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I’m excited to receive the Sony a7 iv that I just purchased but disappointed to see how many people hate the Sony photo apps. I am looking for the easiest and best way to transfer RAW and JPEG images to my iPhone from the camera when I’m traveling. Will Sony Imaging Edge get the job done? Do I need a Lightening SD card reader?

Also, I am in almost certainly in the minority here but I really don’t like Adobe products and hope to avoid Lightroom. Since Apple doesn’t get support RAW from theis camera, I may need to use LR for a few months.

Thank you!
 
Imaging Edge won't transfer RAW files, as far as I know. It definitely will not on my a7r III or IV, at least. It's frustrating even with jpegs or really for anything else, for that matter. It depends on a number of non-obvious things, because for example it needs to switch your phone from its regular Wifi AP to connecting to the phone, transfer the jpeg, then switch it back. This process is often unreliable.

Transferring files using a lightning SD card reader works fine in my experience. As you say, you may need to use LR if you want to process raws, and it does work, but it's very slow at least with the large A7r IV raws - slow enough that I tried it a couple of times and haven't bothered since. Might be different with the very latest model iphone, I guess.

If I'm out and about I'll settle for transferring the jpg with Imaging Edge and editing it with the iphone's native image editor; if I want to do anything more complex I'll wait till I'm home.
 
Mblanks said:
I’m excited to receive the Sony a7 iv that I just purchased but disappointed to see how many people hate the Sony photo apps. I am looking for the easiest and best way to transfer RAW and JPEG images to my iPhone from the camera when I’m traveling. Will Sony Imaging Edge get the job done? Do I need a Lightening SD card reader?

Also, I am in almost certainly in the minority here but I really don’t like Adobe products and hope to avoid Lightroom. Since Apple doesn’t get support RAW from theis camera, I may need to use LR for a few months.

Thank you!
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I don’t think it transfers Raw files but no problem transferring JPEGS with Sony Imaging Edge.
 
It was not possible to transfer RAW using the Image Edge on older generation Sony Cameras like the A7III but with the new A7IV (and I guess A1 and A7SIII?) it is possible.

I would not transfer any large amount of images using the app but its definitely nice to have when you want to copy a few and edit them (I'm using LR) on the fly.
 
Qqphot said:
Imaging Edge won't transfer RAW files, as far as I know. It definitely will not on my a7r III or IV, at least. It's frustrating even with jpegs or really for anything else, for that matter. It depends on a number of non-obvious things, because for example it needs to switch your phone from its regular Wifi AP to connecting to the phone, transfer the jpeg, then switch it back. This process is often unreliable.

Transferring files using a lightning SD card reader works fine in my experience. As you say, you may need to use LR if you want to process raws, and it does work, but it's very slow at least with the large A7r IV raws - slow enough that I tried it a couple of times and haven't bothered since. Might be different with the very latest model iphone, I guess.

If I'm out and about I'll settle for transferring the jpg with Imaging Edge and editing it with the iphone's native image editor; if I want to do anything more complex I'll wait till I'm home.
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It does for the A74, the app is completely different
 
My A7iv files are either 35mb (compressed) or 75mb (uncompressed).

Using an iPhone as a storage device seems to be one of the most expensive alternatives. Why?

Wouldn't an iPad be a lot better choice, and with a bigger screen?

Dave
 
Mblanks said:
I’m excited to receive the Sony a7 iv that I just purchased but disappointed to see how many people hate the Sony photo apps. I am looking for the easiest and best way to transfer RAW and JPEG images to my iPhone from the camera when I’m traveling. Will Sony Imaging Edge get the job done? Do I need a Lightening SD card reader?

Also, I am in almost certainly in the minority here but I really don’t like Adobe products and hope to avoid Lightroom. Since Apple doesn’t get support RAW from theis camera, I may need to use LR for a few months.

Thank you!
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It was quite awhile back (4 years almost) but I copied jpegs from a trip into my iPhone folder then sync with iTunes.
If you want to try adobe Lightroom and photoshop plus in the market for an ssd or card there are often 6 month free trials that come with them.
 
Mblanks said:
I’m excited to receive the Sony a7 iv that I just purchased but disappointed to see how many people hate the Sony photo apps. I am looking for the easiest and best way to transfer RAW and JPEG images to my iPhone from the camera when I’m traveling. Will Sony Imaging Edge get the job done? Do I need a Lightening SD card reader?

Also, I am in almost certainly in the minority here but I really don’t like Adobe products and hope to avoid Lightroom. Since Apple doesn’t get support RAW from theis camera, I may need to use LR for a few months.

Thank you!
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Some of these apps may allow editing the raw files once you get them on the phone - some only work on the raw files from the phone camera. Take a read through the list, one or two of these might solve your editing issue. The transfers appear to be supported on the a7 iv, but I can’t test that as I own the a7r iii.

https://www.imore.com/best-apps-editing-raw-files
 
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Maybe a7iv has newer software than my a7riii, but I Just tried it and it’s not that good. And it said transfer was only 2mb??

so will only use if I need as a remote control for the camera.



In past I had a iPad and lighting reader that was so quick. Will probably go back to that if traveling but just using laptop now.
 
k-photo1 said:
Maybe a7iv has newer software than my a7riii, but I Just tried it and it’s not that good. And it said transfer was only 2mb??

so will only use if I need as a remote control for the camera.

In past I had a iPad and lighting reader that was so quick. Will probably go back to that if traveling but just using laptop now.
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Yes, the A7IV has new software/hardware that supports RAW.

But you should be able to transfer large than 2mb files using your A7RIII, you just need to change settings in the app. Switch from 2M to “original” I believe its called (still only JPG though).
 
k-photo1 said:
Maybe a7iv has newer software than my a7riii, but I Just tried it and it’s not that good. And it said transfer was only 2mb??

so will only use if I need as a remote control for the camera.

In past I had a iPad and lighting reader that was so quick. Will probably go back to that if traveling but just using laptop now.
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I use the a7r III and it transfers larger files I have this option selected

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I did something similar on a trip last fall. Using A7RIII I connected to Samsung Galaxy S21 with USB 3 type C cord. Using the Files App I was able to transfer to a file on my phone. For edits on the phone I used a free app Adobe Photo-Shop Express. Also was able to back up photos to an external drive connected by USB type C. But edits where very basic.
 
is the camrote app still being developed?

Camrote

camrote.app camrote.app

I seem to recall raw transfer as being a ‘feature’ though I never tried it

looks to be available at the App Store though it is a paid app

EDIT :: OK, maybe it's still available and not being further delevoped ?? , but for a while there was quite a buzz about it.

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Mblanks said:
I’m excited to receive the Sony a7 iv that I just purchased but disappointed to see how many people hate the Sony photo apps. I am looking for the easiest and best way to transfer RAW and JPEG images to my iPhone from the camera when I’m traveling. Will Sony Imaging Edge get the job done? Do I need a Lightening SD card reader?

Also, I am in almost certainly in the minority here but I really don’t like Adobe products and hope to avoid Lightroom. Since Apple doesn’t get support RAW from theis camera, I may need to use LR for a few months.

Thank you!
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C-M-S said:
k-photo1 said:
Maybe a7iv has newer software than my a7riii, but I Just tried it and it’s not that good. And it said transfer was only 2mb??

so will only use if I need as a remote control for the camera.

In past I had a iPad and lighting reader that was so quick. Will probably go back to that if traveling but just using laptop now.
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Yes, the A7IV has new software/hardware that supports RAW.

But you should be able to transfer large than 2mb files using your A7RIII, you just need to change settings in the app. Switch from 2M to “original” I believe its called (still only JPG though).
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Yes just jp, but will try again with those settings. Thanks.
 
With my iPad and Pixel i just connect the camera directly to the device via USB-C and copy the image files I want over. You'd need a USB-C to lightning cable as your phone lacks a usb-c port, but it should work the same
 
Thanks for the input. actually bought a USB-C to lightening cable to try that with the iPhone and it doesn’t work. USB-C/USB-C cable to my Apple desktop works great.



I finally figured out a way to wirelessly transfer raw images to the iPhone, but each image takes 1-2 minutes. So, it would be very nice to have a cable solution. I called Sony and apparently, this only exists for Android phones.



it’s too bad that there’s not some automated cloud solution that will just dump the photos onto your phone iPad and desktop at the same time whenever you’re in Wi-Fi range.
 
So what was the work around you finally figured out. I’d still like to transfer raw files even if it takes a minute to get it onto the iPad.
 
Just returned from a two-week Alaska cruise. Using a card reader with a Lightning connector worked fine on both my iPhone and iPad. But those 42mp ARW files filled up the memory real fast.

I set the A7Riii to save JPGs to the second card slot as another safety backup.
 
Were you able to import individual shots or you have to get a batch of them? What program recognizes the card reader? I use Lightroom.
 
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