? abut usefulness of WI-FI in a camera body

Whilst I get the remote shooting can be a bonus, people go FF as they see it as an upgrade to APSC. Why would you then want to shoot JPEG ? ? ? Why would you want to show a client an un-edited picture, and why upload un-edited pictures to the Internet ( unless their for private viewing Facebook/Flickr )

h14nha wrote in post #16136711
Why would you then want to shoot JPEG ? ? ? Why would you want to show a client an un-edited picture, and why upload un-edited pictures to the Internet ( unless their for private viewing Facebook/Flickr )

Because like most 5D3 users with eye-fi card, you save raw to CF and small jpeg on the eye-fi

I then whatsapp the photos to my relatives overseas from my phone.

Dirty Murd wrote in post #16136250
Imagine a photo shoot where the subjects mother is sitting nearby. She can hold the iPad and view all of the shots as they are taken, and then make notes of the ones she likes the best. This is just one simple example of the uses for wi-fi.

Cheers!

I had a mom who wanted to chimp my shots once. I foolishly let her and quickly lost control of the shoot because she started dictating what she wanted. Never again.

h14nha wrote in post #16136711
Whilst I get the remote shooting can be a bonus, people go FF as they see it as an upgrade to APSC. Why would you then want to shoot JPEG ? ? ? Why would you want to show a client an un-edited picture, and why upload un-edited pictures to the Internet ( unless their for private viewing Facebook/Flickr )

The OP asked essentially the exact same question in another thread, and I responded with the following with respect to wifi, but it applies to jpeg as well:

The combination of WiFi capability, JPEG capture, and in-camera editing allows the photographer to put out finished photos very quickly. That is enormously useful in many situations. The instant sales scenario that Mike mentioned above is another reason. Photojournalists covering rapidly evolving events is yet another.

I'm in the same boat as Tom. I have found this thread to be very informative and I actually thought a wi-fi camera could connect to the internet and look up webpages!

I do have a question: I shoot solely in RAW. The image on the LCD after I take an image, from what I am to understand, is a JPEG representation of the RAW shot I just took. Will I be able to send a JPEG of the RAW shot to my smartphone, or would I have to start shooting in RAW + JPEG?

birder_herper wrote in post #16137071
I do have a question: I shoot solely in RAW. The image on the LCD after I take an image, from what I am to understand, is a JPEG representation of the RAW shot I just took. Will I be able to send a JPEG of the RAW shot to my smartphone, or would I have to start shooting in RAW + JPEG?

No. You have to shoot RAW + JPEG.

The eye-fi pro x2 can transfer RAW, see - http://www.eye.fi/prod​ucts/prox2#raw, but there's no point imo as your smartphone can't view it anyway, except maybe for emergency backup.

It probably will consume lots of battery on both your camera and smartphone thou, as the RAW files are obviously large.

I've made a WiFi tutorial for EOS 6D, but sorry: it's in german language, but with many pictures.
http://www.mediafire.c​om …8ps/WLAN_Spass_​EOS_6D.pdf

birder_herper wrote in post #16137071
I do have a question: I shoot solely in RAW. The image on the LCD after I take an image, from what I am to understand, is a JPEG representation of the RAW shot I just took. Will I be able to send a JPEG of the RAW shot to my smartphone, or would I have to start shooting in RAW + JPEG?

I shoot only in RAW. When you use the EOS Remote app to download images from the camera to your phone, it automatically converts RAW to S2 (1920x1280) jpg.

Greyson--Thanks! That is good news. Hopefully a wi-fi camera is in my future.

I recently purchased the Eye Fi pro x2 16 gig card to use when I shoot events and print on-site. It will transfer to my laptop via the wi-fi as I shoot and automatically import the S2 jpegs into my Darkroom event software working file and into my slideshow file. It will also automatically send copies of the jpegs to my Smug-Mug account into a gallery I will have set up for the event as proofs. I shoot RAW into my CF that I can use later for photos that are ordered of my web site.

I print the JPEGS at the event with very little changes from how they come from the camera. My wife does the printing. We use a Verizon Puc for our internet access when we don't have a wi-fi at the event. We have 2 DNP Dye-Sub printers, one prints 5x7, the other 8x10s. The Eye-Fi card takes all the card swaps out of the process, the card swaps were a problem.

The Toshiba Flashair, creates its own little hotspot, just like you can with an iPhone 5.
Then you can log into that and you have remote wifi anywhere.
My use, check my exposure and af on my iPad4 - full retina screen is pretty close.
Clients like to be able to have an idea of what is coming down the line.
No they can't have them, and no they can only look at them!
Also good for new or stroppy models - if their face is wrong tell them the problem then show it to them - they all get the point - real quick!

This all sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Anything WiFi with lots of Megabits will take a few seconds to transfer. Add that to the tons of WiFi signals out in the world that your system has to compete with (you are all using the same set of Radio Frequencies like the person next to you in Starbucks doing a Video Call) and the data can get very slow. Yes the buffer in your camera can compensate for some of that but eventually you get to the Brick Wall of WAIT. I carry and use large memory sticks and change them out when they near 90%, then back them up to my laptop. Yes, I am a Semi-Pro Photo guy but I know RF Radio communications all the way around and I am not using WiFi out of my camera for any use.

would love to have wifi when doing landscape pictures, would be great to view the images on a larger screen like the iPad when your In the field. Check that you got the focus perfectly or anything that you didnt notice on the little lcd on the camera.

One handy use I've found for the WiFi is being able to stand in the family photo and compose/focus (and then immediately check to see who blinked) instead of leaving a gap between family members for you to step into and then running back and forth. Not really a good justification for buying a camera, but convenient if you already have it.

Steviewonder1 wrote in post #16138595
This all sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Anything WiFi with lots of Megabits will take a few seconds to transfer. Add that to the tons of WiFi signals out in the world that your system has to compete with (you are all using the same set of Radio Frequencies like the person next to you in Starbucks doing a Video Call) and the data can get very slow. Yes the buffer in your camera can compensate for some of that but eventually you get to the Brick Wall of WAIT. I carry and use large memory sticks and change them out when they near 90%, then back them up to my laptop. Yes, I am a Semi-Pro Photo guy but I know RF Radio communications all the way around and I am not using WiFi out of my camera for any use.

I've not run into any transfer issues using an Eye-Fi card on any of my cameras. And even if it did take more than a few seconds to transfer a photo, so what? Is this what we've become now, waiting more than 5-7 seconds for something to happen is too long? How long does it take to transfer and process the photos from your memory stick? With wifi, it's all done automatically while you do other things.