An EOS M50 camera, with still images or video files on its memory card.To automatically transfer images to your computer, a few things are required: This can also be a very simple and automated way to begin the workflow process, by copying your files to a designated folder on your hard drive, or an external (or even network-connected) hard drive. This applies to RAW original files and even video files as well.
And unlike image transfers to smartphones, the full-resolution, original image files are copied.
Shoot your images, and when you return home (or just have a break in the action, and your computer in front of you), just turn on a previously-paired computer, and wake up your camera - the full images are sent to your computer, automatically. This function lets you perform an automatic backup of the images on an EOS M50’s memory card. In this article, however, we refer strictly to the automatic transfer of images to a computer, via the Canon Image Transfer Utility software.
Two important notes: first, the Auto send images to computer function only occurs when the camera is turned ON (or if the camera wakes up from sleep) with the Canon Image Transfer Utility 2 software discussed here, the EOS M50 is not able to actively send each shot as it’s taken to a nearby host computer. Select images on the memory card (using the camera’s Playback feature), and have all selected images sent to the computer when the camera is next re-activated - either awakes from sleep, or you turn it off and then back on.Automatically send all images or video files on the camera’s SD memory card which have not yet been sent, when the camera either wakes up from sleep, or when you turn it back on.With the available Canon Image Transfer Utility 2 software (for Mac or Windows) installed on the host computer, and a home Wi-Fi system, you can do any of the following: But the EOS M50 is the first EOS camera to offer the ability to automatically move image files from the camera’s memory card to a designated folder on a compatible Mac® or Windows® computer. EOS M50 - Transfer Images Automatically to your ComputerĬanon EOS cameras have offered Wi-Fi® capabilities for some time now.