I’ve been taking pics & vids with my smartphone for years but I’m tired of it telling me the memory is full. I want to have a dedicated camera that can upload to clouds, youtube, share via email, text etc. Anybody out there know about cameras?
Your best bet might be to just put a larger SD card in your phone. Failing that, get another phone with a good camera that you use just for taking photos, tethered through your existing phone’s hotspot, so you have all the sharing features you mention.
Wait…phones have SD cards? 🤔 AFAIK phones haven’t been able to be cracked open by users for batteries & cards replacements since circa-2014(?)
My current phone Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has been going strong since 2022. Does this have an SD card I wasn’t aware of?
Many do. I have a Fairphone which does, and my previous Huawei did too. It’s a feature I tend to look out for when I replace my phone, precicely to avoid the issue you’re having!
Most of the Galaxy S series do take SD cards, unfortunately the S21 is one of the two that don’t.
If you don’t want to get a new device, you might want to look at what’s using most of the storage. If it’s photos and videos, you can probably dump most of them to your google drive to free up space.
Thank you for that info. And I assure you I keep all my photos and videos deleted off my phone as soon as I edit them and upload them to a cloud or to my external hard drive, they are off my phone. I’m constantly cleaning out my phone storage and it is as bare bones as possible and I strongly suspect my phone is doing that “planned obsolescence” thing lately because I took one video yesterday and it wouldn’t let me edit it, it gave me an error message that said I need to free up 7 GB of memory on my phone and I’m like “SEVEN GIGS?! THAT’S RIDICULOUS!”
This is the current state of my phone memory and storage availability:
You are pretty low on storage space. I’m not sure if it’s the same on all Android versions, so you might have to look around, but if I go to Settings, then Storage it gives me a breakdown of what’s using the space (Apps, Videos, Images, and a bunch of other categories). That might give you a hint as to what’s using that 117Gb. If it’s Apps, tapping that line in the list takes you to a list of all your apps, showing how much space each is using. There may be something that you’re not using that you can uninstall.
Yeah I’ve been chipping away at that process in between long work days & survival & exhaustion. There’s one particular folder in internal storage that is hard to access and hard to transfer to my external hard drive, so that’s on my to-do list.
I’m not super familiar with their ecosystems, but Insta360/GoPro/DJI probably have the most robust apps that will do something *CLOSE * to this. , but nothing that allows posting directly from the device as far as I know.
You’d still need to do a lot of the posting via your phone/computer on an app. BUT, I think your phone can just act as a bridge, with the files still stored on the camera (likely on a microsd).
Outside of static security cameras, no one’s really putting SIM cards in cameras. You’ll find a lot that will share contents via wifi/bluetooth, but that’s still going to require your phone/computer to post.
With my Fujifilm, I can access my camera wirelessly and can even have it set to automatically send JPEGs to my phone, but nothing that will interface directly with social media. If anything, the size of the JPEGs and multiple redundancies would only compound your storage issues.
How about an ultracompact point and shoot camera like a Canon PowerShot/ixus HS or similar? You’ll have the power of a proper camera with a much better lens and sensor than a smartphone would have, in a light, portable package.
Yes thank you for those words, “Canon powershot” is something I’ve heard of and I like it
I didn’t really think a high quality option exists for this. Most cameras would require you connect to your phone to transfer images for these kinds of functions. So, get a camera that can do that or a phone with a micro SD slot for more memory.
Sounds like you are having a storage problem.
Dedicated cameras are better for quality pictures but they are very clunky to carry around. It doesn’t solve your storage problem and it seems you are not looking to solve a picture quality problem.
The easiest solution tech-wise would be google photos. Set it up to automatically upload and delete the version on your phone. You can share uploaded pictures directly to social media or people. Youtube is also in Google’s ecosystem so AFAIK you can prompt the AI in Google photos and create videos for Youtube. Note that if you take a lot of pictures you must pay to have expanded storage to support the above.
A similar self-host option would be immich.
Thank you, the problem with Google photos is they upload everything from my phone, even the pictures & videos that were just practice, not perfect, botched and I want to delete them. But Google sucks everything up from my phone and puts it in the cloud before I get a chance to review it, edit it, delete it. And then paying for storage of things I would’ve deleted 😱
In my opinion the “store everything” approach is actually a good thing. By not caring about which pictures look best I can immerse myself in the moment more instead of caring about storage. Many times when I reviewed pictures I took in the past, shots I thought were terrible actually captured details that the “good” shots didn’t. You’ll have more clarity when leisurely reviewing pictures on a computer.
I agree that storing pictures on someone else’s service is not a good idea in the long run. The recent AI hype wave affected RAM, SSD and HDD prices. I think grabbing large SD cards now before they are affected too would be a good move.
It might be best to setup a nextcloud instance on an old laptop/desktop if you have one. It is quite tricky as the initial setup, but if your good at networking and hardware management it’s definitely a worthwhile investment of time and/or money because it’s completely and independently owned. You have the option to upgrade storage along the way without paying more money for a higher subscription.
Fujifilm just came out with a modern toy camera. Fujifilm Instax evo cinema or something like that. Not quite what you are looking for but may be worth a search. Depending on your smartphone an SD to usb C could take the photos of any camera and you could upload from the phone.
