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Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.

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pr1970 Regular Member • Posts: 426
Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.
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Hey

considering purchasing A G5x mk II as I’d like something more flexible than my phone but just as pocketable. Question is my wife is always on at me to share photos and having gone through a fair share of cameras over the years the pain of transferring photos to either phone or pc to edit and then share has been an issue. 
I’ve looked around but couldn’t really find much apart from how to connect via WiFi,etc And I did read the manual about the canon image gateway that is now called image.canon.

I use google photos  and it seems to suggest image.canon will send to this. Question is it automatic, I hate having to mess around switching phone wifi to camera  wifi waiting to connect, disconnect,etc. is it a case of once it’s setup I can send to wifi or phone via Bluetooth,nfc,wifi automatically?

thanks

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OP pr1970 Regular Member • Posts: 426
Re: Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.
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Anyone?

Sue Anne Rush
Sue Anne Rush Senior Member • Posts: 6,285
Re: Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.
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Hello...

pr1970 wrote:

Hey

considering purchasing A G5x mk II as I’d like something more flexible than my phone but just as pocketable. Question is my wife is always on at me to share photos and having gone through a fair share of cameras over the years the pain of transferring photos to either phone or pc to edit and then share has been an issue.
I’ve looked around but couldn’t really find much apart from how to connect via WiFi,etc And I did read the manual about the canon image gateway that is now called image.canon.

I use google photos and it seems to suggest image.canon will send to this. Question is it automatic, I hate having to mess around switching phone wifi to camera wifi waiting to connect, disconnect,etc. is it a case of once it’s setup I can send to wifi or phone via Bluetooth,nfc,wifi automatically?

thanks

IDK - but your G5 mk II can do the things you mention - if you get a nice SD card - just plug it to your computer or an online site like Pbase... Flickr..... smugmug ..... etc..

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RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,427
Re: Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.
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I can fiddle with this and get back to you... I haven't used the auto-transfer feature not the G5X II, but I believe it's there as a DIGIC8-enabled platform. My battery life will probably be horrible though.

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RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,427
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pr1970 wrote:

Hey

considering purchasing A G5x mk II as I’d like something more flexible than my phone but just as pocketable. Question is my wife is always on at me to share photos and having gone through a fair share of cameras over the years the pain of transferring photos to either phone or pc to edit and then share has been an issue.
I’ve looked around but couldn’t really find much apart from how to connect via WiFi,etc And I did read the manual about the canon image gateway that is now called image.canon.

I use google photos and it seems to suggest image.canon will send to this. Question is it automatic, I hate having to mess around switching phone wifi to camera wifi waiting to connect, disconnect,etc. is it a case of once it’s setup I can send to wifi or phone via Bluetooth,nfc,wifi automatically?

thanks

The auto-transfer function available through the canon connect app auto transfers images shot to your smartphone. Getting it to google photos requires another hop. I have no advice regarding the latter. I haven’t played with image.canon; it would presumably need access to internet via your smartphone or a WiFi router to complete the transaction. I would guess image.canon has google photos API access, which probably requires setup. The only thing I do is auto transfer to my phone. The rest, nope, but on paper, it sounds do-able. Some work needed. It’s not auto-magic.

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jackwelch Senior Member • Posts: 1,088
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What you want is the Yongnuo YN455 android camera.

You can install the fb app and whatever android apps and straight share out of camera to desired app.

OP pr1970 Regular Member • Posts: 426
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RLight wrote:

The auto-transfer function available through the canon connect app auto transfers images shot to your smartphone. Getting it to google photos requires another hop. I have no advice regarding the latter. I haven’t played with image.canon; it would presumably need access to internet via your smartphone or a WiFi router to complete the transaction. I would guess image.canon has google photos API access, which probably requires setup. The only thing I do is auto transfer to my phone. The rest, nope, but on paper, it sounds do-able. Some work needed. It’s not auto-magic

thanks

yes I think if it’s fairly automatic to get into the phone then I can let Google photos app just auto upload.

it’s whether you have to mess around turning on Wi-Fi on the camera and then connecting from the camera and then selecting photos. It’s like that on my Sony and it’s more hassle than it’s worth.

so was hoping that canon maybe a bit more automatic background transfers.

RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,427
Re: Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.

pr1970 wrote:

RLight wrote:

The auto-transfer function available through the canon connect app auto transfers images shot to your smartphone. Getting it to google photos requires another hop. I have no advice regarding the latter. I haven’t played with image.canon; it would presumably need access to internet via your smartphone or a WiFi router to complete the transaction. I would guess image.canon has google photos API access, which probably requires setup. The only thing I do is auto transfer to my phone. The rest, nope, but on paper, it sounds do-able. Some work needed. It’s not auto-magic

thanks

yes I think if it’s fairly automatic to get into the phone then I can let Google photos app just auto upload.

it’s whether you have to mess around turning on Wi-Fi on the camera and then connecting from the camera and then selecting photos. It’s like that on my Sony and it’s more hassle than it’s worth.

so was hoping that canon maybe a bit more automatic background transfers.

That's a good summation; more hassle than worth. It's useful though at times.

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OP pr1970 Regular Member • Posts: 426
Re: Sharing photos to photo libraries/social media on G5x mk II.

Just to update

got the G5x mk II yesterday, set it all up easily to use Google photos automatically. I like that I can even connect directly to the camera from my phone when it’s off. I was downstairs and camera upstairs and it turned itself on and I could view photos.

Love this camera so far, quality all round. Only niggle is viewfinder needs to movements to open. But that’s minor gripe.

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