Are there any cameras that can connect over existing wifi?

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I am totally ignorant about the world of "professional" camera options available today, and I've been thinking about buying a DSLR for the first time instead of using my phone to take pictures of birds out my window.
I've used my partner's Pentax K-70 and I like it a lot, but the "wifi" connection is a cheap and crappy implementation whereby the wifi network is generated by the camera, and the camera isn't smart enough to connect to my existing wifi to let me get pictures off of it.
Are there any cameras that will connect to my actual wifi network and allow me to get photos off them without altering the settings on my phone / tablet?

Michael C · Answer

Some of Canon's extreme upper tier cameras allow the camera to join an existing network when using an external WFT (Wireless File Transmitter) unit. Even those cameras that also have internal WiFi capability, such as the EOS 1D X Mark III, require that the external WFT unit be used to join an external network.

Answered by Michael C on November 2, 2021

xenoid · Answer

It's not cheap and crappy. It is designed that way so you can use your phone to control your camera even when there is no Wifi (for instance, outdoors). And making your camera connect to some local Wifi would require to add some serious access control (you wouldn't want someone to steal the pictures in the camera).
But you can replace the SD card in the camera by a card than connect to Wifi networks.

Are there any cameras that can connect over existing wifi?

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