Metpin777 Loc: Fort Wayne, IN

So I have Canon 80d, win 7 premium home edition, inspiron laptop, i know camera has wireless features, question can you transfer photos after a session to lightroom cc for immediate viewing? Havent totally read up on it, was curious if it can be done ? Thank you

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

its got to be faster to plug the SD card into the card reader. WiFi to my IOS gear was so slow I never tried it using my Windows laptop.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Yes, you can. Use auto import in Lightroom.
There are videos on YouTube that show you how to do it.

ATCurry

Note that the camera connects to your wifi network, not directly to your computer. IIRC, there is a specific manual that describes how to set this up. Although there are other uses for connecting the camera to a wifi network, the wifi feature for transferring images to your computer is interesting, but quite underwhelming speed wise. I used it a couple of times, but went back to transferring images via USB cable, as it is at least 3x faster (didn't make any measurements). My preference is to move images this way, rather than removing the card from the camera each time and using a card reader.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

About the only reason to do this would be if you are doing to shoot in your house and someone needs to be watching you as you work and see those images as you shoot. Otherwise, you'd be waiting forever because this is a very slow way to transfer your images. I've done this with jpg images to my iPad during a shoot so that my models manage could see what the end result might look like. I would shoot raw and small jpg at the same time and only allow the small jpg to wirelessly transfer to the iPad so they could see them. There's still quite a lag transferring small jpgs too.

There's no doubt that transferring your image is best done with a card reader. If you use fast memory cards, you should use a fast USB3 card reader.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

While I haven't transferred it that way to Lightroom, I have transferred it using Windows 7. It is much slower than via the USB2 and Canon's EOS Utility I normally use.

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

I have the 80D and do transfer through WiFi using my home network to my laptop. I use the EOS software for the transfer and then the photos are available to whatever PP I want.

A cable is faster and using the card reader in the laptop is the fastest. The reason I frequently use WiFi is I’m not physically moving the SD card and I’m not constantly plugging and unplugging a cable to the camera. Maybe I’m nuts but it’s less wear and tear IMHO.

If I’m going to download a lot of shots then I’ll use the card reader.

I’ve seen some videos that show you can use the camera as an WiFi access point but I haven’t done that yet.