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All I want is a dSLR that, when I take a picture on the camera with its button, moments later, the image is in Apple Photos.
by doctorpangloss 2y ago
All I want is a dSLR that, when I take a picture on the camera with its button, moments later, the image is in Apple Photos.
- jsheard 2y agoThere used to be SD cards with built-in WiFi which could sync photos automatically, but the main player in that space (Eye-Fi) went out of business and I don't think anyone else has stepped up to make a version of that which works with modern cloud services. Not enough demand now that smartphones have obliterated the consumer camera market, I guess. Project idea: figure out a way to cram an ESP32 into an SD card.
- bitwrangler 2y agoI used Eye-Fi for several years and enjoyed it. There was some opensource software to use it on a private LAN. Searching 'wifi sdcard' and I found several vendors still making those cards, but I haven't used any of the newer ones.
- Palomides 2y agoall of the high end cameras have integrated wifi now
- jsheard 2y agoIt didn't even occur to me to check that but duh of course they do, everything has integrated WiFi nowadays. Does the software actually work well or is it a jankfest?
- tw04 2y agohttps://www.dpreview.com/news/4518014471/capture-one-adds-wired-and-wireless-tethering-to-its-ipad-app https://www.dpreview.com/news/4518014471/capture-one-adds-wi... Seems like it works well (I don't have any gear new enough to test myself). Supported cameras here: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002718118-Camera-models-and-RAW-files-supported-by-Capture-One https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000271811...
- mardifoufs 2y agoIt's a complete jankfest on my Fuji camera. The app is super weird, the cam works more like an access point (if you want any degree of reliability), and so many other weird problems. Maybe a firmware update fixed that but the app is still beyond bad.
- Nereuxofficial 2y agoThere are two apps from Fuji and i heard the newer one works better but the older one does not work for transferring pictures 70% of the time and unfortunately my camera is not supported in the new "Fujifilm X App"
- carleton 2y agoXapp works as well as I believe Apple lets them on iOS. You need to connect via the app, tap an iOS “Join WiFi” dialog, then 30-70% through the transfer it will stop and you need to tap again “This WiFi doesn’t have Internet, disconnect or continue?” and then it succeeds most of the time. Don’t even get me started on Fujifilm refusing to support Geotagging unless the iOS app is in the foreground though. That is entirely Fuji’s fault and their design choice because apparently users complained that “it was tracking my location when the app is closed” uh duh that’s how geotagging works, turn off location if you don’t use it.
- radicality 2y agoI have both the XT4 and the XH2. I’m still surprised that in 2024 these big cameras don’t have a built-in something that does gps and sets the time correctly. The current time is floating in the air in radio waves. And gps units are small and with many low power options. Super annoying when you’re traveling around across timezones and suddenly all your photos are in the wrong time zone if you didn’t update it. Or if there is daylight savings update… And for gps, even a ballpark 1km gps range would be better than nothing.
- atkbrah 2y agoThe new app (XApp) is an improvement to the original one which worked maybe 15% of the time. Having to join your phone to the camera wifi is still a requirement
- gsliepen 2y agoOlympus OM-D E-M1: jank. It can only do a private ESSID created by the camera itself. There is an Android app from Olympus which works well enough if you just want to manually remote control the camera. Some people have found out parts of the protocol and have written open source tools to download images from the camera. Apparently that goes via HTTP, not HTTPS, so you have to place all your trust in the security of WPA.
- mschuster91 2y agoSony's is a fuckfest, and so is pretty much everyone because Android sucks as well. The main problem is Bluetooth is dog slow, so they use temporary Wifi networks which have to be manually confirmed twice (once in the app, once in the Android UI)... and the wifi obviously doesn't have internet, so after a short time Android nags you to disconnect because the wifi it's connected to doesn't have internet.
- ge0rg 2y agoThis is all true, but the camera vendors are adding insult to injury with their ugly half broken apps that mostly don't work on top of that.
- xp84 2y agoHot take: All these are terrible, but not because the camera makers suck, but because there's no non-sucky way to do the thing we all would want: What we want: Snap picture, picture is sent over high-bandwidth link to phone Analysis: Can't be Bluetooth, also it's foolish to assume most pics are in wifi range of an access point, so it needs to be Wi-Fi Direct, like AirDrop is: Able to be performed with or without the parties being ON a network. The parties just p2p transfer the file. More analysis: What would this take? 1. The blessings of the platform owners, at minimum Apple and other handset makers, probably Google too. The platform owners would need to provide: 1. Ability to make ad-hoc wi-fi direct connections with your other devices. APIs etc 2. Ability to either have your app running in the background, or be automatically silently launched in the background, to receive the image and add it to Photos. No such abilities exist. All the cheesy hotspot things that they're doing is literally the only way to achieve such a goal without the cooperation of gatekeepers like Apple.
- mschuster91 2y agoThe (for me) most interesting thing is: why the fuck has no one managed to reverse engineer AirDrop and AirPlay yet, in a way that's mass market compatible? Like, there is OpenDrop but that is dead since five years [1], it was a code dump by some researchers, and there are no client implementations to interact with Apple servers for getting keys, or with registering Find My devices... [1] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
- radicaldreamer 2y agoLeica FOTOS app is excellent (and also transfers tethered for even faster speeds), but it’s also the most expensive ecosystem to be in.
- ofcrpls 2y agoAs someone on the Q Typ116 that this app doesn't support, it's the primary reason I don't use the camera as much as I would like.
- 20after4 2y agoI managed to get my canon R6 to upload to an FTP server. Using their smartphone app was a nightmare because it constantly disconnects and it requires the phone to use the camera as a hotspot (and thus disconnect from any other wifi network for the duration of the connection.) Worst of all, the thing is so slow as to be nearly unusable. The UX for uploading to FTP isn't great but it's relatively more tolerable.
- nucleardog 2y agoI was still able to pick up some Toshiba FlashAir cards relatively cheaply. No idea what the deal was, but some seller in India had hundreds of them for sale really cheap. I have no idea what the original FlashAir software looks like. Never even occurred to me to try it—just assumed it would be a nightmare. But it works fine in my old Nikon with PhotoSync on iOS!
- ChickeNES 2y agoSomeone already did: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/4001119021440.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/4001119021440.html
- yorick 2y agoThis should be possible, it already exists for Google Photos: https://www.stg-uploader.xyz/ https://www.stg-uploader.xyz/
- ge0rg 2y agoThe Samsung NX1 and NX500 running Linux can be pretty easily scripted to upload JPEGs or RAWs to any online service, given that you have a Wi-Fi network with you. Unfortunately they are a decade old and rare on the second hand market.
- m463 2y agoI think canon DSLRs with wifi can ftp. They can also connect to phones/tablets/websites but you need apps/services. ftp direct from camera: https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0300024975/01/eos5d-mk4-wff-im-en.pdf https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0300024975/01/eos5d-mk4-wff-i... page 113 link is: EOS 5D Mark IV (WG) Wi-Fi (Wireless Communication) Function Instruction Manual
- m463 2y agoto be clear, that was not a random link, it was the link on the canon website
- tomatocracy 2y agoYep. This is what I do with my r5. Connect to Wi-Fi network, configured to auto upload to ftp. Unfortunately no sftp support (but it will do ftps). It’s ok, but can sometimes be a bit unreliable. What’s more annoying is that automatically adding geolocation data for photos requires a Bluetooth link to a phone via their app which seems pretty unreliable and sometimes messes up the ftp uploads. Older canon dslrs had built in GPS.
- ents 2y agoDoable with USB-C to USB-C cable from Camera into iPhone into Capture One app
- cjk2 2y agoNikon Z series with Snapbridge are as good as you get on that front. They peer with WiFi or Bluetooth. You can actually remote control and view the camera with your iPad if you want!
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