2. Connection and importing images

The target image must be imported to the smartphone before it can be used for FTP transfer, caption editing, and so on, in the app.

Import wirelessly

Import wiredly

  • USB tethering (ILCE-1/9M3/7RM5/7SM3/7CR/7CM2/7M4 and smartphones with USB Power Delivery (PD) support only)
    Your smartphone’s tethering or personal hotspot function is used to connect via a USB cable.

  • Ethernet tethering (ILCE-1/9M3/9M2/9/7RM5/7SM3/7CR/7CM2/7M4 and Android 11 or later only)
    Your smartphone’s tethering or personal hotspot function is used to connect via a LAN cable.

  • USB mass storage connection
    Your camera connects as a mass storage device via a USB cable to import images.

Import using linked apps

  • Import using linked apps
    You can import images that have been imported to your smartphone using a linked app (Creators’ App or Imaging Edge Mobile) to Transfer & Tagging.

To automatically embed previously created IPTC metadata when importing images

Before importing, select the IPTC metadata that you would like to add in [Setting] > [Import] > [Embed IPTC metadata when importing.] For more information, see "3.3. Adding IPTC metadata presets."

To transfer images to a smartphone while shooting (FTP background transfer)

Follow the procedure described in “2.1. Importing images using FTP” to import images.

Note：

  • Images imported to the smartphone will be stored in the internal memory. They cannot be stored in the card inserted in the smartphone.
  • It is not possible to change the image size when importing images. The original images are transferred.