topic Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6 in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 20:18:55 GMT

My Rebel T6 will not connect to my Lenovo computer so I cannot transfer my photos. I have the WiFi NFC disabled.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

kvbarkley — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:59:26 GMT

Does your computer have a card reader?

What version of Windows? You should be able to use the Canon software.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:03:28 GMT

Windows 10. Downloaded the software but no luck as yet.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

John_ — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:21:36 GMT

Are they both on the same 2.4 GHz SSID?

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:22:12 GMT

OMG. The what now? That is out of my sphere of knowledge.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

John_ — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:06 GMT

My mistake, you are trying to connect via a cable yes? And you have the EOS software on the computer?

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:29:07 GMT

correct

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

kvbarkley — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:34:02 GMT

Do you have a card reader slot?

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:28:07 GMT

Yes. It did not work either. I am beginning to think there may be a problem with my computer. I finally was able to get the pictures loaded using a different USB port and the Lenovo picture manager.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

Wolfie0827 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:58:56 GMT

Lenovo computers do have a rep for having bad connections (USB, VGA, HDMI, ...) on thier laptops and some desktop models too. When I did tech support for PC's i would recommend against Lenovo products to most of my customers. If you really need all the connectors working right and don't mind the expense, find a repair shop that does real repairs rather than replacements and have them check it over fully or buy a new laptop.

If either of those are too expensive then just check which ports work and make sure you use those only.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

2z — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:48:19 GMT

Thanks for the help guys. For now I will have to limp along with the Lenovo since I just spent $$ on the camera. Guess a new laptop will be on my wish list. Any suggestions as to what is good these days.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

Wolfie0827 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:32:29 GMT

Good ones even low end would be Dell, HP, Toshiba, Asus, or Acer. While Lenovo are ok (If you get one that actually went through true QA or was refurbished) They have a reputation for having poor soldering at times.

The others mentioned above, while not all ways the best generally have better Quality Control and less problems due to that.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

Waddizzle — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:04:09 GMT

@2z wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. For now I will have to limp along with the Lenovo since I just spent $$ on the camera. Guess a new laptop will be on my wish list. Any suggestions as to what is good these days.

Photo processing is not low end laptop work. You really need a laptop with an NVidia graphics card: like a workstation or a gaming computer. I would stick with a genuine Intel Inside, like a Dell. Lots of complaints from Asus and Acer owners on the forums.

I recently bought a 32GB Dell gaming laptop on sale for under $1000. It has a primary 500 MB solid state hard drive, a 1TB secondary hard drive for data storage, and an NVidia 4GB video card with 4K output. I hardly have any of the problems that most people seem to complain about. All of my applications are stored on the SSD drive, and use it as a paging file.

Re: Getting pictures off Rebel T6

Wolfie0827 — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:05:39 GMT

I agree with Waddizzle, If you plan on doing a lot of editing work you will want a higher end system with a dedicated video card. But for the issue you asked about (getting images from camera to computer) any laptop, high or low end, will do for that as well as for posting images and/or printing of images. Just Lenovo does have issues with there soldering of port connections being poorly done. Which is why I don't recommend them.

Don't get me wrong, There systems are good for the price, just they do run into the soldering issue a lot more often than any other manufacturer that I know of.