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Want to go back to a Canon Powershot, which one?

Started Mar 5, 2020 | Questions thread
NAwlins Contrarian Veteran Member • Posts: 7,964
Re: Canon shut off WiFi.

Well yoyu asked, so:

I did, and thanks for explaining.

Canon image gateway has been closed and all user accounts deleted. This was part of the system required to upload from the camera SX700HS.

Required? Maybe I'll show my ignorance of how others operate, but to me wifi on a camera was / is all about the easy transfer of photos from the camera to a phone or tablet. I just checked, and the Canon Camera Connect 2.6.10.15 app that I have on my phone is still there in the Google Play store, and it worked fine last I tried it. So in that regard, for me, the Canon wifi is as good as it ever was, maybe better.

To transfer photos to a regular computer, I can't imagine why anyone would not simply pop the SD card out of the camera and into the computer. Both my home desktop and my work laptop have built-in SD card readers, and the photos copy and paste like any other files between any other drives.

So I'm guessing here that Canon image gateway was a way to connect your camera through any Internet-connected wifi network to a Canon photo hosting site, where you could upload your photos and then download / link-to as desired. Is that correct? If so, then that's not a service I'd want to use--but obviously you and presumably others feel differently.

So: sorry for your problem. And while I don't expect Canon to support everything indefinitely, a 2014-15 camera is not so old that Canon should drop support for it. (FWIW, your SX700 is newer than three Powershots I still semi-regularly use, an SX230 HS, an S110, and an S120).

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