I recently upgraded from a Canon 20D to a Canon Rebel T2i. One of fringe benefits was that the T2i takes SD cards instead of CF cards – meaning I can use an Eye-Fi card without an adapter. I’m a big fan of Eye-Fi cards – really of anything that makes data transfer easier.
I was having some trouble getting the new Eye-Fi card to work with the T2i, and after some time I found that there is a special Eye-Fi menu item in the camera settings (bottom item in first yellow/wrench settings screen). Eye-Fi support was disabled by default, I simply had to go in and enable it in the camera menu. Once I did that, everything was gravy.
Even better, the T2i1 has special Eye-Fi support that will keep the camera on while transfers are happening. Awesome.
I was surprised that the setting info wasn’t easier to find, so hopefully this post helps fix that.
- Along with the T1i and several other models. from what I understand. [back]
1. You consider that an upgrade? I’d consider it a cross-grade given that you went to a plastic body.
2. What’d you do with the 20D? 🙂
I did what anyone would do when considering upgrading their camera – I called a professional and asked for advice. Eric said that this would be a pretty significant upgrade and that the differences between the T2i and the 7D are minimal. This is backed up by DPReview.
The body feels solid and being able to shoot HD video with the camera is pretty nice. I’ve also gone up a few generations in sensors, etc.
Though I do miss some of the controls on the 20D, like the wheel.
A friend is taking it off my hands for me actually, he needed a second body.
THANK YOU!! I have been pulling my hair out trying to get the eye fi card to transfer the photos to my iPad. I couldn’t figure out why the card wouldn’t connect to our network while in the canera. How did you discover this? I don’t recall seeing it in the set up directions! Regardless, so happy it finally works now 🙂