I tend to do this when I put my camera down. Bad habit? Situational dependent? Or just muscle memory?
Do you do this? And why/ why not?
Do you do this? And why/ why not?
Do you flick your camera off when setting it down?
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I tend to turn my camera off, probably far too often. :-\ Force of habit. For my type of shooting, it is not adversly affected by turning the camera on.
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RLPhoto said:
I usually turn it on before I set out on a shooting session, and I would only turn it off if/when I need to change lens or put in a new CF card. Normally it awakens quickly from its standby state when I need to fire off a burst of shots, and I don't see any other need to turn it off. I want to be as ready as I can be.
I have to add that Magic Lantern seem to fiddle a bit with the body's behaviour, and I notice a delay before it wakes from standby.
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RLPhoto said:
I do, and it grew from the fact that I have always disabled sleep mode, and in older cameras with poorer battery life it was a habit I got into to get more battery time.
Interestingly a lot of my work now is on a tripod and I had stopped switching it off between setups because I was using a Canon WFT and sometimes it wouldn't reconnect without hassle, but now I use a CamRanger that reconnects very well and I am switching the camera off again.
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I always switch my Camera off when I don't expect to shot any photo within the next few minutes. And when I change CF cards.RLPhoto said:
In any other situation it stays on and standby.
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I leave it always on during the day. only for storing I will switch it off. For placing another memory card (CF) I also switch it off. For switching lenses, I mostly don't switch off the camera.
Never had any problem.
Never had any problem.
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Turning the camera off and on uses the battery up much quicker. It takes less energy in "standby" than powering up from the OFF candition.
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I leave mine on unless I'm putting it away for a week or more. It goes to sleep (No auto off) and uses very little power in the sleep mode, so the battery will tale 3 months to discharge.
Those a 6D or 7D MK II with GPS have a big issue, the GPS does not shut off when the power switch is turned off. You must disable GPS or pull the battery, or it will run down relatively quickly. That's a spare battery selling feature
Those a 6D or 7D MK II with GPS have a big issue, the GPS does not shut off when the power switch is turned off. You must disable GPS or pull the battery, or it will run down relatively quickly. That's a spare battery selling feature
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Hi Folks.
I have never turned a camera off, with the exception of storage, then it is as likely to go away without a battery in it.
I have always used the auto sleep at between 1 and 4 minutes. Sometimes with my 300D I would use a longer time but only because the wake time was quite noticeable.
I have never even thought to turn it off to change cards or lenses, I looked at the lens contacts and decided they were designed to connect/ disconnect in the correct order to avoid damage. Just don't remove a lens whilst IS is still active, I hear this can cause problems?
It seems there is not much point in turning off the more recent cameras due to the transmissive LCD viewfinder, it flattens the battery anyway!
Cheers, Graham.
I have never turned a camera off, with the exception of storage, then it is as likely to go away without a battery in it.
I have always used the auto sleep at between 1 and 4 minutes. Sometimes with my 300D I would use a longer time but only because the wake time was quite noticeable.
I have never even thought to turn it off to change cards or lenses, I looked at the lens contacts and decided they were designed to connect/ disconnect in the correct order to avoid damage. Just don't remove a lens whilst IS is still active, I hear this can cause problems?
It seems there is not much point in turning off the more recent cameras due to the transmissive LCD viewfinder, it flattens the battery anyway!
Cheers, Graham.
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Funny, I left both my gripped 7dMII and 5dIII on last night by mistake - I was a little excited - see attached photo in next post.
My 7dII had 24 / 30 % left in each battery, and the 5dIII did a little better at 34/38 %, so I guess the drain is not too bad. Don't remember how much was left at the end of my day, but I didn't shoot the CAMERAs too much - was too busy with my crossbow....
My 7dII had 24 / 30 % left in each battery, and the 5dIII did a little better at 34/38 %, so I guess the drain is not too bad. Don't remember how much was left at the end of my day, but I didn't shoot the CAMERAs too much - was too busy with my crossbow....
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RLPhoto said:
I'm using Magic Lantern, and one of the few drawbacks is the longer startup time (+ ~2 seconds). As I put down my camera a *lot*, it's not "worth it".
In addition, I'm uneasy about the lifetime of the switch. I think it was Mt Spokane who wrote in a recent "IS on or off" thread that switches only last so long, even good ones. As I don't own top-notch gear, I guess that switching on/off my 6d 5x a day or 50x a day might result in ~300€ service cost or not on the long run.
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