This works well with people, too. With street photography people almost always notice a big lens pointed in their direction if it has an operator standing behind it. Place that lens and camera on a table and look away towards your phone and you can achieve some interesting candid shots.
Interesting that there's GPS but no WIFI, something I use all the time on my 6D for remote shooting. I'm guessing that this is because of the magnesium-alloy body?
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Canon 6D 24-105L through a hotel window. Cleaned up in PS, ClassicCamera7 in Nik.
Yeah, thanks. I was off the machine taking photos when my friend put it through. Bad communication on my part- I knew there was a dock under the snow and assumed that he did, too. (The ice in the vicinity of any wooden structure is never good.) He didn't.
The only reason it didn't go...
I suspect that most 6D users turn GPS on and off as needed because leaving it enabled drains the battery flat within 3 days even with the camera turned off.
I leave it off for personal photos- I already know where I live and the privacy issues were obvious right from the introduction of my...
And let me add on 110a: People who don't stop to consider that the photography noob might be an expert in a completely different field and might actually be a fascinating individual. (Lest I sound too preachy- learned that one the hard way myself... :P )
110. People who forget that they were once "noobs".
111. People who forget that striking up a conversation about anything "banal" {Lovely weather, isn't it?}- is an attempt to form a connection, however fleeting, with another human being.