OM Image Share

I previously gave this app two stars and mentioned the slow transfer rate for wifi download, but the performance improved after formatting the SD card. I was also able to use my phone for other tasks that don’t require wifi or data connectivity. I have changed my rating to five stars and decided to write a new review. (I’m keeping the previous review at the end of this review for the record.) This app allows users to download photos from TG series cameras to iPhone without having to carry adapters or to take out the SD card from the camera. The added bonus is that I don’t even have to take out the camera from the marine case. The previous review: “The overall design of the app is not bad, and it’s nice not to have to carry an extra adapter for the SD card. But the WiFi transmission speed is excruciatingly slow, and I can’t use my phone for other tasks while waiting for the photos to be downloaded. It also does not allow me to transfer data while being charged via USB. When it comes to video data, I usually have to leave it on overnight, which means I wake up with an empty battery for the next morning’s dives. Not being able to sync donwload information across devices is also a problem because it results in duplicate donwloads. Good idea but needs a lot of improvements.”

The app and the interface are fine for basic functions. Not good, not excellent, just fine. Where this app really loses it is downloading from the camera to my iPhone. I currently have 231 RAW image files (stills) on my camera. I have no problems connecting to my camera (TG-6) and initiating the download, but it takes SO LONG to download that even when starting with a fresh battery, the camera goes dead before the app downloads all the photos. To make it worse, ALL information that does get downloaded is useless because the app needs to complete the ENTIRE download to finish the process. In other words, it doesn’t download all of image 1, then all of image 2, etc. it downloads 99% of image 1 then 99% of image 2, etc. and the last 1% of each file is written at the conclusion of the download process. So even after I leave my phone and camera connected for over 2 hours, when the camera battery dies I have ZERO photos on my phone. I have about 200 partial images taking up space that I have to delete in order to start the whole process over again.

I must apologize for my original review which was not flattering because my camera would not connect with the app. The truth of the matter is that it all works fine now. I use the Tough TG-4 and when I upgraded to this app from a previous version it so happens that I also had to do an iPhone complete reset before I ever tried to use the newly installed upgraded app. I had problems trying to get the app connected to the camera and became certain it was because the upgrade left out compatibility with the TG-4 but that’s not the case. I’ve since found that the phone reset caused some settings to change. Had to go to Settings and then scroll down to find OIShare then turn on Local Network to allow the app to connect to the camera’s WiFi. That was the problem so now all is good and the camera and app connect to each other effortlessly. I’ve found several features in the app very useful.