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Owners of newer Canon cameras just received some good news: your cameras can now automatically upload and backup photos and videos to the photo management platform, Google Photos.
“If you own a DSLR or point-and-shoot camera, you know that getting your photos backed up can be a process,” Google writes on its blog. “You often need cables or adapters to take them off of your camera or SD card and save them, and it might take a number of steps to get it all done. But now there’s a new integration between Canon with Google Photos that allows for automatic image backups over Wi-Fi.”
For those of you wondering, the launching by Google Photos of a partner program for third-party integrations is actually not new—it was launched a couple of years ago—but Canon is the latest company to participate. Google and Canon recently worked together to integrate Google Photos into the image.canon app that’s available on Android and iOS.
According to Google, if you have a compatible Canon camera model that can be connected to the image.canon app—recent DSLR and mirrorless cameras are all compatible—you can set up automatic transfers in the app, ensuring that original photos are sent to the Google Photos cloud without you having to deal with the files on your computer or phone.
“We’ve worked with Canon so you can easily upload the moments captured on your Canon devices directly to Google Photos over Wi-Fi—no plugging in your camera or taking out your SD card,” says Google.
One caveat that exists, though, is that you’ll need a Google One subscription to unlock the cloud storage benefit. Google is offering Canon users a free month of Google One, providing up to 100GB of cloud storage as well as other member benefits. For more information, check out the Google One site.