Nikon manual David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

472David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

■Transmit your images. Another option is to transmit your images, as they are shot, over a network to your laptop, assuming a network and a laptop are available. You can use Nikon’s Wireless Transmitter WT-4a, and beam the images over to a com- puter as you shoot them using the gadget’s Image Transfer mode. A company called Eye-Fi (www.eye.fi) markets a clever Secure Digital card with wireless capabilities built-in (covered more in Chapter 10). They currently offer four models, includ- ing the basic Eye-Fi Home (about $50), which can be used to transmit your pho- tos from the D7000 to a computer on your home network (or any other network you set up somewhere, say, at a family reunion). Eye-Fi Share and Eye-Fi Share Video (about $60 and $80, respectively), which are basically exactly the same (Share Video is 4GB instead of 2GB in capacity), include software to allow you to upload your images from your camera through your computer network directly to websites such as Flickr, Facebook, Shutterfly, Nikon’s own My Picturetown, and digital print- ing services that include Walmart Digital Photo Center. The most sophisticated option is Eye-Fi Explore, which I use, a 4GB SDHC card that adds geographic loca- tion labels to your photo (so you’ll know where you took it), and frees you from your own computer network by allowing uploads from more than 10,000 WiFi hotspots around the USA. Very cool, and the ultimate in picture backup.

■External backup. You can purchase external hard disk gadgets called Personal Storage Devices (see Figure 14.6), which can copy files from your memory cards automatically. More expensive models have color LCD screens so you can review your images. I tend to prefer using a netbook, like the one shown in Figure 14.7. I can store images on the netbook’s internal hard disk, and make an extra backup copy to an external drive as well. Plus, I can access the Internet from WiFi hotspots, all using a very compact device. Lately, I’ve been backing up many images on my iPad, which has 64GB of storage—enough for short trips.

Figure 14.6

Small battery- operated per- sonal storage devices can back up your images.