Wireless Functions
- Q7
- What can I do with "Auto Send"?
- A7
- With Auto Send, you can have the camera automatically send all images as they are shot to a smartphone that has been paired with it by Bluetooth. Or you can have images sent after you check them.
If there is no connection between the camera and smartphone when the images are shot, they will be sent as soon as a connection is established.
Procedure
1. On the camera, press [Wireless] button.
This will display the wireless mode screen.
• Pressing the wireless button again will return to the screen that was displayed before the wireless mode screen.
2. On the camera, use the <up>, <down>, <left>, and <right> keys to select “Wireless settings” and then press [SET].
This will display the wireless settings screen.
3. On the camera, use the <up> and <down> keys to select “Auto Send” and then press [SET].
4. Select “Auto Send All” or "Confirm first" and then press [SET].
5. When the settings are the way you want, press [SET].
• Pressing [MENU] cancels the currently displayed settings and returns to the wireless mode screen.
6. On the camera, enter the REC mode and shoot.
• Images that are sent will be marked by a sent icon.
This will establish a wireless LAN connection between your camera and smartphone, and send the snapshot you just recorded to the smartphone.
NOTE
• Both a Bluetooth and wireless LAN connection are required between the camera and smartphone to auto send camera images.
• You can specify the type of images to be sent using the Auto Send File Settings item on the wireless settings screen.
Options are: snapshots and movies, only snapshots, selfie, portrait, or non-portrait.
• The maximum movie size for a send operation is 100 MB.
• You can specify the size of the image sent to the smartphone using "Resize before send".
3M Images are converted to 3M size before being sent.
• If an original image is 3M size or smaller, it is sent without resizing.Original (Off) Images are sent in the pixels size they were originally recorded. • You can use the smartphone apps below to view snapshots after sending them.
- iPhone: Camera Roll of the Photos app
- Android terminal: Gallery, Photo, or another photo browser app
• Auto Send is disabled while the camera’s Airplane Mode setting is “On”.
• Auto Send become re-enabled when the setting is changed to “Off”.
• Images you shoot while Auto Send is enabled (All) are sent to the smartphone, even if you disable Auto Send before the images are sent. If you want to cancel send of pending Auto Send images that have already been shot, unpair the camera from the phone.
• Images shot while the camera’s Auto Send setting is “All” or “Confirm first” will be sent to the smartphone, even if the app’s Auto Send setting is changed to “Off” before the images are sent.
• When “All” or “Confirm first” is selected for Auto Send, a message will appear whenever you try to delete a file or turn off the camera.
• If you try to turn off the camera while there are unsent images in memory, a message will appear to alert you.
If you want the images to be sent, leave the camera on until the send operation is complete. Pressing the camera’s [ON/OFF](Power) again will turn off the camera.
• If connection between the camera and smartphone is terminated while there are unsent images, a warning message will appear and then the camera will automatically turn off after about one minute.
In this case, the camera will try to send the images again after it is turned back on.
• If the camera turns off due to low battery power while there are pending Auto Send images, the pending images will be sent the next time the camera is turned on after charging.
This is true as long as the pairing relationship between the camera and smartphone is maintained.
• If the camera is unable to establish a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) connection for one minute because the smartphone's Wi-Fi is disabled (OFF) or for some other reason, the camera will autmatically stop wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) processes in order to reduce power consumption.
If you want to Auto Send previously recorded images to the smartphone, enable smartphone Wi-Fi and then turn the camera off and then back on again. This will re-execute Auto Send.
• Perform the following operation to access settings that let you specify snapshots only , or both snapshots and movies as what should be sent by Auto Send: Wireless button
Wireless settings Auto Send File Settings.
• Images recorded with Continuous Shutter and Interval Snapshot cannot be sent using Auto Send.
• The image data below is not sent automatically to the smartphone.
– CS images
– Interval Snapshot images