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New M6 Mark II with some questions

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RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,417
Re: New M6 Mark II with some questions

Badlagar wrote:

Hello @RLight, yes, I realized yesterday that 20% of the battery from my iPhone was used by the Canon CameraConnect every 24 hours. I was researching a little bit and I had the option "begin logging" enabled.

Yes, it's essentially just starting a collection to be sync'd.

I really do not know what is "begin logging" doing, but if you disable it the gps will still sync correctly as soon as you are in bluetooth range of the camera. So the battery issue is not an issue anymore. Battery was draining around 1% per hour and now will drain only the time the camera is active. In 1 hour session I expect to drain a 1% of the battery.

It may not be collecting accurate GPS data then when you re-sync the GPS data to the shots if that's the route you're going. Double check the shots accurately reflect GPS data. It may be it's only syncing the location at which you sync it back at.

I miss some good documentation about the app. It is not clear for me some aspects. For example if I shoot only raw and send the photos to the iPhone. Will be a jpg created?

Yes

What properties will have this jpg, same as shooting in jpg mode?

Good question, I don't know myself and wondered. My bet? It's an in-camera RAW to JPEG conversion; the results should be no different than if you did an in camera RAW to JPEG with no edits. The iPhone (probably) doesn't know what to do with that CR3 file. MacOS does, but that's because it gets a huge RAW processing library in the OS to include other RAW formats. iOS probably doesn't get this library in it's bundle and the camera is likely doing this conversion with defaults / settings at time of capture since you're not intervening on those settings at the time you upload it.

Regarding the shutter, makes sense that if at some point is broken, that you can still use the camera in electric mode but probably there is some build logic that force you repair it. Almost every brand have very clear how to do programmed obsoleteness and I would not be surprised if this is the case. But again, there is a good documentation from Canon explaining this edge cases.

Probably not. But this is probably something a camera shop or even google can assist with when you get there.

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