#HOW TO SET UP IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY CANON ON PC SOFTWARE#

When the Canon Image Transfer Utility 2 software is installed, it automatically sets a default folder location for your image files, on the host computer. Destination Folder - Where Images Will be Sent on the Computer Again, with the Canon Image Transfer 2 software, this is done via a typical home Wi-Fi network - so it cannot be done “in the middle of nowhere,” directly from camera to computer. Once you’ve told the camera that you want to have it automatically send images to the computer the next time the camera starts up, there’s a pairing process that then needs to be performed, to link the camera and the computer with Canon Image Transfer Utility 2 software installed. ** Type to send - Stills only or Stills + movies ** Range to send - All or Selected images Here, you select which image files to send: This activates the auto sending feature, so it needs to be set to Enable Tap on Auto send images to computer, and two more menu options present themselves: (Ignore “Send to smartphone after shot ” that’s a separate and unrelated function.) Then, the EOS M50 needs to have Auto send images to computer activated in its Wi-Fi settings menu. This graphic illustrates the basic process - the camera and computer need to be “paired” through your Wi-Fi network, and then you can send image and video files from the camera to a designated Destination Folder on the computer.įirst, the camera’s basic Wi-Fi needs to be turned on, in the yellow Set-up Menu area.

To automatically send images from the EOS M50 camera to your computer, you need a standard home Wi-Fi system, which both the camera and computer can recognize.

#HOW TO SET UP IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY CANON ON PC FREE#

(available as a free download, from the Canon USA web site product support page)

Canon Image Transfer Utility 2 software.

#HOW TO SET UP IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY CANON ON PC WINDOWS#

A compatible Windows or Macintosh computer, with Canon’s free Image Transfer Utility 2 software installed.

(this is important…more later in this article)

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.

#HOW TO SET UP IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY CANON ON PC FULL#

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. Using Canon EOS Utility software, wirelessly connect the camera to a compatible computer, and transfer images as they’re taken to a folder on the computer (wireless “tethered shooting”).Send copies of images to a compatible Android™ or iOS™ mobile device (smartphone or tablet), using Canon’s Camera Connect App.And, there are two additional, entirely separate processes to automatically send EOS M50 images automatically from the camera:

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.

#HOW TO SET UP IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY CANON ON PC MAC#

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.

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