Does A77 do PictBridge?

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Thomas Karlmann
Thomas Karlmann Senior Member • Posts: 2,766
Does A77 do PictBridge?

I just found an Event Printer I like -- but in order to transmit wirelessly it requires PictBridge. No mention of Pictbridge in the manual. Anyone else ever look for this feature or use it with A77?
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Thomas Karlmann
OP Thomas Karlmann Senior Member • Posts: 2,766
Allow me to rephrase ....

How do Sony Axx owners do event photography? The printer I am looking at requires Pictbridge for wireless transfer of images to the printer. Is there another way to do this that I am missing?
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Peter McNeill Senior Member • Posts: 1,554
Re: Allow me to rephrase ....

My A65 uses USB for pictbridge so I assume the other models are the same. Maybe using a eye-fi sd card would work for the Wi-Fi.
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acdtech Contributing Member • Posts: 623
Re: Allow me to rephrase ....

All modern digital cameras have this feature. This does not include cell phones.

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Thomas Karlmann
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Re: Allow me to rephrase ....

acdtech wrote:

All modern digital cameras have this feature. This does not include cell phones.

Hmm, I did a text search for all the camera manuals I have. Canon, Fuji & Nikon all have very detailed instructions on the use of Pictbridge going as far back as the Minolta A2, the Nikon D70, and the Canon EOS 10D -- they all have detailed sections in their manuals regarding PictBridge as do the Fuji S3 and S5 manuals. Sony has no mention of PictBridge at all in either the A77 nor the Nex7 Manuals.

Is there an Addendum somewhere? Have any A77 owners used Pictbridge? Presently, I own no Sony Cameras to check this out on.
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Thomas Karlmann
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Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

I found this in the Sony NEX7 Manual:

Auto Establishes a Mass Storage or MTP connection
automatically, in accordance with a computer or other USB
devices to be connected. Windows 7 computers are
connected in MTP, and its unique functions are enabled to
use.
MTP Establishes an MTP connection between the camera, a
computer, and other USB devices. Windows 7 computers are
connected in MTP, and its unique functions are enabled to
use. In the case of other computers (Windows Vista/XP, Mac
OS X), the AutoPlay Wizard appears, and the still images in
the recording folder on the camera are imported to the
computer.
Mass Storage Establishes a Mass Storage connection between the camera, a
computer, and other USB devices. Standard mode.

NO mention of PTP, PictBridge anywhere ! Then I looked all this up in David Busch's books (NEX7 and A77 -- that I just got) -- and sure enough PictBridge is mentioned there -- much as you guys were saying. Wow, Sony really seems to try really hard not to provide the info required here!

Comments anyone?
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Gregg Helleren
Gregg Helleren Contributing Member • Posts: 608
Re: Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

Trolling for comments? Tut tut. It is widely known that Sony provide VERY BASIC instruction manuals (regardless of what equipment it is). That is why books from Gary Friedman and David Busch are so popular.

Seriously, how hard is it to use PictBridge? The Sony A77 tech specs state that the camera is PictBridge compatible. You plug in the USB cable, set the PTP mode and that's it.

I'll have to look at my brother's Canon manual to see the "pages and pages" of description about a technology that is supposed to be plug&play.
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Gregg Helleren
Gregg Helleren Contributing Member • Posts: 608
Re: Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

The PTP mode (referred to by Sony as MTP) is also compatible with the Microsoft "Device Stage" feature of Windows 7. Read more here -
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/device-management
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Thomas Karlmann
OP Thomas Karlmann Senior Member • Posts: 2,766
Re: Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

Gregg Helleren wrote:

Trolling for comments? Tut tut. It is widely known that Sony provide VERY BASIC instruction manuals (regardless of what equipment it is). That is why books from Gary Friedman and David Busch are so popular.

Seriously, how hard is it to use PictBridge? The Sony A77 tech specs state that the camera is PictBridge compatible. You plug in the USB cable, set the PTP mode and that's it.

I'll have to look at my brother's Canon manual to see the "pages and pages" of description about a technology that is supposed to be plug&play.

Where did you see the reference by Sony on PictBridge?

I have never used PictBridge. Unsure about how many 'pages' are there -- I just know I got about 3/4-page of hits in Adobe Reader when I searched for "PictBridge" -- for each camera I specified.

Yes, to the other poster -- sony has changed the name of the 'alternate' USB port function to make one think it has something to do with Windows 7 only. How am I to know that this functionality still affords PictBridge use when so many other cameras are specifying PictBridge by name for that port?
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OntarioJohn
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Re: Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

Gee guys and gals.

Pictbridge is as old as lassie. Camera to printer. Has to be on both ends. No computer.

I wonder if raw or cooked rare is better, less smoke if you can send a nice poster size shot from you ovf canon. They have tech specs.

This is part of an adopted standard.

Maybe when you get home from starBucks your 77 page manual waiting in the tray except tip ran out of ink.

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OntarioJohn
OntarioJohn Senior Member • Posts: 1,959
Re: Sony Manuals do not know Pictbridge ...

Just google

Wiki pictbridge

And back away from your ...22 year old manual. Lol

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yomasa Regular Member • Posts: 394
Re: Does A77 do PictBridge?

The Sony a77 will not support PictBridge, I guess I have to go buy a 5d Mrk II again.

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crimliar Forum Member • Posts: 87
Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

The one thing you need to be aware of when connecting the A77 to a PictBridge printer is that you need shoot your images in .jpg format.

yomasa Regular Member • Posts: 394
Re: Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

Do you know What PictBridge is?

When PictBridge is supported by your camera It allows you to send images to the printer while your shooting an event. The A77 has know Pictbridge code in it's firmware. When you plug it in to a printer it gives you a MTP message, thats it.
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Tubal Contributing Member • Posts: 709
Re: Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

MTP is PTP.

PTP stands for Picture Transfer Protocol. PictBridge is an extension of this PTP.

MTP stands for Media Transfer Protocol, which is kind of PTP 2.0.

Every PTP method/extension should work with MTP.

When you're camera goes into MTP mode, it's looking for a printer (or a computer, or other USB device)

I would assume that you connect your camera to your printer via USB, and change the transfer protocol to MTP, it should work.

The alternate solution would be to get a printer with a built in card reader (most have them these days) and print them that way. And like was previously posted, pictbridge and printers with card readers will need a jpg image. They won't be able to read RAW.

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yomasa Regular Member • Posts: 394
Re: Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

Your incorrect, The PictBridge standard allows you (the Camera) to print directly to the printer. When you plug the camera to a pictbridge printer the camera will detect it and give many pictbridge options to print your image. On the Canon 5d mrk II, A button lights up after you take a photo, if you press it; it sends the image to the printer. The a77 will not do this and no sony SLT will do this. The Sony SLT cameras are no good for event printing. Not sure why sony did not include this functionality for the SLT. The Sony dSlr do support PictBridge (a900)

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Thomas Karlmann
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Re: Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

Has anyone actually used the A77 to print to a PictBridge printer? Lots of conjecturing here.
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Tubal Contributing Member • Posts: 709
Re: Oh yes it does support PictBridge!

I just tried it on my a77, and it doesn't work.

It says "usb device not supported" on my HP C6300, which is supposedly pictbridge capable.

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