Friday 11 October 2013

How to transmit pictures from my digital camera to my Kindle fire hd without having a PC?

The brief answer is no, you can’t. I’m sad, but that is just how it is.


On the other hand, all hope is not lost despite this dreadful news. There are two main avenues you may go down.


The first is to simply message the photos to yourself and download them to your Kindle. This method works fine if you simply need a few holiday snaps or pictures of the little nephew’s birthday or what, but its not much use for the large amount of photos.


The next method is a little more refined. With a hard drive, you are able to transfer photos comparatively easily from one device to another, this will allow you to transfer a greater amount of photos and will likely take a lot less time.


The best option, I think, is likely the second, especially if you hunt down the “eye-Fi” SD card, fitting with most up-to-date cameras (though, as always, it’s certainly best to double check). Sime, of The Digital Photography Educate blog, was clearly impressed. In his review, he said,


“With the Eye-Fi X2 card, I could upload full res photos from my NEX 5  to my iPhone and then do what I wanted with them [Instagram / Facebook / Flickr etc] when you’re using the X2 card, you can connect the camera directly to your iPhone / iPad without having to use a Wifi router etc… You can also use the Eye-Fi app on your phone [iPhone and Android] to upload your images to your computer / Flickr etc. Yep – works, works well”.


He then gave an individual account of that Eye-Fi’s usefulness, which I’ve re-printed below.


“My wife and I went to the zoo with our almost-three year old a couple of weeks back and I had a look through her images afterwards, realising that there were images from her camera dating back to… well, when I gave her the camera! She’s currently using a 32GB SDHC card in there, and just leaves everything on the card! When I asked if she had copied any on to her computer, I was told “That’s too hard / I don’t have time / Where’s the cable” (Yes, a combo of the three, I didn’t press for details…;) So – I cunningly swapped out the existing card for the Eye-Fi card, loaded the app on her Macbook and added it to start when her computer starts, but to hide in the background (This is an option in the application) so basically, the camera connects to her laptop whenever it can and copies the photographs across – they are there, ready to use. Guess who won ‘awesome technical husband of the week award?’ (Obviously a lot of you are tech savvy, but well… )”


In no way let it be said that I disregard a question of yours without producing a proposal of my own.


If you’ll allow me a quick tangent, there is the line in a single of those beloved books of my teenage years ‘Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood & Sweatsocks’ by Mick Foley (which is the great book about life in general, even if you are not a wrestling fan) where Mick says, “I had always felt that it is not good enough to shoot something down – It was best to have a solution”. Take that and work with it, reprobates.



How to transmit pictures from my digital camera to my Kindle fire hd without having a PC?

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