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One of the major conveniences of your smartphone camera over standalone digital cameras has always been the ability to quickly upload photos online. But with the latest version of the , that convenience is coming to Sony's prosumer and professional interchangeable lens cameras as well. By making some initial settings on the (version 2.3 and newer), without going through the smartphone as long as the camera is powered on. These photos and videos uploaded to can be quickly browsed and edited from various mobile devices. You can check the progress of the upload(s) in the Creators' App or Creators' Cloud Web storage.  You can also be informed of the upload progress via your smartphone’s notification, while on the camera, there will be a status icon displayed too. Sony said that a Wi-Fi connection is still needed and recommends a stable Wi-Fi environment for the uploading. Sony cameras supporting this feature include the industrial heavyweights, such as FX3, FX30 and ILX-LR1, professional series like , , as well as prosumers models like , , , , . The most recent additions to support this feature (from March 2024) according to Sony are the  and cameras. However, this feature only works with Sony’s Creators’ Cloud and not other web storage services. If you register an eligible Sony camera, you can get . There are also more expensive tiers of 100GB and 500GB with pricing varying depending on the region. Apart from this convenient feature, the Creator’s App also allows users to use the smartphone as as well as enhance a camera’s functions like , of a video into the camera. In addition, you can use of Creators’ Cloud for basic editing. is a cloud-based application powered by artificial intelligence, which . This gives users a quick, easy, and high-quality pre-editing of video content through image stabilisation, compensating for lens focusing, volume optimisation, normalising uneven audio between clips, as well as colour correction before transferring to a non-linear editing software tool. If you've a compatible Sony Camera, to start exploring!