Toshiba FlashAir W-04 32 GB SDHC Class 10 Memory Card

Im using this with my canon 700D. At first the WIFI was painfully unstable, to a point where I don’t want to use the WIFI on the card instead just wanted to use the card as a normal SD card. I’m talking like every 30 sec it gets disconnected. But it tunes out in the camera there is a setting which tell the camera to go to sleep 30sec if idle. I guess the cards WIFI gets shut down, when there is not enough power. So, I set the to sleep time to 4 min (depending on the need I guess you can set it to whatever minutes you like, provided your camera allows it). The speed on the card is good. It transfers 4.5MB (Jpeg) photos in about 2 or 3 second when its close the devise its being uploaded to. The companion software (FlashAire) can be downloaded in google play store. It’s simple to use. Setting up for the 1st time may be challenging, if you are not much into tech. Then again you can ask a 12-year-old to do it for you.

I use Toshiba Flashair cards with my Sony A7R iv and A7R iii to wire small JPEGs to an iPad in real time while shooting portraits--and they work really well. If, like me, you were hoping to use the A7R iv's advertised ability to wirelessly tether to a MacBook, you'll probably have been as frustrated as I was to discover that the simply horrible Imaging Edge Remote software refuses to shake hands with your new camera wirelessly, since it always thinks a camera is already connected via USB! (So far, Sony have failed to fix this bug.) The workaround, if you also use an iPad and have clients who like to see your images in real time, is to purchase a Toshiba FlashAir card for your A7R iv camera (or A7r iii) and a subscription to ShutterSnitch for your iPad. Then you can shoot RAW to a fast card in Slot 1 and small lowest-quality JPEGs to Toshiba FlashAir card in Slot 2, which will show up nice and fast on your iPad. As some buyers have stated, getting the FlashAir card configured correctly to begin is somewhat challenging. Partly this is because the Toshiba/Kioxia software is pretty clunky, but mainly it's because, if you follow the weblink printed in the current manual to download the software you'll be taken to a page in Japanese! A better idea is to enter 'Flash Air Configuration Software' in your favourite Search Engine, and with luck you'll end up on the right web page. Download and install the relevant software on your PC or Mac and, when you've connected the new FlashAir card via an SD card reader, make sure to turn "EyeFi Connected Card" to "On" in the Settings, and also make sure you've selected the max timeout value of 30 minutes. Just one more slight hiccup to deal with: when insert your FlashAir card in your camera, turn on the camera and fire a few test images, the FlashAircard will start transmitting a signal that your iPad will detect. Connect to the card's ad hoc wifi network and enter the password 12345678, launch ShutterSnitch, enable FlashAir card connectivity in the ShutterSnitch settings, create a new collection and ShutterSnitch will recognize that a FlashAir card wants to start sending images to your iPad. And then you'll panic . . . because nothing else will happen. No images will download and you'll fear you've made a terrible purchase. But instead of panicking,close down the ShutterSnitch App. Turn off the camera. Remove the FlashAir card from Slot 2 in your camera. Then put the card back in the camera. Turn on the camera again. Shoot another couple of test images. (In the Sony A7 menu, you might want to make sure your image review is set to last 2 or 5 minutes.) Then go to your iPad and reconnect to the FlashAir network. Finally, relaunch the ShutterSnitch App. Abracadabra! By the time you've done all this, your five or ten test images will all have downloaded to your iPad and you're good to go for wireless tethering in real time. Weird, but it works every time. And if ever your wifi connection does drop out, either reconnect via the Wifi Settings page on your iPad or turn off the camera, remove theFlashAir card, re-insert it, re-start the camera, and repeat the other steps mentioned above. It might sound like a huge hassle, but I've found the FlashAir card to be fairly tenacious even when there are much stronger wifi networks in the vicinity. Hand on heart, I'm getting wireless tethering that's reliable enough and fast enough to use during professional shoots. One last caveat. Be warned that the JPEGs that get wired across to you iPad so nice and fast are REALLY soft. You and your clients can assess composition, facial expression and overall lighting but you absolutely CANNOT judge focus. Every shot on your iPad will look as if you missed focus by a fair bit--not so badly as to prevent you judging composition, expression and lighting, but certainly soft enough that you'll worry the shot won't be useable in print or on the web. If you review the RAW file on the LCD on your camera, though, you'll usually discover that the details you wanted in focus are in fact beautifully crisp. Huh? I don't know what happens to the image that gets transmitted by the FlashAir card or displayed on the iPad by the ShutterSnitch app, but it seems puzzlingly fuzzy even for a Standard Quality JPEG--like a proxy image embedded in a RAW file, actually, but worse. But if you would really benefit from wireless tethering for image review purposes and can live with the lack of visual confirmation of critical focus is something, then I absolutely recommend slipping a FlashAir card into Slot 2 of your A7r iii or iv.

I purchased this item for my Nikon DLSR. This is a good invention and a nice piece of tech but the reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that the installation process was very difficult and also the web support for this was not good. I struggled to find a UK call number on Toshiba’s FlashAir site and the instructions were fairly limited. I still am unsure how I installed this, I think I used a USB SD card reader in my PC to try and sync the two together. I did make things more complicated for myself as the PC I was using is hard wired to the internet and didn’t have WIFI so I had to instal a little WiFi dongle too. At the moment it works adequately, I struggle to delete photos from the SD card from the folder on the PC when it displays. Remember guys to increase the standby time on your camera to allow the pictures to download to the PC as if the camera goes into standby mode the connection will be lost and the FlashAir seizes to work.

First one was dead on arrival, but the replacement is working fine so far after a couple of days. I use it in a Pentax K5, which has a metal body and weather sealing. However the door to the card slot is plastic, so the wi-fi range is fine for a few metres. Very simple to set up if you download and read the instructions from the web site in advance. You just install the software on your laptop, pop the card into an SD card slot and run the software. It finds the card automatically and asks you to set up a suitable SSID and password. Put it back into the camera, turn it on and it appears on your mobile phone just like any other WiFi hotspot. The app on the phone does all I want it to do. If you want the pictures to appear automatically you need to tick the "Auto reload" setting which update the thumbnails with new pictures taken, otherwise you need to press a refresh button manually. It displays the pictures as thumbnails and you select which ones to download. That is my preferred way of working as only 1 in 5 of my pictures is worth saving! It loses the connection when the camera automatically turns off, so I had to increase the time-out on the camera from 1 minute to 10 minutes. I suspect when I use it a lot it will flatten the camera battery quickly. I usually keep a couple of charged spares handy so should not be a problem. Its limitations mean I won't be using it all the time, but it should be useful for those occasions when I want to share pictures on Instagram or Whatsapp. My 8 year old camera now has WiFi - ace! One star knocked off for the DOA - always a PITA to return stuff.

Saw these SD cards with wifi built in which was perfect for me as I could just send my files to the card installed in my 3D printer. Do they work? Not really. When plugging the card into Windows 10 the system tells you need to format the card before you can use it which is strange because every single USB drive & SD card I've ever bought works out the box without needing to format. Windows 10 then informed me at the end of the format that it failed as it could not format. You are then left with a useless piece of plastic and not a single utility or Toshiba utility can see the card or do anything with it. When searching in Amazon I only found Toshiba did wifi SD cards and now I know why. Save your money and buy two normal SD cards for the same price. Nice idea just very poor product.

I have a D3200 convinced that the 16gb FlashAir w-04 would work. It took only minutes to get it up and running with no problems at all. It is very quick and very stable. What I did so far when at home, I told my iPad and android phone to forget my home WiFi. I then put the FlashAir card into my Nikon D3200 and switched it on. I also then pressed the play button on the back of the camera to view photos taken. I then go to iPad or android and find the FlashAir in my WiFi settings and connect. Go to the FlashAir app and you will have to enter the default passcode 12345678. You are also given the chance to change this. The app connects to camera and brings in all photos from flashair sd card. Yes, if you leave it a while, the camera will auto turn off the screen and connection to app will be lost, but you only need press the play button on the back again, and all will come back. I am writing this, as I wished someone had before taking a risk. So hope this gives you all you need to know to give you confidence in getting one of these cards. It is going to make life so much easier to quickly connect and instantly share photos without all the hassle. Love it! Oh yeah and also had both android phone and iPad viewing photos from card simultaneously... amazing

After eye-fi disaster, I was looking another wi-fi card to send photos from my ikon D610. This Toshiba is easier and faster than the rubbish eye-fi. The app connects much better, transfer to iOS is amazingly easy and there's no drop or problems. I read all reviews and noted that almost 90% is misuse or lack of knowledge related. These cards are a bit tricky to set up properly if you don't know how a network works.

It sounded like a great idea, but... The product works, but has a convoluted setup process and didn't achieve the convenience I was hoping for as wifi enabled storage for my DSLR. Rather than attaching to my existing wifi network, the product creates its own hotspot to which a client computer must then attach. This means the client computer, while being able to access the stored photos on the camera, cannot connect to the internet, thus prohibiting a significant usage secenario - i.e. wirelessly sharing photos via WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. Somewhere in the documentation there is a suggestion of a workaround to overcome this limitation by allowing internet pass-through, however, having spent an hour or so fiddling around with software and settings I haven't yet figured out how to make this work. One day when I'm feeling patient, I may try again, but for now I'm just using the card as conventional SD storage. I certainly would not buy this product again.