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[Deepthi]

Hello Everyone - I am relatively new to the Nikon world. Trying to understand my camera, I know it has inbuilt wifi, however that will only allow me to view photos from D5500 via the inbuilt app (WMU) on smart phone (Iphone), 

 

I am looking for better/common way anyone is taking these days to get photos (without compromising quality) from D5500 to your laptop or perhaps even better - get it uploaded onto cloud directly? 

 

I want to see if there is anything creative way than the traditional one... by transferring photos to your computer first and then to cloud. It would be nice if i could upload photos directly on to my cloud from my DSLR?

 

Any help is highly appreciated as this is will be a great problem solver for me!

 

Thank you anyone who is even thinking to help me here after reading this :-)

 

DD

[hatman]

An interesting question but unless I'm misunderstanding you wouldn't there have to be a way on the camera to enter a URL?

[TBonz]

I assume there is probably some method to do what you are asking, but likely you would need to go through your phone / tablet or another intermediate device.  Since most folks perform some kind of post-processing on their images, I don't know that anyone has tried what you are asking.  I know some of the big wire services upload over a wired or wireless network directly to a PC where others can sort, edit and send off to their destination - which is why you see photos of major events like the Olympics so quickly - but even then they don't ship anywhere near the total number of images they take.  Others I've seen have "runners" in a situation where they swap cards during breaks and the runners take the cards for editing and uploading.  I've seen smaller organizations do similar things in various ways.  One photographer I know stopped shooting at a particular time in the event, processed the "early" images, uploaded them and went back to shooting.  I've seen others edit a selected photo or a select few photos on their phone / tablet and upload during the event.  But I have never seen anyone do what you are asking since there would be no use for every unedited image in the cloud...

[Merco_61]

There are two problems with the idea of uploading to the cloud directly. One is that the screen on the back of your camera isn't well colourmanaged, so you don't know how the colours are presented when viewed on a colourmanaged screen. The other is that few photos are as good as they can get SOOC, you will need to do at least some postprocessing to get a photo ready for sharing.

[JohnM]

I am a newbie to Nikon. I have taken a number of photos with my new camera set to RAW but they transfer to jpeg on my Mac. I have been transferring to either Photo ( Apple's current default software--formerly iphoto) or Lightroom. Any thoughts on how to remedy? Thanks for your help.

[Merco_61]

JohnM, how do you transfer the files? There must be a setting in your transfer procedure somewhere that saves as jpg instead of just copying.

 

Just a thought -Do you save in raw + jpg in camera? In that case it is possible that you only copy the jpg instead of both. It is also possible that you have both files but Photos or LR only show the jpg.

[Ron]

Peter is right. Unless you have Lightroom set to show RAW and Jpeg files separately, what you'll likely see is one image. However, it will be listed as RAW+Jpeg. You can change this setting in Lightroom's preferences.

 

--Ron