Arsenal: I saw an ad for Arsenal II on Facebook today and was wondering what it does? Would it somehow take over my R6's settings and make things better? Does anyone here use Arsenal...

mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

I saw an ad for Arsenal II on Facebook today and was wondering what it does? Would it somehow take over my R6's settings and make things better? Does anyone here use Arsenal, how, does it help, is it worh the purchase price? Just curious, looking for some clarification.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Bad reviews on it.

krl48 Loc: NY, PA now SC

SEARCH "Arsenal" via UHH's SEARCH function and your curiosity will be more than satisfied.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

When I saw the title, I thought you might be discussing the English football team. I have no idea what this other Arsenal is. (Yes, I will Google it.)

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

gvarner wrote:

Bad reviews on it.

I take it the emphasis was on "Arse".

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Lots of old threads here on it. Do a search and you will find it is not well received.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I is old school,
I first think of a Soviet brand of cameras.
From what I hear from actual users, it's kinda like a golf trainer.
If you're a noob, you'll learn some basics,
Tomorrow you'll wipe it off an eBay it.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Arsenal is just another gimmick product that's meant for people who don't want to learn the basics required to take a photograph. It's a joke.
--Bob

mvetrano2 wrote:

I saw an ad for Arsenal II on Facebook today and was wondering what it does? Would it somehow take over my R6's settings and make things better? Does anyone here use Arsenal, how, does it help, is it worh the purchase price? Just curious, looking for some clarification.

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Bought one when they first came out. Almost used it, then sold it on eBay a week later. If you know the basics about photography, this is superfluous.

BebuLamar

rmalarz wrote:

Arsenal is just another gimmick product that's meant for people who don't want to learn the basics required to take a photograph. It's a joke.
--Bob

It aimed as those people while I am impressed with the claimed capacity of the device to interface with the camera. If indeed it can remotely control that well the technology is much more useful if it is to be used to implement an automation algorithm developed by the photographer. Imagine you have a camera can do all the decision exactly the same as you would make yourself?

DanielJDLM

I bought the Arsenal Pro 2 and frankly, I would have been better just burning the money in my back yard and roasting marshmallows. The main reason I purchased it was for focus stacking...major disappointment. No firmware updates in months.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I have the ll, they still do not have all the bugs worked out. They don’t have the panoramic mode installed yet. Night photos are ok. Long exposures simulation is ok, I’m not pleased with the focus stacking. Not much help from the tech people on that. They basically said “just experiment “ . I have had mine for about 6 months now and played with it half a dozen times. I use it with my Sony a7iii

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

mvetrano2 wrote:

I saw an ad for Arsenal II on Facebook today and was wondering what it does? Would it somehow take over my R6's settings and make things better? Does anyone here use Arsenal, how, does it help, is it worh the purchase price? Just curious, looking for some clarification.

If you own a Canon R6 why would you need Arsenal? It is an expensive gimmick to satisfy an episode of GAS. At the end of the day, it will remain in the box on the shelf. Please don’t invest money for a hunk of junk.
Steve “Scruples” Gewirtz