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In our several months of use primarily in review cameras, the Eye-Fi's shortcomings have all been pretty minor. The original SD card (left) and the included card reader. And if your dSLR uses SD cards, an Eye-Fi can add sophisticated and trouble-free WiFi capability to even that class of camera.Д®ye-Fi. In fact, it has managed to provide more WiFi capability that current WiFi digicams from Nikon and Panasonic. In the grand scheme of things, the Eye-Fi has turned out to be all that we hoped early this year when we first saw it at PMA and awarded it two of our PMA Envy awards. Eye-Fi has also added Best Buy as a vendor, joining Circuit City, Ritz Camera Centers and online sources. The company also announced new support for Apple's MobileMe and AdoramaPix. The D90 will also include an Eye-Fi menu to disable wireless transmission, for example, in a hospital or airplane The same power management introduced with the Nikon D60 will be available in the Nikkon D90 dSLR.Expansion of the product's distribution to Japan and Canada before the end of the year.Geotagging doesn't use the GPS system but nearby wireless routers to divine your location. Faster wireless uploads and the ability to add services from the other cards like Web sharing ($9.99 annual fee), geotagging ($14.99 annual fee) and hotspot access $14.99 annual fee.We suspect it also morphed into the Lexar Shoot-n-Sync WiFi Card last week, too, but we can't confirm it.Д«ut at photokina, the company announced three more innovations:

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The Eye-Fi Explore, which adds unlimited geotagging via nearby wireless routers and hotspot access (where the geotagging gets done) for one year plus upload notification via email and SMS text messaging.

The $99.99 Eye-Fi Share that, like the original, uploads to your home computer or over 20 services.

The $79.99 Eye-Fi Home featuring uploads to just your own computer.

The original 2GB card morphed into three versions in May: 29 issue of the newsletter, the company has been busy adding value to the small SD memory card that can transmit its contents wirelessly to your computer and over 20 photo sharing sites. Since our review of the Eye-Fi in the Feb. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter Both updates retain the improvements from earlier firmware releases.BETTER THAN WIFI DIGICAMS The Eye-Fi WiFi SD Card Evolves Available from the Sony eSupport website, the new firmware has the same list of changes for both cameras: auto compensation support for six lenses, more responsive power switch, front and rear dials, and auto review, better autofocus accuracy in bright scenes, and more responsive AF with the 500mm F4 G SSM lens. As you'd expect, changes made in previous firmware releases are retained.ДЇinally, Sony USA has published firmware for the Alpha SLT-A65 and Alpha SLT-A77 Translucent Mirror cameras. It also reduces raw file sizes by up to 25%, while improving raw processing speeds.

Firmware version 1.04 for the NX200 is on the Samsung website, and most notably improves low-light autofocus.

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Samsung is next in our lengthy list, with an update for the NX200 compact system camera. Again, changes made in earlier versions are included in the new firmware, which can be downloaded from the Ricoh website. This corrects a relatively minor glitch, whereby bright portions in the live preview image may blink a red-purple color briefly, when the shutter button is half-pressed in Toy Camera or Miniaturize modes. Next up is an update for the Ricoh CX6, taking that model to firmware release 1.24. Firmware v5.008, available through the company's Eye-Fi Center software, now forces a network scan on Wi-Fi switch on, fixes a potential Card Error problem in Direct mode, improves WiFi compatibility and performance, and adds an auto-repair mechanism for private partitions. WiFi-capable flash memory maker Eye-Fi, meanwhile, has an update for its Eye-Fi X2-series cards that fixes four problems.

Information and firmware can be found on Canon's site. It also rolls in changes made in the previous v1.1.0 release of firmware.Д¬anon has also added Google Cloud Print compatibility to three of its wireless all-in-one printers, the PIXMA MG6220, MG8220, and MX892. The new release reduces the incidence of overexposure with two upcoming lenses, theВ EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM. That might mean more typing for us, but it's great news for photographers out there: it means products that are more stable, and occasionally, that offer new features.ДЇirst of all, Canon's EOS-1D Mark IV gets a new update to firmware version 1.1.1, available immediately from the Canon USA website. New firmware updates seem to be rolling in faster than we can keep up with them lately.

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