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Canon Image Gateway Is Pointless...?

Started Jul 1, 2015 | Discussions thread
AnthonyL Veteran Member • Posts: 3,686
Re: Canon Image Gateway Is Pointless...?

rtg20 wrote:

Hi, I have a Digital Rebel T6s. I thought the Canon Image Gateway feature would be cool (upload photos directly from the camera to a bunch of different web services) but it seems like NONE of them support photos in RAW mode in full resolution.

Am I missing something? Why would Canon develop such potentially useful functionality, and then cripple it with arbitrary restrictions...?

Not arbitrary as others have explained:

https://www.cig.usa.canon.com/cu/en_US/support.html

The Online Photo Album does not support RAW images; the images must be JPEG format only. Please be sure to convert all images to JPEG format before uploading to the Online Photo Album.

I suspect that the RAW file size would not give rise to acceptable transfer speeds and battery life.

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