R6III + Godox Flashes = Error 70 --- anyone else experience this problem?

[tosha187]

Hello everyone.
Ever since getting the R6 Mark III about a month and a half ago, I've been having this problem happen with close to 100% repeatability.

Whenever I use more than one Godox Flash. And trigger both of them. The camera freezes, usually stuck displaying the moment of shutter release, sometimes I got an error 70. With testing I've managed to narrow it down to the specific scenario of where the focus mode is in SERVO.

So whenever the camera is in SERVO, and I am triggering more than one GODOX flash the camera freezes. Every time.
I'm using the latest GODOX V480c V100c and X3c trigger. In various combinations their effect is always the same.
As soon as I turn on a second flash while in SERVO, the camera freezes on the image - it gets saved in the camera,
though I've had a few that appear to not have a proper date.

I wrote to Godox - they said they don't have the camera for testing yet. And thanked me for the feedback.
Amazing.
What I am afraid of, is that this is some kind of new Canon cripple hammer thing.
Though I'm sure they can fix it with firmware updates. As soon as they get to it, hopefully soon.

Has anyone else gotten the R6III camera and has encountered or can test out this issue?

Thanks.

 

[Kiton]

While I do not have any direct help to offer you, this sort of thing is why I sold off all my Godox after going mirrorless with the R5. Too many glitches.

I have 6 Canon flashes and 4 Yongnuo which are only used as off camera flash on manual settings and Canon does reject sync with the Yongnuo often, I try to never let the flashes go to sleep once they are all in sync.

The newer flashes, the EL 5 type, have a hot shoe that is very marginally bigger then the older 600 series and they do not fit in all my stands with cold shoes, so I have to retrofit all my stands!

At the risk of getting some member's panties in a knot about the cripple hammer.......
I would not put it past Canon to try and force you to buy branded gear.

 

[tosha187]

Dude I was using the V5 with three canon and one youngnuo, they gave me nothing but pain and misery because they kept disconnecting.

Since switching to go I never had issues even if I leave a room for two hours I come back in and keep shooting immediately. And the thing doesn't die. The EL5 hot shoe thing that they did the castration and made it "better".
So I got some corrosion in my R6 mark two in the connector is there I guess, but the flash keeps sending the camera into error lock, and I have to fix it now while, normal "analog "connectors like the work fine, the Canon hot shoe thing was a solution without a problem, and the whole RF communication thing is completely messed up and they won't even admit it for 10 years now.

The new godox flashes are insane, the V 100 battery just doesn't end I shoot seven hour events with it just popping off, pop pop poppop....
and the new V480 small flash that I use to control everything it's just tiny but still uses a lithium battery, unlike the Canon 430ex camera still uses AA batteries.

Let's admit the obvious, as it is right now the Canon FLASH system is kind of dead in the water, and they know it themselves also
That's why they discontinued their flagship EL1 monstrosity.
they were trying to engineer the competition out of the system, instead they engineered a new ERROR potential that somehow always bricks the camera at the most critical moments.
Maybe nobody was buying those EL5's but buying GODOX instead, so they found a nice interesting way to sabotage that .

 

[Kiton]

"Let's admit the obvious, as it is right now the Canon FLASH system is kind of dead in the water, and they know it themselves also"

I think you are correct, Canon knows that they over designed their control and screwed it up, and priced themselves out of the biggest sector of the market.
My camera shop laughed when I asked them to order 2x EL 5 flashes.
He said, he almost never sells branded flash gear today.

I was shooting a museum curator last week with one EL5 on a stand and a shoot thru umbrella and it lost sync in the middle of a 10 minute shoot!
I pop the battery and in connects again.

I have found neither perform in a solid manner

It makes me want to go back to a Vivitar 285 and a quantum battery pack!



"they were trying to engineer the competition out of the system, instead they engineered a new ERROR potential that somehow always bricks the camera at the most critical moments.
Maybe nobody was buying those EL5's but buying GODOX instead, so they found a nice interesting way to sabotage that"

you mean, the Canon cripple hammer, again?