Importing photos from an A7R II

[javierc30819081]

Hi,

Couldn't find a topic about this. I recently purchased a Sony A7R II upgrading from my actual A65. Since the A7R II has WIFI, how the import will work? Will Lightroom import pictures directly from the camera? Another worry is since the SD Card will be a SDXC Class 10 UHS-3 not sure if my laptop's card reader will actually read it. Maybe a driver upgrade situation here?

Trying to have everything in place when I'm starting using the new camera. Still waiting for the lens and the card.

I'm using Lightroom CC

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[F. McLion · Accepted solution]

First, you need to make sure you are using at least LR CC 2015.1.1, or better the latest 2015.9.

Cameras supported by Camera Raw

If you tell your Laptop to map a letter to the WiFi share of the camera you certainly should be able to import directly.

Older card readers do not support SDXC, only up to SDHC cards. If that's the case you can use the slower SDHC (max 32GB) or use some other method to import like direct USB from camera to Laptop or WiFi (if it works stable).

[javierc30819081]

Thanks for your reply McLion!

I have 2015.9

My Laptop is from March 2015. The internal card reader is a Realtek PCIE. I haven't been able to find whether it reads SDXC or not.

If I'm not mistaken, direct USB connection might work.

[F. McLion]

Simply test it with a card.

A card reader is the recommended way since with some cameras the direct USB transfer can be error prone.

However, personally I never had any issues with the direct USB connection.