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Best Android app for managing/converting/uploading Canon CR2 images?

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So, in short I'm doing a convention and dusting off my old T4i Rebel with some fresh batteries since a phone can be a but sluggish and less than ideal for nice photos.  I mean, talk about megapixels all you want, it can't compare to a nice prime lens.  However to keep things light I have no intention of dragging along my laptop for managing images once they've been taken.  Instead I ordered an OTG USB Type C SD Card reader.  Obviously JPEGs will 'just work' on an android phone and I can upload to Facebook and Twitter from there, but I'm curious if there are any tools for reading Canon CR2 raw images and converting them JPEG or doing a direct conversion/upload and such to social media or the like.

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1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said:

So, in short I'm doing a convention and dusting off my old T4i Rebel with some fresh batteries since a phone can be a but sluggish and less than ideal for nice photos.  I mean, talk about megapixels all you want, it can't compare to a nice prime lens.  However to keep things light I have no intention of dragging along my laptop for managing images once they've been taken.  Instead I ordered an OTG USB Type C SD Card reader.  Obviously JPEGs will 'just work' on an android phone and I can upload to Facebook and Twitter from there, but I'm curious if there are any tools for reading Canon CR2 raw images and converting them JPEG or doing a direct conversion/upload and such to social media or the like.

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Does your camera have wifi/nfc? If it has, it also probably has wifi to transfer and convert your images to your phone, atleast that is the case with Sony cameras...

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Not sure why you would want to use the raw images and straight convert them to JPEG for upload. Raw images would look worse than your JPEG ones unless you do your own processing for them.

 

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Does your camera have wifi/nfc? If it has, it also probably has wifi to transfer and convert your images to your phone, atleast that is the case with Sony cameras...

The T4i doesn't have wireless. 

 

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1 minute ago, DarkEnergy said:

The T4i doesn't have wireless. 

In that case the Google play store is full of RaW convertors, at least one of them is supossed to work right?

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3 minutes ago, Some Random Member said:

Does your camera have wifi/nfc? If it has, it also probably has wifi to transfer and convert your images to your phone, atleast that is the case with Sony cameras...

No, the Canon Rebel T4i/EOS 650D is an older consumer body from 2012, it lacks fancy things like that.  Hence why I'll be using a OTG SDCard reader.

 

4 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

Not sure why you would want to use the raw images and straight convert them to JPEG for upload. Raw images would look worse than your JPEG ones unless you do your own processing for them.

I'm hoping for an experience akin to Adobe Bridge but on Android.  Where I can manipulate the metadata for color temps, contrast  and stuff and do limited changes before uploading.

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Adobe Lightroom for mobile works really well. On ios its almost as capable as the desktop version. Of course not as fast but defentivly nice to use on the go. 

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Lightroom CC on Android is now as powerful as the desktop version. I don't see major differences anymore.

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Lightroom CC for mobile, I used to use snapseed before that but its not that reliable.

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Seems like a lot of support for Light Room.  I'll have to check that out.

 

On a side note, it does seem that Android itself has SOME native support for CR2, at least in 8.0.  It can't do much to preview them but it can apparently directly decode them and upload CR2 images as JPEG to Twitter and Facebook.  But even just pinch zooming or editing are offlimits.

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11 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

 

On a side note, it does seem that Android itself has SOME native support for CR2, at least in 8.0.  It can't do much to preview them but it can apparently directly decode them and upload CR2 images as JPEG to Twitter and Facebook.  But even just pinch zooming or editing are offlimits.

It's probably the jpeg which is embedded in the raw.

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