Sending still images and movies from a camera to a smartphone (Wi-Fi function)

Article ID: ART137588 | Date published: 05/13/2015 | Date last updated: 11/16/2015
 

Description

Sending still images and movies from a camera to a smartphone (Wi-Fi function)

Solution

Using a wireless LAN, you can send and receive still images and movies from a camera to a smartphone.
The connection to the smartphone is made using the wireless LAN's infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode*.
*Please note that ad hoc connections can only be performed on iOS devices.
NOTE

Connecting the camera to a smartphone wirelessly

Connect to the smartphone over the wireless LAN.

1. Press the <Playback> (
) button on the camera.

2. Touch (
).


3. Touch (
).


4. Touch [Add a Device].

NOTE
  • If you register a smartphone, that smartphone's name will appear on the screen in step 4. From the second time onward, select the smartphone's name to make the connection.

5.
Select [Ad Hoc], and then
touch [Next].


6. The following screen appears.

Operating the smartphone, connect to the access point shown on the camera's screen.
Choose the displayed SSID (network name) from the smartphones Wi-Fi setting menu. Enter the WEP key displayed on the camera screen into the password field on the smartphone.

7. Start CameraWindow on the smartphone.
NOTE
  • Once the smartphone is recognized on the camera, the device connection screen will be displayed on the camera.

8. Choose a smartphone to connect to.


9. The following screen appears.

Choose [Yes] when you want to view camera images on a smartphone, and choose [No] when you dont want the images to be viewed on a smartphone.
Choose [Yes] to use a smartphone to send images from the camera to the smartphone.

10. The following screen appears.


11. Once you have connected to the smartphone, a screen like the one below will appear.

NOTE
  • To add multiple smartphones, repeat the above procedures starting from step 4.
  • To change privacy settings for smartphones added to the list, choose the smartphone whose settings you want to change from [Edit a Device] in step 4, and then choose [View Settings].
  • To end the connection, touch the (
    ) in the top-right corner of the screen, and then touch [OK] on the confirmation screen.
  • When a connection destination is set using the Touch Actions setting, you can send images from the next time by just performing touch operations without needing to perform the connection operation again.
  • See the Camera User Guide for details on Touch Action settings.

Sending one image at a time to a smartphone

12. If you touch [Send this image], the image will be sent.

To select the image you want to send, touch the left/right edge of the image or drag right or left across the screen to choose an image.
To make the image smaller before sending it, touch either (
) or (
) and select the desired option.

13. The following screen appears.

After the image has been sent to the smartphone and the [Image sent] message appears, return to step 12.

Sending multiple images to a smartphone

14. Touch [Select and send].


15. The following screen appears.

When you touch an image you want to send, (
) will appear.
Touching the image again will deselect it, and (
) will disappear.
If you move the zoom lever toward (
), the camera will switch to single image display. You can also select images by touching the left/right edge of the screen or by dragging right or left across the screen.
After you finish choosing images, touch [OK].

16. The following screen appears.

To make the image smaller before sending it, touch either (
) or (
) and select the desired option.
If you touch [Send], the images will be sent to the smartphone.
After the [Image sent] message appears, return to step 12.


SIMS Doc Id

8201384300

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