Imaging Edge Mobile

Sony Corporation

About this app

Imaging Edge Mobile allows images/videos to be transferred to a smartphone/tablet, enables remote shooting, and provides location information to images captured by a camera.

■ Transfer images from a camera to a smartphone
- You can transfer images/videos.
- The selection and transfer of images after shooting are no longer needed as the automatic background transfer function allows images to be transferred to a smartphone as they are captured. *1
- High bit rate video files including 4K can be transferred. *2
- You can view and transfer images in your camera from your smartphone even when the camera is turned off. *2
- After transferring, you can immediately share your high quality images on social networks or through email.
*1 See here for supported cameras. Files are imported in 2MP size when using this function.
https://www.sony.net/dics/iem12/
*2 See here for supported cameras. Availability of video transfer and playback varies depending on smartphone in use.
https://www.sony.net/dics/iem12/

■ Remote shooting of a camera using a smartphone
- You can capture photos/videos remotely while checking the live view of a camera on a smartphone. *3
This is convenient for capturing night views or water flowing scenes which need long-exposure, or macro shooting in which you need to avoid to directly touch the camera.
*3 Models that support PlayMemories Camera Apps can use this feature by installing "Smart Remote Control" (in-camera app) on your camera in advance.
http://www.sony.net/pmca/

■ Record location information
- With cameras that have a location information linkage function, the location information acquired by the smartphone can be added to the captured image in your camera.
For supported models and detailed operation methods, see the support page below.
https://www.sony.net/dics/iem12/
- Even with cameras that do not have a location information linkage function, it is possible to add location information acquired by your smartphone to the photos saved on your smartphone during remote shooting.

■Save and Apply Settings
- You can save up to 20 camera settings in Imaging Edge Mobile.
You can also apply a saved setting to a camera. *4
*4 See here for supported cameras. Save and Apply Settings are supported only for cameras with the same model name.
https://www.sony.net/dics/iem12/

■ Notes
- Supported operating systems: Android 8.0 to 13.0
- This app is not guaranteed to work with all smartphones/tablets.
- Features/Functions available for this app vary depending on the camera you are using.
- For supported models and information on features/functions, see the support page below.
https://sony.net/iem/

Ratings and reviews

Does most of what you'd expect (remote live view, browse photos, download photos, etc). The problem... Sony it's 2022 and I can't fully control my camera from my phone. Sure I have remote release and lots of other fancy bits but you don't offer the ability to control time exposures beyond what the camera does natively...? This is a serious and unfortunate oversight. You offer bulb mode, why not allow us to control the time for long exposures without buying third party?

Sometimes works. Latest version abruptly decided that it could no longer connect to a camera that it had been working perfectly with for a year. Took over an hour to reconnect and now it's mostly functional. A big corporation like Sony should really have a better app for its cameras. The Olympus app I use for a much cheaper camera is about 1000x better.

It's really strange that on the 7RM4, raw files are converted to 2MB JPEG files when transferring to the phone, but the camera will gladly send enormous video files over untouched. The full resolution JPEG or raw isn't useful most of the time on mobile, but it could be if I wanted to crop out some small detail to quickly send someone... The phone will handle it fine, it spits out 100+MP JPEGs from its own tiny sensor if I tell it to...

What's new

- Fixes an issue where the Location Information Linkage may not work properly.
- Adds support for the Android 13.0 operating system.
- Adds support for the ILME-FX30 camera.