[Fwirt]

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and simple developing within seconds. I know there are cameras with built-in WiFi that do this but camera manufacturers seem to let their software become outdated quickly.

[reaperducer]

What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing.

Apple makes (made?) an SD Card to lightning dongle. It's a wonderful thing on vacations.

I can take the SD Card from my Hasselblad and plug it into my iPhone. I then delete photos and videos I don't want, upload the keepers to iCloud as a backup, and AirDrop pictures to my wife so she can send them to her friends.

iOS has no problem with most current raw formats, and you can even convert them to JPEGs right in the phone.

You can also import the raw images and do basic editing of the photos with the Photos app.

The only problem I've run into is with long videos sometimes being laggy. But that might be an issue with a slow card, or moving data over a Lightning interface.

[giobox]

Since the dawn of USB-C iOS devices (iPhone 15 onwards), you can plug any old usb card reader into an iPhone or iPad without an adapter and it works.

[cyberax]

The WiFi in cameras is definitively in the "do not use" category. It's usually some kind of flaky, broken, and/or slow.

I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and time sync. It would immediately solve all the connectivity issues.

[Computer0]

When is the last time you purchased a camera and how much did you spend? I am happy with the wireless performance of my Sony A7 SIII. I kind of splurged on it as my once in every 2 decades camera so I don't have anything to compare to besides connectivity first cameras (Drone).

[cyberax]

I have a Sony A7 from 2019. I also tried a couple of other newer cameras from Nikon and one from Fujitsu.