent to a computer (Mac or PC) via wi-fi for archiving. But wait.....there's more! There's a FREE Eye-Fi app for both iOS and Android that allows you to transfer images captured with your Eye-Fi enabled camera directly to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android device.

After getting it all set up I was snapping pic's with my Lumix GF2 (a micro 4/3 digital camera) and watching them show up in the Eye-Fi app on my iPhone as well as in the iPhone's camera roll. The transfer takes 3-5 seconds per image and little thumbnails appear on the Eye-Fi apps home screen after the transfer is complete.

I set my Lumix GF2 to capture both RAW and medium sized Jpeg's. All of the images live on the Eye-Fi card but a copy of each Jpeg is exported out via wi-fi to the location of your choice. I checked the EXIF data of images transferred from my GF2 and all of the original EXIF data from the Lumix seems to be intact. The images retain their original file size too, about 4000X3000 pixels or roughly 4.3MB's per image, that's plenty of real estate to work with when editing images on my iPhone.

The iPhone camera is good but sometimes its just not good enough. There are times when my iPhone 3Gs fails to get the exposure right no matter what I try. The Eye-Fi adds a whole new layer of functionality to iPhone photography. Being able to capture with a better camera and move the image over to my iPhone is something that I've always wanted.... now I've got it. I can't wait to give this new setup a real world test-run later this week.