How to use the Sony RX100 Mk III Wifi Connection

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In my recent review of the Sony RX100 Mk III, I skipped over the Wifi connectivity. Sony has been putting this into cameras for a while now and my early experiences with built in Wifi were frustrating to say the least so I stopped even trying to use it. However - I decided to give it another shot recently. Sony have come a long way with wifi transfer of images. Its not perfect (and won't be until mobile devices support RAW), but for a number of things its actually quite useful. To get this to work you will need to download the free Sony Play Memories app. Its available for both Apple and Android devices. This video explains how to connect the camera to your phone. This works smoothly on all my Sony cameras including the RX100 mark iii, the Sony a5100 and the Sony A7s. It works on other recent Sony models as well. Sponsor: Lynda.com For 10 days, of free access, visit http://lynda.com/aop

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Ted Forbes here. Welcome back to the art of photography. I want to talk a little bit about the
0:05.3	Wi-Fi capabilities today on the Sony Rx 100 Mark 3. This is a camera that I bought a couple months back. I've absolutely fallen in love with this thing. It is
0:13.2	pocket-sized. It's amazing. You can do all sorts of cool things with this and I did a
0:17.8	pretty extensive review on this a couple episodes ago and I'll link to that in the
0:21.4	show notes and at the end of the
0:22.7	video if you're interested in watching that. One thing I did not touch on very
0:26.2	much in this review were the Wi-Fi capabilities of this camera and the reason I
0:30.1	didn't talk about them very much is some of the previous Sonis that I own like the
0:34.5	NEX-5 and such they had Wi-Fi capabilities but they were pretty bad and so I really
0:39.4	kind of gave up on that as being anything useful and so when I picked up the
0:42.8	ARX 100 Mark 3 kind of glossed it over and reviewed it as a camera and so that's
0:47.2	what I've talked about before. I've since gotten into this and tried it and
0:50.4	it's really pretty cool and surprisingly very useful so come on over and I want to go
0:54.9	up close with the Sony R.X 100 Mark 3 and check out how to use Wi-Fi with this.
0:59.6	So let's talk about the Wi-Fi capabilities in the Sony and I will note that this works what I'm
1:04.4	showing you here works pretty much across all the sonies that I've got so the
1:07.6	rX 100 mark 3 works fine on the A7s I've had no trouble with A5100 I don't own an A6,000 but I'm sure it works on that
1:15.4	somebody might be able to chime in on the comments on that but I want to show you how
1:18.6	this works and what's really cool is this is not well it's not going to replace
1:22.3	your workflow with light room and raw images and
1:25.2	storage and all that. But what it does do is if you have images on your camera that you want
1:31.2	to show a proof to a client.
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