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How To Connect Your Sony Camera to Your Phone (Sony Imaging Edge App)
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Jun 1, 2024
Looking to connect your Sony camera to your phone? This guide will walk you through using the Sony Imaging Edge app to seamlessly connect and control your camera remotely. Learn how to transfer photos, shoot remotely, and manage settings from your smartphone. Whether you're a photographer on the go or exploring new possibilities with your Sony camera, this blog post will help you harness the power of wireless connectivity for a seamless photography experience.
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Okay, so today I'm going to talk to you about wait
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No, I'm not quite ready. Okay, so today we're going to talk about how to connect this to that
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Hold on a sec. No. Okay, so today we're going to talk about how to connect your phone to your Sony camera. Okay
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Yeah, that's much better. I think I'll leave that one. All right. So yeah, that's what we're going to talk about today is how to hook up your iPhone or Android
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phone to your Sony camera because it will make your life much easier
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I've had the Sony camera for two years now, the Sony a6600
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And just today I downloaded the app and created my account and hooked it to my phone
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And it's so much easier. The thing is, I record my videos and the cameras at around 22 millimeters
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So it's kind of far away from me right now. And I mess up my lines all the time, especially the introduction
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And so I'll end up jumping up, turning it off, thinking about it, looking at my notes
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be like, okay, let's do this again. And so 20 times later, I'm like all sweaty, trying to record a video and it's frustrating
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And the great thing now I can just look down and be like, yeah, I didn't really like that. Let's start over
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Then I can just keep going again. And I'm not filling up my memory card because the videos are just too long because I don't
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want to get up and turn it off while I'm thinking about my lines. So all in all, I think this is gonna be really great
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Obviously, if I didn't want you to know that I'm doing that, I would just move my phone here
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But I think it's still much easier to do than get up and turn to get to my camera to turn
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the recording on and off. And for a bunch of different shots, the great thing is I can adjust a lot of the settings
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even in the middle of a recording. So the F-stop right now is set to 2.8
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But what if I turn that up to F-22? Well, I just disappeared
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Now if I change the ISO to 32,000, okay, there we go
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I have no idea. This is gonna be kind of grayish and grainy probably
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But you know, I can make these adjustments on the fly far away from my camera
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Oops, it's on auto ISO now. So go back to ISO 800, sorry
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Then back to F-2.8. Okay, we're back. You know, it's great to have this here
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You can make certain adjustments while you're in the middle of recording. Like the color temperature, I can only make adjustments to while the video is not recording
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But you know, I'm gonna use this for an upcoming video on how to take pictures of yourself
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I know everyone during COVID sees their friends, their family, everyone much less
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And so if you want to take pictures of yourself, who's gonna do it for you? It's a little bit more difficult
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So I'm gonna take my tripod out and go find some cool places to take pictures
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And I needed this app because it's much easier to see, hey, do I look okay
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Or not when I'm far away, snap a picture, have it load on my phone and be like, yeah
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that could work. And continue to take pictures versus having to get close to the camera, you know, set
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up the auto timer, the self timer, whatever the heck that thing is called. I haven't used it actually on on this camera
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So that's what I wanted to experiment with. So that gave me the excuse to actually figure this app out
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So we're gonna do now is I'm actually deleted off my phone. And we'll start off from scratch downloading the app, create an account, or I'll just sign
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in, but you need to create an account and then connect this to your camera so that you
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can control it from here. This works the same if you're on an iPhone like I am or on an Android device
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I did test this out earlier on my Google Pixel three. It works with both
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So let's get started. So let's see. This is the imaging edge
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Mobile is what it's called. OK, so let's just get rid of this on my iPhone
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The app is gone. OK, OK. So to get started here, you need to go to the app store that just if you just search
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for Sony camera app. There we go. And then you see the imaging edge mobile
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So it knows that I've obviously recorded this previously. Let's download it one more time
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Let's open this bad boy up. OK, welcome to imaging edge mobile
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I agree to the conditions in terms of use. OK, photography is my main profession
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Videography is my main profession. I do other stuff sometimes. How about videography
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Is my sideline business more than 10 percent of income? OK. And what do I like
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Selfie kind of sports, weddings, events, fashion, beauty, no macro shooting blog. Sure. Look
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You know, start. I would like to use your Bluetooth. OK. Wants to view access to photos. OK
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Not if I hate notifications, no. Where I am right now while using the app and then now it's time to connect the camera
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OK, so the process here is actually really, really easy. The first thing you need to do on your camera
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And so in the network section of your Sony camera, there is control with smartphone and
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you want to make sure that control with smartphone is on. And then the next step is just to connect
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And then so here you say here is a QR code. Here is the SSID
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Here, if you click on connect with a new camera. So here are the three options QR code, NFC or SSID and password
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The easiest is obviously just going to be the QR code. So let's just click here. OK. OK
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And then if we just do. And then join. OK, so now we have
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It should work. Wait for it. Wait for it. OK. There we go
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So here is. Yoda R2D2 and the. Fighter or whatever it's called
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OK, so you can see this shot right here is quite underexposed
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You see that flashy minus 2.0 here. So what I could do is open up the aperture a little bit
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And then let's see if I need to adjust the ISO. Something like that, probably
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And then so you can see it's still underexposed. OK, so something like that
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So I think it depends a little bit which camera you have, what functionality you're going
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to have in the app. There might be autofocus or being able to pick focus points with different cameras
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But with my Sony a6600, that's not something that I can do. The changes that I can make are obviously the aperture, the ISO, the shutter speed
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the the white balance. Well, I'm not recording, so I can I have all these options right here
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But then once I click on record. OK. So what you can see now is, you know, the I can't choose some of the stuff that was
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over here available, but I can still adjust the f-stop. So I could go all the way up to 22 or back to 2.8
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The ISO, obviously I could change. As well. So for example, if in this shot, let's say I didn't I wanted a less blurry background
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so maybe I want to expose for can I get something with like F6, 6.3 as opposed to F2.8
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Give it some more light, more light still. Keep going. So you can see here now that there's more there's more depth of field
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It's not quite as blurry as it was just a second ago. So there's different changes like that that you can make just here on the app and not
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have to make on the actual camera. But for example, to change the focus, I'm not able to do that here
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I'd have to click on, hey, I want R2D2 in focus or, you know, the fighter behind, let's say
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OK, so what do you think of the app? Was it pretty easy to download? Get connected to your compu..
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All right. So what do you think? Were you able to hook up your Sony app to your camera
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I hope so. I mean, I'm pretty happy with this. I've only been using it for a couple of hours right before recording this video
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And I think it's going to save me a bunch of time. I'm not going to fill up my memory card so quickly
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It's easy to stop, pause, make adjustments on the fly. I think for the video I'm going to be recording really soon about how to take pictures of yourself
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It's also going to come in really, really handy. I'll be sharing that with you as soon as it's ready
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But I don't know if you're looking to record better videos. We have a whole playlist to help you with that
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I'll link to those videos right here. Hope to see you in those and future videos
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Bye bye. Boom
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