hey what's up it's Jerad with Ditch Auto and I'm gonna teach you how to backup
your images from your camera to your Samsung Galaxy S 9 and this is gonna
work with a few different generations of the S phone also with the note basically
any of the Samsung phones that allow you to connect an external device to it it's
gonna work but I only know for sure that it's gonna work with the s9 the s8 the
Galaxy Note 8 and for any of you crazies out there that might still have a note 7
it would work there too those are the only devices that I've actually
physically connected USB devices to and actually had it work so what's cool
about this and the reason that we're going to do this is because when you're
out in the field and you're shooting and you know you have your SD card here and
a lot of people are looking for options to actually back the images up off of
their camera so they have them in two different places so if you have your
images on your camera on the SD card what are your alternatives well you can
carry around a laptop with you and you can copy them over onto a laptop or you
could buy one of those expensive devices that are made for backing up images from
your camera or taking the SD card out and putting it into something else I
mean there are lots of options as far as how to backup your stuff but what about
how to back it up to the phone they already have in your pocket now my
Galaxy S 9 plus here has a 64 gigabyte SD card in it and I have another SD card
micro sd card that I just got 128 gig 1 which would hold a lot of stuff I mean
that's a pretty big card and you can get 256 gig cards SD cards micro SD cards
but they're still a little expensive I'll make sure to link to all this stuff
down in the description below so I have a couple of photos on my camera this is
the this is the a7 3 the Sony a7 3 in my camera is a 64 gig card but there's only
a few photos on there for the purposes of doing this this example here so what
you're going to need because in this camera we have a we actually have a USB
type-c connector if your cameras a little bit older and
you only have like the micro USB then this is just fine but you need the
appropriate cord to go from your camera to your phone and so because this has
USB type-c my phone has USB type-c I can just use a USB C to USBC cable and go
between the two but if you had a slightly older camera that had micro USB
you would need a micro USB to USB C cable for your phone you know or if
you're using maybe a different type of camera you just need the appropriate
connection to go between the two and you can get short little cables like this on
Amazon I'll link to several different ones below and then you just need to
look and see which cable you're going to need based on what connection you have
on your camera and what kind of phone you have but the last couple of
generations of the Samsung Galaxy phones and the note line of their phones have
had USB C and the reason that I'm focusing on the Samsung phones here is
because the Samsung phone lets you put a micro SD card in it whereas a lot of the
other phones these days are not allowing for expandable storage and so it's hard
to use your phone as a backup device because you don't have a whole lot of
storage room on your phone so what we're going to do is we're gonna connect our
camera to the phone and we're going to copy over all the images that are on the
camera to the phone so now we have our backup in two different places and then
what's cool with the phones is that you can actually then use the like your
cloud service whichever one you're using maybe you're using Google photos or
onedrive or any of those cloud services to then backup your images to the cloud
but we'll talk about that at the end let's take this one step at a time so
I've got the port off the side of my camera here I'm going to go ahead and
plug in the cable to that I'm going to make sure that my camera is turned on
and so I'm doing this from a Sony but most cameras do allow you to connect to
I mean this is basically like unplugging my camera into my computer to copy
images so if you have Kanon it's gonna work if you have an
icon it's gonna work what you do have to put your your USB into MTF mode I think
is what it's called so on this camera in particular I have options here for the
USB connection by default it was set to auto now I need to put it to MTP which
is for transferring files to another device mass storage would be making for
when you're connected to the computer but you don't even have to you can leave
it in auto if you have a camera like this and you connect it to a computer
the phone so far is the only one that I found where you actually have to be
specific so now that I have that connected I'm gonna go ahead and unlock
my phone and I just have to have my phone unlocked I'm gonna go ahead and
plug the cable in and it's gonna automatically as you can see go into
that MTP mode here and it's gonna ask me for an application to use with with my
USB device my camera now you're gonna want to choose downloads and choose
always so that it always opens it up in the Downloads app and you can see here
that I have my folder now it says my camera name my seven mark three storage
media and it gives me the date of the images like the images they're just a
few images I took today if you've had images from multiple days there would be
multiple days worth of folders here so I want to copy the whole I mean I can go
and look inside the folder and you can see my images I have both the raw and
the JPEG images there because my camera was shooting in raw plus JPEG so first
thing we need to do is actually select the images or select this folder so
we're gonna tap and hold and you can see that it is selected we'll go up to the
little menu here and then tap copy to and it's going to ask us where we want
to copy it to over in the top left hand corner we're gonna tap here and then
choose our SD card and now you can see we have our SD card here I can create a
folder if I wanted to so top right hand corner new folder I'll call it camera
backup okay now we're in that folder topkapi and it's gonna go ahead and
start copying now it's going to show us in the notifications here that we're
doing some backup and so the copying of the files is taking place that says that
it's still connected to that camera and that the files are backing up and so
this process may take a little while like if you have hundreds of images on
your camera this process may take a little while so you're gonna want to
make sure that both your camera has a good charge and your phone has a good
charge because it's hard to actually plug either one of these into the
charger and do this so I recommend not trying to do like a thousand images or
whatever only backup what you need to - your phone because I'm really only
backing up like I think eight images but because they're both raw and JPEG
there's like 16 images I think and it's taken this amount of time just for 16
images so now that is backed up and I can actually disconnect the phone from
my camera and I can go into the image gallery on my phone and you can see
those images are there actually that was only four images now I get the little
icon here saying it's like an exclamation point because the phone
itself can't actually read those RAW images but the raw images are there so I
could see my JPEG images so these are my I just went and took some pictures of my
mining rig computers but I also have those those RAW images there as well
which is great so now they're backed up and I can also go and the my files app I
can then go to the SD card I can go to camera backup here's the folder of
today's images and you can see I've got the raw images and the JPEGs and some of
them are big those are 24 megabyte images and then the JPEGs are like 7 to
8 megabytes in size and so that's quite a bit of data that it was copying over
there so it's gonna take a little bit of time but now I have a whole backup so I
don't even I mean it's great that they're on my camera still I'm if I go
and import them to my computer I'm gonna take the SD card out of my camera and
put that in the computer but for safety and security
I have them backed up to my phone now now if you want to back these up to the
cloud that's another option for keeping your images safe so for me I use Google
images because Google images gives me unlimited photo backup for free
they're not the original images there is going to be a little bit of compression
but for me that's a backup that I'm willing to have that's a sacrifice I'm
willing to make because at least I have a backup so what you're gonna need to do
is go and open up the Google Photos app it probably came pre-installed on your
phone if it did not go and download it from the Google Play Store and then open
it up and sign in with your your Google account so your sign in with your Google
account or create a Google account and you'll I have a bunch of other photos in
here already if I tap on albums you can see under photos on device I have some
folders here here's a folder right here of those images because those are on the
SD card now i can turn on backup and sync and Google's gonna back up those
images to the cloud for me and they'll be backed up now if you are going to do
this you'll want to make sure with these big files to make sure that you are not
backing up over your cellular data because if you don't have unlimited
cellular data you may wipe straight through that for example if I had 20
gigabytes of images on an SD card here and I copied those over to my phone and
then I backed those up and it backed them up over my data plan that would eat
up 20 gigabytes and data and even on an unlimited plan you only get a certain
amount of data before they start to slow you down so you want to make sure that
you are not using your your cellular data for backup and if you want to
assure that you can go into the menu here and go into settings and then I
believe it's under backup and sync and then cellular backup and you'll want to
make sure cellular backup is turned off so cellular data backup turned off that
means the only time that this is going to backup to the cloud is when it's
connected to a Wi-Fi network and when it's connected to Wi-Fi then it
goes and does the backup but personally I don't
necessarily think that you need to do that that's kind of overkill in my
opinion now that my photos that I had on my camera backed up to my phone I have
my photos in two different places you know when I used to shoot events and I
wasn't done for the day like maybe I shot an event and I still had to I
wanted to go get dinner or something like that I would take my SD cards out
of my camera and I would keep them on me and I'd be carrying around SD cards and
a little SD card holder in my pocket and if I was to do this instead copy all my
images from here over to my phone then I have all of them on my phone I can leave
my camera and my camera bag I don't have to take my SD cards out enough to worry
about that so it's another way of me backing stuff up so an alternatively if
I wanted to then go and even edit some of these photos and maybe share them on
Instagram or something like that they're already on my phone so I can go
and open them up and whatever photo editing app because they're here I can
open up this image and I can start to edit it and do like whatever I wanted to
do to it and then post it to social media from my phone so those images are
even ready to now do other stuff with so it's just cool that you can do this on
the Galaxy S nine of course you can do this on a lot of Android phones but the
fact that the Galaxy S nine allows you to do expandable storage with a micro SD
card it gives you enough storage space to where you can actually make use of
that so I mean say worst case scenario I have my phone on me my camera gets
stolen or broken or whatever I lose everything here I don't even have this
SD card anymore because I copied my RAW images over or
and even my JPEGs I copied both over to the phone I can take the micro SD card
out of here I could put it in my computer and I can copy all those images
over to my computer and it's like I never lost anything at all and then when
I'm done when I know that I don't need those images anymore I could come back
to the my files app here go into the SD card go into my camera backup folder tap
and hold here tap on delete and then those images off of my phone to free up
space again so a very cool solution I mean companies make solutions like this
and you have to pay a hundred two hundred bucks to be able to do this but
with the Galaxy S nine you could actually do it right from your phone
just by having a cable so check out the links in the description below I've got
links to the different cables that you might need I've got links to some micro
SD cards for your Galaxy S nine and if you're considering a galaxy s 9 I even
have a link to where you could pick one of those up on Amazon anytime you click
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solution that works like this and something that actually adds value I
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