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Using Android phone as wireless viewfinder for my Canon DSLR?
Your camera is supported by Canon Camera Connect (available for Android on the PlayStore), that can make your phone act as a remote Liveview monitor (among plenty of other things). CCC is free, so you ...
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Why are the the Wifi options for my Canon EOS not showing?
The Canon EOS series disables Wifi if you enable HDR, or certain other functions (there seems to be no logic behind it).
Check your manual for your specific model; Don't rely on common sense, as the ...
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Setup to have photos automatically loaded to the computer
In short: There is no easy solution, that is always on and will not need dedicated setup and extra steps. But I will elaborate common similar solutions. Some of them will not be available on you ...
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Is it practical to transfer thousands of photos via WiFi? What about 4K video?
If your problem is that your computer has only USB-C ports, just get a USB-C to USB adapter or hub.
Transferring 5000 photos via WiFi from any camera capable of recording 4K video will not be ...
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How do I connect a phone to a Nikon D5600 using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi?
Spent some time with Nikon tech support today. They said that I need a software update that is not out yet. I said that they had just released the IOS update so I pulled out my IPad mini, and I was ...
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How to reset the password on a Nikon WU-1a WiFi adapter?
From the manual (http://nikonsupport.eu/europe/Manuals/wu-1b/wu-1a_wu-1b_e5_01.pdf) you can reset the settings:
To restore default settings, keep the WPS button pressed for over 10 seconds and then ...
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Is it practical to transfer thousands of photos via WiFi? What about 4K video?
It depends on a lot of factors you haven't revealed in your question. Among them:
How does one define "practical?" For some that would be "nothing less than the fastest possible speed available by ...
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WiFi dSLR Cameras
but what if I what to connect my camera to a WiFi (with internet) and not the other way around?
Unfortunately, almost no cameras with Wifi work this way. Their target is not a managed, expert-level ...
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Is it practical to transfer thousands of photos via WiFi? What about 4K video?
It seems like your real concern is transfer of files to a computer without a USB A port. You ask about USB C cables for cameras, but, generally, people I know tend to pop the card out and put it in a ...
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Wifi Adapter for Nikon D3300: is better the official one or a SD card with wifi?
Official wifi adapter
Pros:
Allows more than just photo transfer. Nikon's official apps (iOS, Android) will allow remote triggering. Unofficial apps (e.g. qDslrDashboard) will probably give you more ...
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How can I find the Nikon D5300 wifi WPA2 password?
I had the same problem--my Nikon d5300 came with WPA2 security already enabled for the WiFi connection, and I had no idea what the password was. I was connecting with an iPad, so I didn't have the ...
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How useful is wifi on a camera?
It is advantageous for several purposes, mainly remote live view and remote trigger.
For example:
Taking photographs on a tripod: usually when shooting far away objects with long exposure you use ...
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How useful is wifi on a camera?
The answer, as usual, is that it depends. In fact, it depends on multiple factors: what does the camera support doing over wifi? And what kind of situations will your daughter use the camera in?
On ...
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Why doesn't wifi on canon 70D connect to my Android device?
I know this answer is some years late, but I was so tired of fighting to connect mine that I bought one of these They come in a USB-C version as well. Just plug into your mobile device and plug your ...
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How to reset Canon 70D WiFi?
I had to reset my phone’s settings, so I lost my connection to my camera. I was perplexed trying to find the password. Finally I found how to reset the Wi-Fi and then be given a new password.
Select ...
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Wireless transfer of photographs from a camera to a local network or a cloud service
According to EyeFi's Mobi Pro support article and discussion forums, you can configure a Mobi Pro to connect to existing networks (called Infrastructure Support), rather than your computer connecting ...
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Wirelessly transfer photos from camera to a computer?
Note there are also many newer cameras from all major vendors that have WiFi built in (too many to list) or have a specific dongle for WiFi (e.g., the Nikon WU-1a (see this Nikon page). Last I checked ...
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Canon 70D wifi cannot be enabled
One thing to keep in mind, the 70D has been produced in two different versions. A version with and one without WiFi. Ensure you are certain that one of the two cameras you have is not the WiFi-less ...
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Can the Canon 6D connect to a phone's WIFI hotspot and talk to the Canon app on that phone?
Can the Canon 6D connect to a phone's WIFI hotspot and talk to the
Canon app on that phone?
No. In order to use the Canon app on the phone to control the camera, use the phone to see any images ...
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How to continuously store Canon EOS 80D images on a computer over WiFi
Yes there is!
In EOS utility you can go to live shoot, then you can see a panel that looks a bit like this:
In this box the bottom-right icon (the one with the laptop and the down facing arrow) will ...
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Cameras with Android Operating Systems
Cameras with Android have mostly vanished again. The mix between a camera and a phone (mostly combining the negatives of two worlds like high battery use and clunky cases) has not really worked.
There ...
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Cameras with Android Operating Systems
The Android requirement is what makes this impossible. Camera makers have tried in attempt at novelty but it failed due to inefficiency. Android is much heavier than necessary which drains battery ...
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Setup to have photos automatically loaded to the computer
Note that this is the way iPhone and Android handle photo sharing/uploading: It's fully automatic with zero manual steps: 1) take photo 2) wait 3) photo is online. This is the workflow I'd like to ...
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Setup to have photos automatically loaded to the computer
https://image.canon/st/en/features.html
This Canon cloud network service claims to do everything you've listed above - haven't tried it myself yet, but intend to with my 5D4.
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Although I choose to auto-connect, Android Smartphone keeps refusing DSLR's wifi, as no internet found
Android assumes that the user connects to a WiFi network with the purpose of connecting to the internet. Newer versions of Android (specifically 11 and later) have become more intelligent - when an ...
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Can the EOS-M cameras use a wired remote and\or programmed wifi remote?
For the EOS M, you can try the Audio Remote Shot Option via your smartphone. ( Smartphone must have a standard headphone Jack).
You will need to install the Tragic Lantern Firmware on your Camera.
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Can Capture One connect to a Nikon DSLR via WiFi?
It is possible in Lightroom, but not directly. The same method should also work for Capture One.
I use qDslrDashboard to automatically download all pictures taken with the camera. Then Lightroom is ...
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Automatically send raw photos to PC
I'm wondering what serious photographers are using to handle this type of scenario these days?
Canon's 1-Series, 5-Series, 6-series, and 7-series have optional hardware or built-in Wi-Fi to do this. ...
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When I do WiFi transfer, why do only the last few photos taken show up?
It takes far longer to send by WiFi (or BlueTooth) than just popping the card into a laptop or reader. From even a quarter-filled 128 GB card, it likely takes so long that the camera shuts down to ...
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Unable to transfer images and videos over NFC and wifi on sony a6000
I have noticed that NFC isn't always working to well for me either (Sony A77II).
Try opening the app and manually configuring the wifi connection.
After this opening the app using NFC or just opening ...
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