Wireless LAN SD(sdcard.org) |
Wireless LAN SD(sdcard.org) |
But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers?
In a sense, I find it incredible because - is there a parallel world where we'd all be using SD cards as micro computers, and would just have small docks with usb/ethernet? These could have competed with Pis, could be deployed as micro servers..?
Anyway, if someone has real actual information, I'd love to learn more!
Actually - this article [0] seems to imply that this whole micro-world is sorta dead? But wifi SD cards are real and exist? Do they run Linux...??
(Having my old feed reader archives is useful! >smile<)
Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone.
There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux, which emulated an SD storage card and exposed its contents over wireless. The latter are what that article was about.
Database updates are still using SD cards though, but just a normal one as far as I know.
I've flown some 172s. When the DA40 came out I thought it seemed like a really, really neat airplane. I got some marketing lit and talked to people about it from Diamond at Sun 'n Fun (in 2004, I think). It's nothing I could have even remotely approach buying then (or now, unless I wanted to live in it, I guess) but I just wanted to soak up some of the aura of the thing.
It worked fairly well but at some point I got nervous that it might miss a photo and switched back to a boring SD card.
[0]: https://www.returnbooleantrue.com/2009/01/eye-fi-standalone-...
* https://old.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/12ocr4u/the_wi...
A number of mirrorless cameras (from Sony, Canon, Nikon, etc) have built-in Wifi nowadays.
Apple makes (made?) an SD Card to lightning dongle. It's a wonderful thing on vacations.
I can take the SD Card from my Hasselblad and plug it into my iPhone. I then delete photos and videos I don't want, upload the keepers to iCloud as a backup, and AirDrop pictures to my wife so she can send them to her friends.
iOS has no problem with most current raw formats, and you can even convert them to JPEGs right in the phone.
You can also import the raw images and do basic editing of the photos with the Photos app.
The only problem I've run into is with long videos sometimes being laggy. But that might be an issue with a slow card, or moving data over a Lightning interface.
I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and time sync. It would immediately solve all the connectivity issues.