mcveed Loc: Kelowna, British Columbia (between trips)

http://www.dummies.com/photography/cameras/canon-camera/how-to-enable-wireless-on-your-canon-eos-6d/
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/self-help-center/eos-utility

I use the Olympus wifi and app onmy EM1MkII and it works just fine. You don't need a Can Ranger.

PGHphoto Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

You can use the autofocus (half shutter push) but can't use it to move the focus as if by hand. My comment about focus help is related to having the camera on a tripod in a very high or low position and trying to crouch or stretch to see the viewfinder. You can turn the focus ring by hand and be able to see the shot on your phone before you take it (just like you would in live view) without having to position yourself directly behind the camera.

Sam Dog

Thank you for the links.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Download Canon Connect SW from the Canon site.

Edit: oops, I see that has already been suggested. Since the 6D has WiFi, that should do it, or you can connect with a USB cable (15’ max length for passive cables).

YelveMaster Loc: southwestern New Hampshire

I have a Nikon D3400, so no wi-fi: I bought a cable (micro usb to usb C) and a copy of the app qdslr (just under $9). Now I can control my camera from my Android phone. For another $8 or so, I bought a mount that slides into the hot shoe and holds my phone. The obvious drawback is that my distance from the camera is limited by the cable length.

You can find out more at https://dslrdashboard.info/introduction/ I think you can download it to your computer for free, if you want to check it out.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

And if you want to go wireless, there is always the excellent CamRanger solution that has already been suggested.

wesm Loc: Los Altos CA

Yup. I do. I use both CamRanger, which is expensive, and the $25 knockoff. QdslDashboard is an app that can connect to a little wireless router that you modify by downloading new firmware, and then can control your Canon or Nikon. Both work really well, IF you invest a little time in their usage. Yes WiFi eats batteries, but it is the device that is broadcasting, not your camera. You can disable live view once you have your exposure parameters and focus set, then just take the shots themselves; also, disable loading the entire image, rather just a thumbnail to conserve. They can both do intervalometer-type stuff (star trails or timelapse), and at least one of them can also do focus stacking. You can use either one from either phone or tablet. I don't think it's really any more load on the camera battery than an ordinary (wired) remote trigger.

Kevin Sauer Photography

So as far as I've used a few different options, the wifi route where you can control settings and watch live view (extremely helpful) especially in situations where the camera isn't easily accessible (large downshots). I use Canon Camera Connect App on my Ipad with my 5DMKIV and I believe you can connect it with a smartphone as well but smaller frame ect...

My favorite use thus far was shooting the sunrise from the top of a parking garage on a cold Chicago morning. Set camera up on tripod frame it up and all then retreat to the heated glass elevator enclosement to snap away for an hour while the sun rises. Being able to control camera settings to deal with changing light conditions as well as being able to see the Live View as well as the shots all from the warmth of that little enclosure... *SNIFF* still brings a tear to my eye LOL.

I also have the Apps on my Ipad for Capture Pilot and Phocus. Capture Pilot is a remote app that works with Capture One, so your camera needs to be teathered to a computer running the program, and the ability to control the camera is extra (I believe $14.99 or so in the app store) CAPTURE PILOT IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR APPLE IOS at the current time so Ipads only.

Phocus does basically the same thing except for the much clunkier Hasselblad teatherd capture software Phocus (how you can sell a camera for $60,000 yet not be able to pay someone to create software that works smoothly and consistently still gets me extremely agitated when I think about it).

As well as an IR remote which is available on most android phones I've seen which is somewhat less useful. All it does is actuate the shutter, I've also had problems with this system because the IR sensor on my camera is next to the lens...if you're on the opposite side of the camera the sensor is blocked and won’t work...or if the camera is to low and the sensor can’t detect the IR beam...or to high...or if there is anything more opaque than glass that was just cleaned that the beam has to go through.

So overall the Canon Camera Conect App in my opinion is fantasticlly useful, the 3rd party software as well but reliant on being teathered to a regular computer and the IR Remote Apps are useful if the stars align and you have a phone that can use IR and has a clear line of sight to the sensor on your camera.

PS. On further reflection the only “Issue” I have with the Canon software is that the image that is accesible to download on your device is no a full resolution image. (There may be settings that allow you to access full res images I haven’t looked into it to much because the smaller file size is fine for uploading to social media and things like that.)

Hope this helps you asses your options.

Sam Dog

I think somewhere in my introduction I mentioned that I really am a novice. lol So much so that I have had lightroom 6 for 3 months and haven't opened it. Why? As stated i want to keep things natural. I may enhance color and clarity but that is it. I don't want any fancy stuff that, well quite frankly I didn't shoot. I do want to experience more of the Milky Way, love it, as my first time was last July and if I lived in Utah no one would ever see me. lol I love landscapes and cityscapes. Astrophotgraphy I want to add to my list but it's hard living in Indiana. Older small version of Indianapolis I shot.

Kevin Sauer Photography

My best advice for someone starting out is to LEARN your program.

Open up LR!! Lol. It's an amazing tool and not utilizing it is really going to hold you back Adobe editing software is the kinda thing you can grasp in a week but after about 15 years of utilizing LR, PS (Photoshop), ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) I still learn something new almost every day.

As far as what can be done in LR don't think of it as far as it making your pictures so they aren't real. Anything that can be done in LR used to be done in the darkroom it's nothing new just a different method.

So learn the program and use it to it's fullest the more you use it the more familiar you'll become with it. I believe Lynda.com has a free 30 day trial and their lessons are fantastic for new users, very thorough and easy to follow unlike some you tube videos that teach under the assumption that you're familiar with the software already.

JPL

Using pictures as the camera delivers them with little or no post processing is not about keeping things natural. It is about accepting camera limitations. You will never get what you really see into your pictures until you start post processing. Correcting shadows and highlights and colors and white balance is the minimum you need to do to keep things natural.

Sam Dog

Thank you all for the advice, I shall attempt to use LR by May. lol Hopefully earlier than that, you have me encouraged. I just use the HDR tool, clarity, enhance.

Sam Dog

Ok, I downloaded Canon Connect. I'm still in the process of learning it for my Canon 6D. So far I like it. I will have to play with it in manual sometime this week.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

I've gotten good results with DSLR Dashboard and a TP Link MR3040 minirouter. Recently, my router got "bricked" and it doesn't work anymore, and TP Link has discontinued it.

I am looking around for a new router - In the meantime, I am using the app on my android phone tethered with a cable to a D800. Works fine.

I did a blog post on this in 2014, when I had it working with my Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2

http://pixeldiarist.blogspot.com/2014/05/diy-wireless-remote-control-for.html