Updated at 10:00 on September 03, 2017
Sentence ● Edited by Yasumasa Kimikuni ● Go Minamida
The camera function of Xperia has the irreplaceable advantage that you can take a picture immediately and easily anywhere. On the other hand, I also want to satisfy the desire to share photos taken by carrying a camera as a hobby. In such a case, Toshiba's "FlashAir" is convenient.
Recently, the number of digital cameras that support Wi-Fi and can be transferred directly to Xperia has increased, but if your digital camera is not equipped with Wi-Fi or is not easy to use, you should try using FlashAir. maybe.
By the way, how to make Wi-Fi available is that the SD card itself has Wi-Fi built-in, and it communicates wirelessly. SD cards with built-in Wi-Fi have been around for a long time, and a well-known product is "Eye-Fi", but unfortunately this is no longer sold.
FlashAir has also been on sale since around 2012, but the transfer speed of the model (W-01) at that time was too slow and it was quite difficult to use, so I have had the experience of stopping using it. Some time later, I heard that the 4th generation FlashAir was considerably improved, so I bought it to try it again.
As for the performance of the SD card, it is compatible with the UHS-I interface and is compatible with UHS speed class 3 and SD speed class 10. The nominal specs are up to 90MB per second for reads and up to 70MB per second for writes. There are three types of capacities: 64GB, 32GB, and 16GB. The wireless LAN standard is IEEE802.11b / g / n, and the major feature is that the transfer speed is about 2.9 times that of the conventional model (W-03).
Now, there is one caveat before using FlashAir. Since digital cameras do not consume extra power, they usually have a function that automatically turns off the power, but when transferring data corresponding to Eyefi mentioned above, the power is turned off. Some products have settings that do not set to.
FlashAir also supports this "Eyefi interlocking function" and can be used as it is. If your digital camera does not support the Eyefi interlocking function, it is recommended to set a longer time until power save in the settings.
The app used by Xperia is the "FlashAir" app with the same name. With the FlashAir card inserted in the camera and the power turned on, if you enter the initial password after starting the application and communicating, the connection will be successful. The initial password is too easy, so let's change it later.
When the FlashAir card is connected, the photos taken with the digital camera will be displayed at once in the Xperia app. At this point, the image in the FlashAir card is only displayed wirelessly from Xperia, but the thumbnail image is displayed quickly without waiting for a long time. Then, select multiple photos you like and "save" them, and the photos will be transferred to Xperia in a simple way.
This is very convenient because you can put the FlashAir app on your family and friends' smartphones as well as yourself, and pick up and capture the photos you want.
Of course, it is also possible to pick up one photo and display it in a large size. There is a limit to the physical display size of the display on the back of the camera, but you can see even the finest details by looking at the larger screen Xperia.
And it is also possible to open it with the linked application or share it to SNS etc. from the application that can be shared. Is this a standard, or is it the basic usage to upload photos to Twitter, Facebook, and LINE, starting with Instagram? It is important how easy it is to transfer your favorite photos to Xperia when you take your favorite photos with the camera or when you want to let your friends know the photos you took on SNS.
The usability is also different, not only the usage of connecting FlashAir and Xperia one by one, checking the shot image and then transferring it, but also there are cases where you want to transfer the shot image of the digital camera to Xperia more and more.
In such a case, if you check "Automatic update" in the settings, the thumbnail image of the Xperia application will be updated wirelessly almost at the same time as the image is saved in FlashAir by releasing the shutter with a digital camera and you can check it immediately. I can.
This is a bonus feature, but since FlashAir can transfer not only photos but also videos and music files to Xperia, it gives the impression that it is a data storage that can be shared wirelessly that fits inside a digital camera.
Regardless of whether or not to make full use of it, it is recommended for digital camera users with smartphones because it makes me want to share the shot images with my friends if I can transfer images from a digital camera to Xperia, which feels very annoying. ..
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Correction and apology: There was an error in the article when it first appeared. In the text, "If you check the automatic update of settings, the image will be saved to the Xperia storage wirelessly almost at the same time as the image is saved to FlashAir", the correct "Thumbnail image of the Xperia app wirelessly is You can check it immediately after it is updated. " We apologize for the correction. (October 3, 2017)
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