Originally posted by jatrax I feel so old. I thought phones were for, like, phoning people.................
So OK, is there some type of app or internet thingy where pictures on your laptop get automagically moved to your phone? Lightroom CC will do that for you easily. Either from phone to laptop or from laptop to phone. If Adobe does it I would think someone else does as well. I'm assuming you do not use Lightroom, but surely there is a free way to handle that? For any commercial photography automating your workflow is key to reducing the time spent. If you only do something once its no big deal but if you are repeating that dozens or hundreds of times to get your posts up there is room for lots of time savings.
I have Lightroom, both on laptop and phone. But I find I end up simply using airdrop to transfer photos as the automation doesn’t really seem to work instantly, probably because my laptop is quite old. Also I can just use icloud which works better. Still, it means switching my laptop on.
To be clear, this is not my job, it’s how I document my hobby, and with the sewing community being Instagram, and has regular photo challenges, taking good pictures generally gets people looking at those pictures. I post one a day, if that.
But it’s also a camera I would take on holiday, I don’t take my laptop on holiday.
Essentially my question could have been rephrased as ‘ I got an award for a project at work that came with a small bit of extra cash. I want to treat myself to something nice as I worked hard on it. A better camera might make my hobby easier and save time. If it won’t do that then I’ll spend my money on something else’.
Which it sounds like I should as the camera doesn’t really offer more practicality than my k-r with a WiFi SD card. Other than the flip screen as that would save trial and error time.