Nikon D90 support

[markteicher]

I thought I read online somewhere that the Nikon D90 was the first camera to integrate the eye-fi menuing into the firmware, but I guess that is not the case, the Nikon D90 does have support for GPS through a 10 pin connector, using a couple of different GPS options. What cameras do have the eye-fi manager or some options built-in??

[hyachts]

Why do you say that it doesn't have that support? From the press release:

The Eye-fi Connected Nikon D90 will be unveiled at Photokina in Cologne, Germany on September 23, 2008.

EDIT: Well, I see that it's apparently available already, but do you have one and haven't seen the described Eye-Fi menu?

[LarryG]

A D90 18-105 VR kit just arrived here at the Eye-Fi Office so here is what I can share via "first hand' knowledge.

1. In order to see the Eye-Fi Menu item in the D90, you will have to have an Eye-Fi Card inserted in the camera. The camera will then display the "Eye-Fi Upload" option in the Setup Menu between the "GPS" and "Firmware version" menu items.

2. This new menu gives the user the option to enable or disable the Eye-Fi Card's ability to upload photos when inside the camera.

3. In addition to the menu, the D90 will automatically provide power to the Eye-Fi Card when there are photo uploads pending or photos being uploaded. Once all uploads are completed, the camera reverts back to the user defined "Auto meter-off delay" power settings in the Custom Setting Menu.

The Eye-Fi Manager software is not currently built into any camera. The Nikon D90 is the only camera to date that has any kind of Eye-Fi Card menu. The Nikon D60 "knows" when an Eye-Fi Card is inserted and automatically keeps the power on to the SD card slot for 3 minutes after a photo is taken.

Main Nikon D90 Eye-Fi Upload menu


Eye-Fi Upload - Enable/Disable option

[markteicher]

I guess the Nikon D90 I picked up had an earlier firmware release, since even with the eye-fi card inserted, I do not see the eye-fi menu as displayed below. I will call Nikon technical support to see if they can resolve the issue.

[LarryG]

Mark,

The D90 we have here in the office lists the cameras firmware as:
A 1.00
B 1.00
L 1.000

Here is a suggestion. Format your Eye-Fi Card in the Nikon D90. I'm curious to know if that will allow for the Eye-Fi Menu to appear.

Larry

[periwinkle]

Omigosh! I've had the D90 less than a week. No IDEA I had an Eye-Fi menu! Was using the Eye-Fi in my older D50 until today. I did notice that I hadn't set any power settings at all but the camera didn't shut off as it was transfering the 190 photos from the soccer games today. But thanks for the info because by gosh - there it is! Nifty!

I was a little bummed, though, that the card tagged all of our soccer photos as if they came from our house. The soccer fields are about 2 miles away. I guess the wifi in my house is the closest one that it recognizes? That kinda stinks. But that's not really for this topic area. I digress.

Enjoying my D90!

Anna

[hyachts]

Anna,
The card has about a one hour window (I say about, but I think it is exactly one hour) in which it will consider a picture to have been taken at the last good wifi fix. In other words, if your camera gets a good fix at your house and then you head somewhere where there is no wifi, it will tag any pictures you take for the next hour (an hour from the last good fix) as being at your house. There have been a number of requests to make that time period shorter or, ideally, configurable - see the feature request forum.

Sam

[gadgetnut]

Could you help me please? I have a recent Nikon D90 and the EyeFi 4GB. Transfers of photos are working great; except after about four or five (pretty large jpg's) the automatic transfer process stops until I turn the camera off then back on again. Then the transfer starts again and goes for four or five more photos then hangs. I suspect the D90 is going to sleep when this happens, yet I can't find any auto off menu to change the power setting. Can anyone steer me to a fix for this? Otherwise I am kind of shocked and delighted this works so well!

[gadgetnut]

Bump. Help, please?

[berend]

Could you help me please? I have a recent Nikon D90 and the EyeFi 4GB. Transfers of photos are working great; ...

I've PMed you, in case you haven't seen it.

Berend

[gadgetnut]

Thank you for your help, Berend. I am using a WPA/WPA2 Personal encrypted wireless network. I upgraded the firmware on my Eye-Fi card. As soon as I'm able to ascertain how the upload of a larger number of pictures is working, I'll post back here either way.

[gadgetnut]

About eight 3MB photos uploaded successfully then the update froze in the middle of the ninth. At that moment, the LCD display on top of the D90 is still energized, so I don't think this is a camera sleep issue. Interestingly, about two minutes later, another automatic upload spontaneously began with no input from me. And another ten photos uploaded, then froze in the middle of the eleventh file. Incidentally I have two D90 cameras and they both behave indentically with this Eye-Fi card. I would love to be able to upload completely... any ideas? Thanks.

[berend]

It sounds like you're experiencing a WPA/WPA2 interoperability issue that seems to exist with some routers (and is not limited to Eye-Fi Cards, for the record, as even iPhone users are reporting similar issues on Apple's forums). Could you post what make and model your router is, as well as the specifics of your WPA/WPA2 configuration (i.e. TKIP, AES, etc.)?

With the current status quo, you may experience some pauses in transfers, but the card should never hang and it should complete the entire transfer before it tells the Nikon D90 to power down. If you switch to WEP, you won't experience the pauses, but I can understand completely why you wouldn't want to do that. I'll keep you posted if there's any progress on our side.

Thanks,

Berend

[gadgetnut]

I am using a recent Apple Airport Extreme wireless router (802.11n and backwards compatible). As I say, it's WPA/WPA2 Personal encryption, and you're right I would rather not downgrade the encryption. I would be happy to share further specifics of the configuration you refer to, if I knew how/where to find that information... thanks, Berend.

[MonicaWalston]

Is there any way at all to tell if I have the D90 that has eye-fi or not without purchasing and inserting an eye-fi card? Since I don't have one and don't know anyone who does to borrow, I don't want to have to purchase one just to find out I don't have the D90 that doesn't support it. Does anyone know a way to find out before buying a card???