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Is it possible to take a photograph with a digital camera and have it appear on a Windows computer without a cable and without any user fiddling (other than initial setup)?
Background: Our charity shop does eBay and we have about 10 volunteers doing it over the course of a week. They use a variety of methods for photographing items, with a variety of different skills, and a variety of interesting editing. For each item that gets photographed (with a variety of donated digital cameras) the card has to be removed, the image transferred to a PC (in a variety of locations). The images rarely get deleted after listing, so the PCs begin to get clogged with images. Faffing with SD cards takes time too and I wonder what toll constantly plugging/unplugging cards/cables will take on the cameras. We're looking to sharpen things up a bit and make it more uniform - including the photography, as well as make things easier for the paid staff who spend a lot of their time clearing up after volunteers.
In an ideal world, everyone would have top of the range iPads or phones with decent [enough for eBay] cameras and the eBay app on there. Unfortunately, it's a charity and justifying the expense would be... challenging. Also, some volunteers refuse to use the tablets we currently have because a) they don't like tablets, b) the cameras are truly awful, and/or c) they're awkward to use as cameras especially for older generations (most of our volunteers). The other ideal world idea is for the cameras we use to auto-upload to a year/month/day folder on a computer/server using Bluetooth or wifi, without the need for removing the card and keeping the images in one place making them easy to find, and prune.
It needs to be without a cable. Some of the items are furniture and can't be moved to a desktop computer - don't even start with laptops!
I'm a "take the card out" dinosaur which is fine for my use. I've shot portraits tethered (with cable) before and it's a faff, and not something we can train the volunteers on. Need something very simple. Budget is £0 or as close to it as we can get. Anything over £0 will need a proper business case. We have no Lightroom or any DAM to manage the images either, but as the images are only needed once, it's not a concern (that I can see). If we need new cameras or software, that's fine. I just wanted to know if it's possible, and if so, how?
Thanks in advance!
Is it possible to take a photograph with a digital camera and have it appear on a Windows computer without a cable and without any user fiddling (other than initial setup)?
Background: Our charity shop does eBay and we have about 10 volunteers doing it over the course of a week. They use a variety of methods for photographing items, with a variety of different skills, and a variety of interesting editing. For each item that gets photographed (with a variety of donated digital cameras) the card has to be removed, the image transferred to a PC (in a variety of locations). The images rarely get deleted after listing, so the PCs begin to get clogged with images. Faffing with SD cards takes time too and I wonder what toll constantly plugging/unplugging cards/cables will take on the cameras. We're looking to sharpen things up a bit and make it more uniform - including the photography, as well as make things easier for the paid staff who spend a lot of their time clearing up after volunteers.
In an ideal world, everyone would have top of the range iPads or phones with decent [enough for eBay] cameras and the eBay app on there. Unfortunately, it's a charity and justifying the expense would be... challenging. Also, some volunteers refuse to use the tablets we currently have because a) they don't like tablets, b) the cameras are truly awful, and/or c) they're awkward to use as cameras especially for older generations (most of our volunteers). The other ideal world idea is for the cameras we use to auto-upload to a year/month/day folder on a computer/server using Bluetooth or wifi, without the need for removing the card and keeping the images in one place making them easy to find, and prune.
It needs to be without a cable. Some of the items are furniture and can't be moved to a desktop computer - don't even start with laptops!
I'm a "take the card out" dinosaur which is fine for my use. I've shot portraits tethered (with cable) before and it's a faff, and not something we can train the volunteers on. Need something very simple. Budget is £0 or as close to it as we can get. Anything over £0 will need a proper business case. We have no Lightroom or any DAM to manage the images either, but as the images are only needed once, it's not a concern (that I can see). If we need new cameras or software, that's fine. I just wanted to know if it's possible, and if so, how?
Thanks in advance!