cyberbo60 Loc: Greentown, Indiana

Good morning all... I just bought the Canon 1DX Mark II and it’s amazing. I have an iPad Pro and an iMac pro and I was wondering if I can transfer photos from my C𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐭 card to my iPad Pro? I have thunderbolt connections on my iMac Pro and I just ordered a reader that connects to the Thunderbolt connections. I was just wondering if anyone who has experience with CFast cards has done any downloads in the field without going back to your house or studio. Thanks in advance.

Dave327 Loc: Duluth, GA. USA

To your iPad use the Canon Connect app & download with Wi-Fi. Plus, you can use the app to control the camera.

Starphotog

Buy a Canon WFT-E8A. (Wireless Canon file transfer for the XII) Its perfect for what you want and no wires!

Starphotog

Oh I forgot the XII DOES NOT have Wi-Fi so you cant simply use the app without the WFT-E8A! The WFT-E8A IS the Wi-Fi for the XII and yes you can transfer to your IPhone, IPad, laptop etc. you can control the camera remotely using the app too! The device is super useful! To me THAT is Canon’s folly.. to have a $6000 camera that has NO Wi-Fi but does have GPS?????.. you can buy an 80D for 1/6 the price that has Wi-Fi..duh! The WFT-8EA is expensive BUT it works perfectly, especially for what you’re asking!!!

cyberbo60 Loc: Greentown, Indiana

Thank you very helpful

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

I would by a CamRanger on eBay for $200 in excellent condition before the Canon $600 WiFi. I download wirelessly from the CamRanger to a watched file that Lightroom can then import from into Lightroom. Not sure I would want to do this for really large numbers of photos though. Generally I just use a 64 or 128 CFast card in camera and download at night through a card reader to my MacBook Pro. About 5000 RAW images will fit on the 128 CFast card. I don’t think you can use the Canon WiFi piece with an L bracket attached, but that might be a consideration too. I have a RRS L bracket on my mkII pretty much all the time...

cyberbo60 Loc: Greentown, Indiana

What is an RSS L bracket? I am just getting into serious photography. I have been into it for over 30 years but that I am retired I want to go into serious work

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Canon's more pro-oriented cameras do not have built-in WiFi. Instead they are designed to use a much higher performance, much longer range (approx. 400 feet) Wireless File Transfer or "WFT" module , that's purchased separately. Some models (such as 7D Mark II) that have dual memory card slots, where one is an SD type slot, also can use an inexpensive, short range WiFi adapter instead (range approx 25 to 30 feet).

An alternative is CamRanger... which essentially serve the same purpose as the WFT modules, but cost a good deal less. CamRanger has just announced a new "mini" that's got similar range (about 400 feet) and sells for about $200. I haven't yet compared it's other functionality with their older, larger model, which has a range of about 100 feet and sells for about $300.

The CamRanger products are more universal (http://camranger.com/).... can be used with a variety of brands and models of cameras.... where the Canon WFT are more model specific (some can be used with 2 or 3 different models, others are only usable with one particular Canon DLSR). WFT modules are not available for and CANNOT be used with any of the cameras that have built-in WiFi... not sure if there's a conflict or not. However, I do know that the CamRanger modules can be used both with DSLRs both with and without built-in WiFi.

If you are planning to automatically transfer all image files to your phone or a tablet, you may want to set your camera to shoot RAW + small JPEG and only send the latter to the phone or tablet. Otherwise you will likely fill the storage on your device very quickly. If you're only specifying occasional, single images to send to the phone/tablet in the field, that might not be a problem but you still may want the camera to make smaller JPEGs because the larger RAW files are slower to transfer and will need to be processed in some way before they can be shared or used for any purpose. There are mobile versions of Lightroom and other RAW conversion software now, but I can't imagine trying to do image editing and optimization in the field.

I've used WFT in the past, but am not doiong so now. Instead, if I need quick access to the images on a card, I just swap it out with another and use a card reader to transfer the images to my laptop. That's plenty fast for my purposes (and right now I don't need remote control of the camera via my phone or a tablet... but if needed, there are apps for that!).

I have around 20 memory cards.... mostly 16GB and a few 32GB (plus about 50 more older, smaller, slower cards used with previous cameras). These are plenty big for me. 500 to 1000 shots per card (20MP cameras). I don't use single, super large memory cards because I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. It's rare for a card to fail, but it can happen (once to me... in 20+ years total shooting digital, over 15 years almost exclusively... 25,000 to 50,000 images a year). More likely a card may get lost, be corrupted by some error in writing or reading it, or damaged (tho leaving one in a pants pocket and sending it thru the wash doesn't seem to kill 'em!) These are very rare occurrences, but enough that I don't want to risk a whole day's shoot to a single, very large card. I typically fill four to twelve cards... so if anything goes wrong with one, I'll still have most of my work on the others.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

L-brackets are means of attaching a camera to a quick release platform on a tripod head. Usually they use the Arca-Swiss style dovetails. The "L" shape of the bracket allows the camera to be mounted in horizontal/landscape orientation or in vertical/portrait orientation. Most often it's folks who use a ballhead on their tripod, who may want to fit their camera with an L-bracket, rather than "flop" the head to the side to vertically orient the camera.

"RRS" is a company "Really Right Stuff" who manufactures a variety of high quality, expensive camera support gear.

Regardless of manufacturer, L-brackets are model specific.... to allow access to various controls or compartments of the camera without having to remove the bracket. The relatively limited production runs of them makes them pretty pricey.

Personally I hate the bulk that L-brackets add to a camera... not to mention the added cost... and do all I can to avoid them. I use custom Arca-Swiss camera plates on all my cameras, but they're a lot less bulky than L-brackets. But I have a gimbal adapter that I use with my ballheads, and that provides another, simple and neat means of vertically mounting the camera if I want to do so.

The reason an L-bracket was mentioned here is because the WFT modules either plug into the ports on the side of the camera or mount to the bottom (like a battery grip), depending upon the model of WFT and the camera.... and this would preclude fitting an L-bracket to the camera too.

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

An L bracket attaches to the bottom of your camera and allows it to be mounted to a tripod or monopod quickly in either portrait or landscape orientation. The Really Right Stuff is a brand of high quality camera tripods, monopod and accessories...it is really a System in a sense if you are into shooting that uses such tools. The L bracket for the mkII is a 2 piece setup so the L for Portrait orientation can be quickly removed too. I would suggest you take a look st their website sometime as it is also educational about tripod selection and related topics. It is top notch stuff but not inexpensive.

Daryl New Loc: Wellington,New Zealand

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