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#303280 29-Jan-2023 17:22

Has anyone ever come across a reasonably current camera (not Phone) That has the ability to send images directly via wireless to a Instagram account?

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#3029046 29-Jan-2023 20:23

Prob need something Android based due to the amount of times their app gets updated....

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#3029049 29-Jan-2023 20:28

I would have thought, camera to phone via WiFi, then Post is an easier workflow.

Has the advantage of being able to edit on phone.and is a backup of camera….

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#3029086 29-Jan-2023 23:12

I guess some phone / camera hybrid would be the best.

But I am not aware of of a current & available ones sadly.

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#3029096 29-Jan-2023 23:25

This is what I do with my modern canon (R6).

1. I protect the pictures I want to keep with a custom button.
2. Then use the delete all but protected images from card 1 option
3. I remove the second SD card, and I enable the wireless upload to their free image.canon service which in turn automatically and instantly syncs to my Adobe Lightroom and Google Drive accounts.

Lightroom then allows you to post directly into Instagram after editing, if that's your thing.

Every once in a while I'll transfer images to my computer and also AWS S3 glacier as you can never have enough copies of important pictures.

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#3029278 30-Jan-2023 10:33

Scott3:

I guess some phone / camera hybrid would be the best.

But I am not aware of of a current & available ones sadly.

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China only (2018) YN450 / YN450M

Thanks I actually bought an old one of those bit clunky and of course the software was out of date.

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#3029342 30-Jan-2023 10:54

gnfb:

Thanks I actually bought an old one of those bit clunky and of course the software was out of date.

And therein lies the rub as they say.

Any standalone camera with an Instagram direct upload option will inevitably fall out of touch with changes/updates to the Instagram service and leave you with a broken concept.
It's also so random/oddball that it may not particularly good either.

Closest I would think would be one of the Sony A6000 line, but from memory they removed their paid app store thing they were setting up there.

As others have said, moving from camera to phone is probably the best approach, so you can control the image editing, labelling/tagging/text description piece and then posting process via the phone.
Any camera with WI-FI to a phone app and into the phone image folder would suit this approach.