For photographers
Connect Camera — the gallery fills while you shoot
The camera pushes over FTPS or SFTP to a credential minted for one event and expiring on its own. No cables, no card readers, no laptop.
The gap between the last frame and the first delivery is where a lot of a photographer's reputation is decided, and most of that gap is logistics: get home, find the reader, copy the card, wait.
A body that can transfer over the network sends straight into the event instead. You generate a session for the event, put those details into the camera's transfer settings, and shoot. Guests watching the gallery see the ceremony while the reception is still running — and a live monitor tells you if the camera has gone quiet, which is the failure you actually need to catch on the day.
How it works
- 1
Start a session on the event
It mints credentials scoped to that one event, with an expiry.
- 2
Enter them on the camera
Whichever of FTPS or SFTP your body supports — the setup picks the right one for the model.
- 3
Shoot
Frames arrive as the camera sends them. RAW files ride along as download-only originals.
- 4
Watch the monitor
Recent frames and a warning if nothing has arrived for a couple of minutes.
At a glance
- Protocols
- FTPS and SFTP — plain FTP refused
- Session life
- 12 hours, extending as you shoot
- Bodies
- Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic and more
- Accepted
- JPG/PNG/HEIC/WEBP/GIF, MP4/MOV, plus RAW
- Drop alert
- After ~2 minutes of silence
Availability
Rolling out behind a feature flag — it appears on an event once it is switched on for your studio.
Questions
- Does my camera support this?
- If it can transfer over a network to an FTP-style destination, very likely. The setup carries a model registry across the major makes and picks the right protocol per body — several support FTPS but not SFTP, and a few only transfer over Ethernet rather than Wi-Fi.
- Is it secure?
- Transfers are encrypted — plain FTP is refused outright on both the control and data channels. Credentials are minted per event, not per account, and expire on their own, so a session left on a rented body cannot reach anything later.
- What happens to my RAW files?
- They are stored as download-only originals and are never decoded on a device. The JPEG alongside them is what appears in the gallery and what gets indexed.
- What if the camera drops off mid-event?
- The live monitor flags it after about two minutes of silence, which is the point of the monitor — a Wi-Fi drop is silent on the camera itself and you would otherwise find out at the end of the night.
For photographers — more
- Publish from LightroomA publish service inside Lightroom Classic: drag photos in, hit publish, and they land in the event.
- AI CullScore a shoot for sharpness, exposure and near-duplicates, and review a shortlist instead of four thousand frames.
- Studio teamGive crew their own logins with scoped access — while earnings, KYC and billing stay yours alone.
- Delivery galleriesA cinematic cover, a justified grid and a lightbox — designed per event, ready to hand over.
- Your own branded galleryDeliver from a domain of your own, with your studio's mark and none of ours.