Linking camera to a computer

[lct]

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11 hours ago, odub1 said:

[...] Now I’m trying to copy over the internal memory to an sd card but I just saw it didn’t work either. [...]

Page 182 of the instructions manual might help:

LeicaTL2_manual_page_182.pdf

[elambo]

This continues to be one of my greatest frustrations with modern cameras: the inability to directly link to a computer via high-speed WiFi. There's absolutely no reason for me to be forced to use an SD card, which essentially serves as a delivery device to the computer. It might be necessary for storage within the camera, but I, and many people I know, keep their photos on the computer, at one location or another. Sure, SD cards are fast, but in suggesting that SD cards are better than WiFi only points to the fact that Leica's design makes that so. WiFi technology has the ability to transfer at incredible speeds, but these cameras don't implement that.

I jumped into the CL with high hopes that Leica had upped their game in this regard, relative to my previous Leica, but WiFi tech was only inches improved over previous iterations, and still archaic relative to what *can* be done. My toaster has better WiFi skills.

[lct]

3 hours ago, elambo said:

This continues to be one of my greatest frustrations with modern cameras: the inability to directly link to a computer via high-speed WiFi. There's absolutely no reason for me to be forced to use an SD card, which essentially serves as a delivery device to the computer. It might be necessary for storage within the camera, but I, and many people I know, keep their photos on the computer, at one location or another. Sure, SD cards are fast, but in suggesting that SD cards are better than WiFi only points to the fact that Leica's design makes that so. WiFi technology has the ability to transfer at incredible speeds, but these cameras don't implement that.

I jumped into the CL with high hopes that Leica had upped their game in this regard, relative to my previous Leica, but WiFi tech was only inches improved over previous iterations, and still archaic relative to what *can* be done. My toaster has better WiFi skills.

Interesting thoughts. It never occurred to me to use WiFi for photography but i may be wrong. For my digital CL i have two storage devices, for instance, one SD card and one computer, whereas with your idea, i would only have one, if i understand well, my computer. What are you planning to do if you need two storage devices then? Or simply if you don't want to bother with a computer during shootings? I mean unless you own an M11 or similar camera with internal SSD of course. Just curious.

[elambo]

On 10/15/2022 at 3:46 PM, lct said:

Interesting thoughts. It never occurred to me to use WiFi for photography but i may be wrong. For my digital CL i have two storage devices, for instance, one SD card and one computer, whereas with your idea, i would only have one, if i understand well, my computer. What are you planning to do if you need two storage devices then? Or simply if you don't want to bother with a computer during shootings? I mean unless you own an M11 or similar camera with internal SSD of course. Just curious.

It still makes sense, to me, to have images written to an SD card. I don't think I'd like the camera to have an internal hard drive which is tough to access and, when broken, renders the camera useless. But in a perfect world I could send images, via WiFi, to my computer or tablet or wherever I decided to work on the pics. I don't think this would change the concept of keeping backups, but, for me, those backups would exist in places like, a) the computer, b) one of my cloud drives e.g. Apple's or Google's, c) the Adobe cloud for Lightroom.

I'm really only talking about how we move images from the camera to the editing device. SD cards are a slow and unnecessary middle step.

[Le Chef]

The idea of an internal drive is a bit like a coffee machine and grinder all in one. Nice idea on paper until one part of the whole breaks. I will stick with taking out an SD card and transferring files to my computer and LightRoom.

[lct]

The M11 allows to store images on both an SD card and an internal SSD.