How Do I Transfer Pictures From My Sony Camera To My Laptop?

Help Guide Edition No. 1.0

[Sync to Smartphone] is a camera application that automatically transfers nevertheless images that you have shot to your smartphone or tablet computer when the camera is turned off.
To use this awarding, install (PlayMemories Mobile) on your smartphone or tablet computer.

Required: Smartphone or tablet computer (Wi-Fi access point not required.)

Registering a smartphone or tablet estimator on the photographic camera and setting the automatic transfer feature

Install PlayMemories Mobile on your smartphone or tablet computer (hereinafter smartphone).
- To download PlayMemories Mobile, become to the following website.
  http://www.sony.cyberspace/pmm/
- If PlayMemories Mobile is already installed on your smartphone, update PlayMemories Mobile to the latest version before starting [Sync to Smartphone] for the first fourth dimension.
On your camera, select Bill of fare → [Application] → [Sync to Smartphone].
Select [Annals].
- You lot can register only ane smartphone on the photographic camera.
- If a smartphone is already registered on the camera, [Alter Regist.] will appear. To transfer images to some other smartphone, select [Change Regist.] and and so [Register].
- If a smartphone that yous do not want to register on the camera is automatically connected to the camera via Wi-Fi, temporarily turn off the Wi-Fi function of the smartphone and then register your smartphone.
- When you select [Delete Regist.], the information for the smartphone registered on the camera is deleted.
When [SSID] and [Password] appear, perform the post-obit procedure to connect the smartphone to the camera via Wi-Fi.
- If y'all have connected the camera and smartphone via Wi-Fi before, a Wi-Fi connection may be established automatically.
[For Android]
1. (1) Starting time PlayMemories Mobile on Android.
2. (2) Select the camera (DIRECT-xxxx:xxx-xxx) that is detected via Wi-Fi.
3. (iii) Enter the password displayed on the camera into your smartphone.
  - The smartphone is connected to the camera.
4. (4) Register the camera for automatic transfer of images using PlayMemories Mobile.
[For iPhone/iPad]
1. (1) Select the photographic camera (DIRECT-xxxx:30-xxx) that is detected via Wi-Fi on the Wi-Fi setting screen of the iPhone/iPad.
2. (2) Enter the password displayed on the camera into your iPhone/iPad.
  - The iPhone/iPad is connected to the camera.
3. (iii) Start PlayMemories Mobile on your iPhone/iPad.
4. (four) Register the camera for automatic transfer of images using PlayMemories Mobile.
Note
- If a notification that PlayMemories Mobile requires access appears on your smartphone screen, select [OK].
When the smartphone is connected to the camera and information such as the name of your smartphone appears on the photographic camera screen, select [OK].
- The information for the smartphone to which images volition be automatically transferred is registered on the camera, and [Auto Transfer] is prepare to ON.
- When yous exit this application according to the on-screen instructions, the shooting screen reappears.

Changing the settings

Yous can change the following settings on the main screen of the photographic camera.

Auto Transfer

Set up whether or not images are automatically transferred to your smartphone when the camera is turned off.

[Auto Transfer] is ON

While [Automobile Transfer] is prepare to ON, the images y'all shoot are added to the transfer queue list. The photographic camera automatically starts transferring the queued images to your smartphone when the photographic camera is turned off.

[Machine Transfer] is OFF

While [Auto Transfer] is ready to OFF, the images you shoot are not added to the transfer queue list. Even if y'all set up [Auto Transfer] to ON subsequently you lot cease shooting, the images are not added to the transfer queue list.

Change Regist.

Select [Option] to alter [Transfer Image Size] and ostend [Disp. Transfer Status].

Transfer Image Size

Select the size of the images to be transferred to your smartphone.

[Original]: Transfers images in the original size to your smartphone.
[2M]: Transfers images to your smartphone afterward reducing the pixel size to approx. 2 mega pixels. If the images you shot already have a pocket-size pixel size, they may exist transferred without a reduction in their size.
We recommend selecting [Original] when you want to save high-quality images and selecting [2M] to upload the images to a network service or attach the images to electronic mail messages.
When you select [Original], it volition take longer to transfer images to the smartphone than the time required when [2M] is selected.

Disp. Transfer Condition

Brandish the latest image transmission status.

If you perform [Reset transfer reservation], images in the queue at that time are removed and will no longer be transferred.

Shooting images and transferring images automatically

Shoot still images with your camera.
- When [Machine Transfer] is fix to ON, the images you shoot are added to the transfer queue listing on the camera. You lot can bank check the number of images remaining on the list on the main screen that is displayed when you lot get-go this application.
Make sure that the smartphone registered as the transfer destination is nearby.
Plough off the camera.
Kickoff PlayMemories Mobile on your smartphone.

[For Android]

Commencement PlayMemories Mobile from the notification bar.
- If the smartphone is locked or in sleep state, PlayMemories Mobile starts transferring images automatically. While the images are being transferred, a notification will exist displayed on your smartphone.
- If PlayMemories Mobile is started before you plow off the camera, go to step 5.
[For iPhone/iPad]
1. (1) Select the SSID displayed on the iPhone/iPad from the Wi-Fi setting screen and confirm that the photographic camera and your iPhone/iPad are continued via Wi-Fi.
2. (2) Render to the home screen and commencement PlayMemories Mobile.
Either leave the photographic camera and smartphone in close proximity or carry both devices with you.
- The photographic camera starts transferring images added to the transfer queue list to your smartphone and the transmission status appears.
- When all images take been transferred or if there is a transmission error, a message will announced. Click [OK] or expect until the camera turns off automatically.
- To stop transferring images, press [Abolish] and select [Cancel] while images are being transferred. If you plow the photographic camera off and on while images are being transferred, y'all can interrupt the transfer operation and apply the camera for shooting or playback.
- If yous interrupt the transfer of images, the photographic camera will transfer images, including those which were not transferred in the previous transmission, the next time the camera is turned off.
- If a transmission error occurs, the transmission status dialog appears the next time you lot start up the application.

Notes

[Reset transfer reservation] is only effective for the memory card that is inserted in the camera at the time.
The images are added to the transfer queue list when [Sync to Smartphone] is started or when the camera is turned off. If you desire to switch the retentiveness card, we recommend turning the camera off one time before starting this operation.
When the date and fourth dimension setting of the camera is inverse, some of the images may not be transferred. To adjust the camera clock to local standard time, change [Surface area Setting]. When you change the clock setting to Summer Time, utilise the [Daylight Savings] setting function of the camera.
Y'all cannot automatically transfer movies using [Sync to Smartphone].
All illustrations in this guide are representative images.
Even if [Transfer Image Size] is set to [Original], RAW images are always transferred equally JPEG images with the pixel size reduced to the same size as when [2M] is selected.
It may take a long time to transfer images or manual errors may occur depending on the distance between the photographic camera and smartphone, the reception atmospheric condition, the functioning of your smartphone, etc.
Information technology may take longer than usual for the lens to be retracted in some of the cameras after the camera is turned off. This difference, however, is not a malfunction.
For further information well-nigh functions and settings of cameras that are compatible with this awarding, see the following webpage.
PlayMemories Camera Apps > Sync to Smartphone > Specifications