Originally posted by aurele would you mind describing a bit the process of the Wifi ?
I guess some people would like to know more detail about how it is suppose to work, and why you say it's a pain.
Sure,
Like any other WiFi enabled cameras you start WiFi and switch your phone to the same network and start the app, so far so good. Most other cameras allow you to select pictures on the camera to send to the device, Ricoh doesn't. The camera is unaware that it is connected to a phone or device. Fine so you have to select the pictures on the phone, no prob. Well there is no way to select all, kr select only JPGs or a certain range, you have to manually select the pictures you want to download, however you can not see the format of the picture you are selecting, and you can not opt to download a smaller file of the photo, say something to use in social media. If you want to see the format of the file, whether dng or jpg, you'll have to click on the file, once you do that you lose all your selection, and you start all over again.
Once you successfully downloaded the pictures,they download to the app, on the Android there's no way to get the pictures to use them, they reside in the app, I think you can share them on FB, but they do not show up in your photos, can't email edit or txt them, Nada. On the ios platform, you have to reselect whatever pics you want and transfer them a second time to the photo app.
If that's not enough the remote shoot on the app is disabled, if you want to remote shoot and control the camera, a person should download a web app, you can cash the app for later use, but if you don't have the app on your phone, good luck with that, you'll have to go back to the user manual figure out the link for the web app and download it. Most other cameras that use a webserver , the webserver resides on the camera, so when you connect to the camera's IP address the webserver fires up on your browser and you are good to go. Downloading pictures with the web app is a another painful experience, you download the picture to your browser and then you right click to save, no batch or modified download. It is such a shame because the GR is such a great camera but obviously Ricoh didn't spend the time or energy at developing the WiFi solution. I hope someone from Ricoh is reading this, they need to fix that issue quickly or there's no reason to buy the II over the original