I am using the eye-fi pro card in the grip of my d7000. Battery drain seems to be a real problem. Took 100 pics and have 26% left in a Nikon battery with a 0 age. I did leave the camera on while it sat around the house, is the card constantly sending out wifi? It sure seems that way, I didnt think it would drain the battery that quickly.
Well I don't have a Eye-Fi card myself but I'd say it's probably draining because it is either searching for a signal or getting pinged/pinging your wifi network to see if anything needs to be transferred.
This is why I shake my head when people want Nikon to integrate WiFi and GPS into the cameras. Wifi would rain the battery faster and so would GPS. I mean look at the people who use the GPS-1 or the battery life of the AW100.
boshek wrote:
I am using the eye-fi pro card in the grip of my d7000. Battery drain seems to be a real problem. Took 100 pics and have 26% left in a Nikon battery with a 0 age. I did leave the camera on while it sat around the house, is the card constantly sending out wifi? It sure seems that way, I didnt think it would drain the battery that quickly.
Something is not right. With power like in the D7000, you should not see any difference, or, very little. We have several D7000's in the office, and it's a beautifully Eye-Fi Connected camera.
Do you have Eye-Fi Direct enabled? Have you changed the sliders in the Center, to NEVER turn off? Typically, the card will stay on for 2 minutes, and then turn off, after an Eye-Fi Direct network is spawned. On a normal network -- it will try to connect, and if it can't, it'll go back to sleep.
The card only turns the radio on, when it has to upload. If it can't connect, it'll turn the radio off, and the D7000 will turn the power off completely, since it's Eye-Fi Connected:
I have the same issue with mine on a D7000 also. If I leave my camera for a day, it will deplete the battery to 0.
The ipad transfer is really nice though.
gillat wrote:
Something is not right. With power like in the D7000, you should not see any difference, or, very little. We have several D7000's in the office, and it's a beautifully Eye-Fi Connected camera.
Do you have Eye-Fi Direct enabled? Have you changed the sliders in the Center, to NEVER turn off? Typically, the card will stay on for 2 minutes, and then turn off, after an Eye-Fi Direct network is spawned. On a normal network -- it will try to connect, and if it can't, it'll go back to sleep.
The card only turns the radio on, when it has to upload. If it can't connect, it'll turn the radio off, and the D7000 will turn the power off completely, since it's Eye-Fi Connected:
Are you running the latest 5.0001 or 5.0006 firmware? Is the camera staying on? If the camera stays on -- of course it would use the batteries. But it should NOT stay on, because it's Eye-Fi Connected, and it turns power to the entire camera, when we're done uploading. So something else is going on:
* take a few photos, and notice the radiating beams in the info display, animating
* confirm that the shots are coming to your iPad or your computer
* confirm that after the shots are done, the radiating beams stop animating, and the Eye-Fi logo is hollow and not black
* confirm that the info display goes off, and the power goes off. You'll confirm that power has gone off, by looking through the viewfinder, and seeing that the green LED's in the viewfinder are all off
The camera is now off, and it has turned off, on it's own, because the card was done uploading.
If the camera does not turn off, you've probably set the card's Eye-Fi Direct mode to NEVER turn off. Go into Center, and set it to 2 minutes and 2 minutes (on both sliders).
If the card is uploading through the WAN, to our servers, and it takes hours -- I would understand that it could take a long time, but again -- it's because the card is uploading. But if the card is done uploading, there would be 0 draw on the battery, since everything is off.
Are you using the Nikon battery grip or aftermarket. I had a problem with an aftermarket found all kinds of weird stuff to my d7000 including constantly loosing pictures. If I just moved the camera the light would come on like it was writing to the card. Mine was a Neewer brand. Once I took it off it all stopped happening.
? It sure seems that way, I didnt think it would drain the battery that quickly.