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eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control

Started Oct 8, 2019 | Discussions thread
Intech New Member • Posts: 1
Re: eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control
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The Canon M6 MKII is spectacular in every sense except where it comes to shooting with a Flash which is basically a total disaster for outdoor photography with a external flash for fill.  In daylight you need the EVF to see what you are shooting as the display screen is not daylight viewable.

Also there is not a PC flash cable connection to an external flash.

The hot shoe is slightly deeper with an end stop for depth.

when an EVF is used it is slightly longer with a row contacts to mate deeper in the center section of the hot shoe.  This covers the hot shoe contacts and the EVF does not use any of the hot shoe contacts.  And there is NO hot shoe adapter so that the EVF and hot shoe  for and external flash can be used.

I am looking into the possibility of a making a ultra-thin flex circuit pcb  that can go under the EVF and make contact with the flash hot shoe contacts and then mount the flash on a  SmallRig cage in front of the EVF where the flash would normally sit.

I am also looking at getting an additional EVF ver 1 or ver 2 to see if I can use the front contacts and remove a portion of the rear portion to again make a ultra pcb to make contact withthe hot shoe contacts.  Unless Canon in their wisdom totally disables the hot shoe when the EVF is in place.

Another options that is very much less practical but possible is to use a hot shoe optical trigger for a flash.  The M6 tiny flash will trigger a external flash mount on a cold shoe.  The trick is to have the external flash settings set correctly by manual methods since there is not any TTL for flash output control.  A little more trial and error.  Does not work well if you have several subjects and different lighting background scenes.  A lot more of trial and error.  B&H and Amazon sell many Flash Triggers from $10 on up.   When the M6 flash fires the photo cell in the flash trigger fires the external flash mounted in its shoe or by PC cord.

If anyone has tried a flex circuit or a flash trigger then please chime in as I have read hundreds of questions from M6 MKII owners looking for a solution.

getting access to the hot shoe flash contacts is key and a vital element engineering and marketing left out.  Unless they never intended the user to use an external flash in daylight with a EVF.  A very simple pass thorough adapter with a cable adapter to a external hot shoe for $100-$200 would make this a Great Great All Around Camera.

-or- Canon could make a M series TTL Flash or external TTL hot shoe adapter controlled by the USB C on the side of the M6 MKII camera.

Until then, an External Flash or TTL Flash and EVF use is not possible period and a T-Total design failure.

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