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<div>If I wanted a camera with wifi, I'd want it to be able to connect to any open wifi and send the pictures to my server back home without any intervention from me. </div><div><br></div><div>Also if I flag the phone as stolen, I want all the pictures that it subsequently takes, along with all the metadata, sent to a server that has court admissable evidence features. </div><div><br></div><div>Dale</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:88%;color:#364f67" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Jon Ares via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> <br>Date: 3/29/18 15:58 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft@theatrical.net> <br>Cc: Jon Ares <jonares@arescreative.com> <br>Subject: Re: [SML] Other modern "conveniences" <br><br>On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft<br><stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<br>> Not done. Say you want to transfer pictures to your mobile. Well, you open<br>> the Wireless Connection on the camera, then open the app on the mobile, then<br>> tap connect on the app, then click the connect on the camera, then accept<br>> the connection on both. Believe it or not this process did NOT use<br>> BlueTooth except for some initial sync. It disconnects your mobile from<br>> whatever WiFi you happen to be using and reconnect to the WiFi hotspot in<br>> the camera.<br><br>This horrible-ness is not reserved for your new camera - even the<br>big-boy pro cameras have HORRIBLE smarty-phone interactions. HORRIBLE.<br>Just like yours, you have to go through a thousand contortions to get<br>it to work - and yes, it will drop the connection and you'll have to<br>start over if you so much as turn off one or the other, or forget and<br>switch to your calendar, or.....<br><br>Anything but intuitive, and finicky as hell. Hate them.<br><br>My Canon DSLR will do GPS tagging, my new Sony doesn't have GPS, but<br>has the ability to get the GPS tag from your adjacent phone, but you<br>have to run the app, connect camera to phone, keep it running, don't<br>let the phone try to connect to another wi-fi network, etc (even<br>though the tagging is through bluetooth).... huge disappointment.<br><br>-- <br>Jon Ares<br>www.arescreative.com<br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/><br>Stagecraft mailing list<br>Stagecraft@theatrical.net<br>http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net<br></body></html>