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Re: ISSUE: EOS R6 'freeze' glitch.
Marco Nero wrote:
I was taking photographs at night with a tripod a few nights ago and my EOS R6 camera froze up immediately after taking a photograph. The buttons and touch screen were frozen. Nothing worked. I had to turn the camera off and then back on again to reset it. The other reports I have seen required the battery to be removed and then reinserted. I seem to have lost the image I had just taken. No bursts. No absurdly high ISO. No long exposures because I was shooting in a well lit carpark and wanted to replicate my visual experience.
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The camera froze up on the 6500th JPEG image (since purchase).
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SETTINGS: JPEG | 85mm | ISO 2000 | f/2.8 | 1/25sec | Mech-Shutter
MEMORY CARD: Sandisk ExtremePro SDXS 128GB UHS-II 300MB/s
EQUIPMENT: EOS R6 + RF 85mm f/1.2L USM lens on a Manfrotto Tripod.
NOTES 1: Ambient Temperature was 20C.
NOTES 2: SD card was Low Level Formatted before use.
BATTERY: 89%
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Just thought I'd mention it here since others may have encountered a similar glitch. It's often good to make a note for others to be aware of any potential issue. I do recall at least two members with R5s mentioning their cameras seized up briefly but that they had to remove the battery to get it to reset. I can't say I've had this happen with any other digital camera before. I took 315 pictures on that day and there was no problem afterwards, nor the following day.
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I do a lot of Astro photography and specifically Astro timelapse. In recent years its been EOS 5D Mk2 and 7DMk2. I upgraded recently to an R6, and I'm loving the low light performance and the simplicity of focussing in almost pitch dark.
However I have a serious issue very similar to your report above which is affecting my ability to take overnight time-lapses reliably. I use external PD power and also an external intervalometer. I also use qDslrDashboard for ramping control for longer time-lapses including sunset and sunrise.
My problem is that in cold weather I suspect below about 10-12'C (50f) the camera is randomly switching off and is completely un-responsive until the power is removed and the battery removed and re-inserted. The time between these lock-ups can be a few minutes or a few hours. Canon have had the camera back for testing and found no problem, but their 'tests' were not valid as they did not use the same set-up. Any suggestions gratefully received. The setup works flawlessly on my DSLRs.--
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