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eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control

Started Oct 8, 2019 | Discussions thread
ken_in_nh Senior Member • Posts: 2,399
Re: eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control

kli wrote:

mouzhik wrote:

... Why would they cripple even such small things???

Because it makes the camera cheaper/simpler/easier to manufacture, probably. Or maybe there's just not enough space in the body to add the chip that does that function onto the board.

Also because Godox has probably made such inroads on their flash sales, that they all assume you'd more likely purchase an $85 TT350-C or a $110 TT685-C and a $70 XPro-C rather than a $500 600EX II-RT and a $300 ST-E3-RT v2.

Much more likely it's because Canon's target market for the M cameras are shooters that don't typically use auxiliary flash!  Canon expects the folks that do want to do so will buy the R series.  Keep in mind that the more "serious" M cameras were launched about the same time as the R series.

I can also assure you that chip size has little to do with it.  Just look up SMD and see how tiny they are.  Space is tight in these cameras, but not that tight.

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