Canon EOS 6D Firmware Update

[Skirball]

The biggest annoyance I have is there doesn't seem to be a way to set the shutter speed to 1/180, unless a speedlite is attached, meaning my studio work done with dumb triggers has to be done at 1/160 even though 1/180 is possible. However I don't think that's something Canon will care about fixing, since they have a solution - buy 4 Canon 600EX-RTs....

If you set your intervals to 1/2 stop instead of 1/3 stop then you'll get 1/180. Not sure if it's worth the hassle though for an extra 1/20.

Curious though, have you tried firing at 1/200? I just realized that I haven't pushed it to see how far I can get away with. My 400D never bought me much, but I've heard of people having luck pushing past the max sync on other models.

 

[Area256]

If you set your intervals to 1/2 stop instead of 1/3 stop then you'll get 1/180. Not sure if it's worth the hassle though for an extra 1/20.

Curious though, have you tried firing at 1/200? I just realized that I haven't pushed it to see how far I can get away with. My 400D never bought me much, but I've heard of people having luck pushing past the max sync on other models.

Thanks for the tip! That works, and yeah a bit of a hassle for not much gain, but worth doing when working with strobes outside where every little bit helps.

I have tried shooting at 1/200, and I get a small black band at the bottom of the frame. So sadly it doesn't seem possible.

 

[Skirball]

If you set your intervals to 1/2 stop instead of 1/3 stop then you'll get 1/180. Not sure if it's worth the hassle though for an extra 1/20.

Curious though, have you tried firing at 1/200? I just realized that I haven't pushed it to see how far I can get away with. My 400D never bought me much, but I've heard of people having luck pushing past the max sync on other models.

Thanks for the tip! That works, and yeah a bit of a hassle for not much gain, but worth doing when working with strobes outside where every little bit helps.

I have tried shooting at 1/200, and I get a small black band at the bottom of the frame. So sadly it doesn't seem possible.

Good to know. I use RF-602s, so I didn't expect to push it with those, but it was worth looking at. That said, often the small black band isn't an issue in non-studio situations (i.e. foreground lit by ambient). I've even pulled the 'flip the camera upside down so the black band is in the sky' technique and pushed it to 1/250 with my 400D.

 

[Marsu42]

Consider me a little underwhelmed.

You will keep being underwhelmed, and this is actually one reason to get the 5d3 just as Canon intends to: Like the 60d, I don't expect anything to be added to the 6d firmware because that's a "silent feature" of the more expensive models like 7d/5d3.

*Maybe* they'll do some semi-bug fixes for things like gps timeouts and such, but hell will freeze over before of the "hard" features f8, 1/200 x-sync, 1/8k shutter will be changed. And if only because Canon will never admit that this is just a marketing software limitation.

I was hoping for f/8 AF and a fix for the always on nature of the GPS and it's resulting battery drain. I would like to see options for shut down (say auto shut off 10 minutes after the camera has been turned off). At minimum, on/off with the camera being powered on/off.

There already is a feature request to do gps off on power down with magic lantern, it's possible to do, feel free to +1 this request in the thread which will make it more likely to happen than when just one single user seems to want it: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5015.0

This is probably a long shot, but I would love to see an update down the road that increased max shutter speed from 1/4000 to 1/8000. It is rumored that this is just a software limiter and not a physical limitation to the shutter itself. Oh well, all of this gives ML something to play with.

It is just a software limitation, at least 1/8k works in some circumstances (like live view) but most of the thime Canon code keeps resetting it - the ml people are still working on it: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=3904.msg30746#msg30746