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352 The “Setup” (Toolbox Icon) Menu Settings

9.6 UPLOAD SETTINGS (EYE-FI CARD ONLY)

Menu Position MENU  1  Upload Settings
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What it Does Enables or disables transmitting for a 3 party SD card called
“Eye-Fi”

Recommended Setting On, unless you’re on an airplane.

(NOTE 1: This menu item will only appear if an Eye-Fi card is inserted into the SD
slot of your camera.)
(NOTE 2: Given that this camera has a Wi-Fi feature built right in, you would think
that it eliminates the need for an Eye-Fi card. Actually their capabilities don't
entirely overlap. The Eye-Fi card allows you to post directly to social media sites
(the native capability doesn't), and you don’t have to deal with PlayMemories
Home to receive your transmitted images.
Eye-Fi (www.Eye.Fi) is a brilliant SDHC card which packs in a standard 8
– 16 gigs of memory and a Wi-Fi transmitter – all in a tiny little package.
With this card in your camera you can automatically upload your images to
social networking websites such as flickr or Facebook (or your own FTP
server) from any WiFi hotspot in the world, or automatically download
directly to your local hard drive when near your WiFi router. Some models
also employ geotagging using an imprecise service called Skyhook which
attempts to map Wifi Hotspots to geographical locations.

If the card is inserted in the camera’s memory slot, then this menu function
appears and it allows you to turn the card off to save battery power. Once
the card is properly configured and then inserted into your camera, the only
options for this feature are “On” and “Off”. The best reasons to turn it off
is either to save battery power, or keep it from transmitting (which may be
a problem on airplanes).

Endless Memory Mode: From the manual: “This product does not support the
Eye-Fi ‘Endless Memory Mode’. Make sure that Eye-Fi cards that you insert
into this product have “Endless Memory Mode” turned off.”

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