New Addition – Toshiba FlashAir 32GB Wireless SD Card

With the Nikon 1 V3 just round the corner for grab (and hopefully worth the wait), thought it will be fun to indulge in a rather downplayed area of photography – wireless photography.

I believe the concept was born by a company called Eye-fi a few years back, though it lacked the appeal of a massive storage option then. It remained so until a few major players came into scene recently , with Toshiba giving consumers the most cost-effective solution to date.

At USD60 a piece, the Toshiba 32GB works quite beautifully with an Android tablet, save the fact it still does not supports RAW image display and transfers. So that means JPEG images only, guys and gals. Depending on the type of camera you are using it with, there may still be the need to have your live view turned on in order to transfer your images wirelessly to your tablet.

The concept is simple enough to grasp in terms of how it actually works.  With your camera turned on, the inserted FlashAir card will automatically creates a short-range wireless network where you can easily identify and connect with your phone, tablet or computer.

Each taken shot will appear in the native apps (in the case of a tablet), provided that application is running and in use. I have tried it with the Nikon 1 V1 and each typical 6.1MB JPEG took approximately thirty seconds to transfer onto my Asus Transformer TF701T. You are then given the choice to permanently store it on your tablet or simply share it directly via an pre-configured email client on your tablet.