Easiest way to get DSLR (Canon 80D) to replicate photos to cloud like phone does? OTG/Android?

Messages
18
Reaction score
5
Hi all,

I take 100s of photos daily of my family and then edit them every night upstairs for sharing with the larger family. If I do this on a phone, it's an easy and efficient workflow. My DSLR is a hot mess, though.

I would love to grab today's photos off my Canon 80D, push them to Dropbox (Google Drive or any other cloud provider), wait for several minutes and then be able to access them from multiple machines. Is there an easy way to do this? I don't have a computer near my camera. Right now I leave the camera near where I use it and then pull out the sdcard, put it in the computer, and hope I remember to put it back in the camera before I need it again. It's a very error-prone process.

From what I've seen, the 80D doesn't have a sync function. You need to pick images manually and upload them. Am I mistaken? Did I miss something?

I have an android phone with an OTG cable and I can read the card via a cardreader on my phone, but haven't yet discovered an app that easily syncs the card to Dropbox (or any other provider). Since the images are in the 100s, it would be nice if it was easy to use, for example select an entire day's images instead of selecting each image individually.

Any advice where I should start looking?

Much appreciated!

Steven
 
Hi, I take family pictures exclusively and in RAW. I import them to Lightroom CC where I process them. The original raw files are backed up to my NAS. Then I export them from Lightroom as Jpegs and import them to photos for Mac where there are shared in iCloud. I only use photos to share the Jpegs to my family and play slideshows on Apple TV. iCloud photo lib has to be turned on. I put the SD card from my 6D into my Mac to get the Raw's into lightroom
 
Last edited:
Hi all,

I take 100s of photos daily of my family and then edit them every night upstairs for sharing with the larger family. If I do this on a phone, it's an easy and efficient workflow. My DSLR is a hot mess, though.
Your DSLR does not have an operating system to allow this.
I would love to grab today's photos off my Canon 80D, push them to Dropbox (Google Drive or any other cloud provider), wait for several minutes and then be able to access them from multiple machines. Is there an easy way to do this? I don't have a computer near my camera. Right now I leave the camera near where I use it and then pull out the sdcard, put it in the computer, and hope I remember to put it back in the camera before I need it again. It's a very error-prone process.

From what I've seen, the 80D doesn't have a sync function. You need to pick images manually and upload them. Am I mistaken? Did I miss something?

I have an android phone with an OTG cable and I can read the card via a cardreader on my phone, but haven't yet discovered an app that easily syncs the card to Dropbox (or any other provider). Since the images are in the 100s, it would be nice if it was easy to use, for example select an entire day's images instead of selecting each image individually.

Any advice where I should start looking?

Much appreciated!

Steven
Best you can do is link it to your smartphone with the Canon Camera Connect app to download to the phone, and then upload to the 'net from the smartphone. The camera does not have this capability on it's own.

Mark
 

Keyboard shortcuts

Back
Top