Here are some sample photos of the EOS R6 with a 400mm f/2.8 v3 + adapter, the RF 70-200mm and the RF 100-500mm. They were all shot using Servo AF, Case A, with People/Eye Detect enabled.
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Australian Open with no fans
Here’s what it was like covering the Australian Open during a snap 5-day lockdown with no fans in the stands. A moment in time, recorded. Let’s hope it never happens again.
February 13, 2021: A match being played with no public crowds on Rod Laver Arena at the 2021 Australian Open as the state goes into lockdown due to an outbreak of the Covid-19 Corona virus from a hotel quarantine worker. After 5 days of tennis being played in stadiums with crowds the tournament is permitted to continue by the government without spectators. The match between 25th seed Karolina MUCHOVA of the Czech Republic and 6th seed Karolina PLISKOVA of the Czech Republic in a 3rd round match on day 6 of the Australian Open is the first match since the lockdown began at midnight today in Melbourne, Australia.
Canon EOS R6 Rolling Shutter Example
Canon has made huge strides in their mirrorless line of cameras. Sony’s A9 Mk II is generally agreed to be the current benchmark, especially it’s ability to shoot at 20 fps with it’s electronic shutter without any noticeable rolling shutter. So is Canon’s current EOS R6 rolling shutter acceptable? Here’s a photo from The Australian Open showing distortion of the tennis ball and racquet.
FTP servers compatible with Canon EOS R3 R5 and R6
Updated 17 March 2024. The Canon EOS R3, R5 and R6, along with the 1DX, and the newer 5D cameras have a FTP client built in. This allows images to be sent via Wifi or Ethernet to a FTP server. One of the use cases is to send images to a computer. This works very well and if you’re using a Mac as they come with an FTP server which just needs be activated. However, since macOS version 10.13 (High Sierra) of the Mac’s operating system, Apple removed the FTP server from the operating system and a 3rd party application is required.
I had been using the QuickFTP app for several years and it has worked fine with Nikon and Sony cameras. But it seems that Canon’s EOS R3 R5 R6 doesn’t want to send images to it. The camera reports a successful connection but when an attempt is made to send an image, the camera just doesn’t. So, I found another two other apps, FileZilla Server and Ftp-Serv which does work with these Canon cameras. So if you’re using QuickFTP server and pulling your hair out, you can stop it now!
However, there’s still a couple of gotchas to get this to work. 1. You need to disable Passive mode in the camera’s FTP settings if you’re using FTP-Serv. FileZilla is fine with Passive mode; and 2. You need to use a non-standard port as macOS doesn’t like you to use the standard FTP port 21. I use 26000.
Apple’s iCloud Drive Slows Down a Device’s Download Speed by 10Mbps
Was tuning my home Wifi and noticed that some of my Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, MacBook Pro, iMac Pro) were not getting the same download speeds when testing via Speedtest. On a Mac with two user accounts, one account would consistently get about 10Mbps faster speed than another account. Initially thinking that there might be a user-level app that was running on log in, a launchdaemon or launchagent process, or a browser extension that was causing the slowdown in the affected account led to a process of turning everything off. But still, the slowdown didn’t go away.
As this was affecting not only Macs, but iPads and iPhones, I started looking deeper into what was similar with the accounts and devices that had the slow speed. It turned out to be Apple’s iCloud Drive feature. All the slow devices were logged into iCloud, and specifically, had the iCloud Drive feature turned on. When that is turned on, the download speed is slowed by about 10Mbps. It’s like it reserves this for it’s own use and is not available for other applications. And it’s not just in http web traffic, it’s at the device level as testing via Speedtest in a web browser or using the CLI test via Terminal yields the same reduction in speed.
You can do this simple test yourself. Just run Speedtest on any of the devices with iCloud Drive on, and then off. If you have a 100Mbps connection I suppose it doesn’t matter much, but losing 10Mbps isn’t what I signed up for in using iCloud Drive. Needless to say I’ve disabled iCloud Drive across all of them and reclaimed by DL speed, and will use one of the other cloud storage services like Dropbox or OneDrive that doesn’t silently take away my download speed.
Affected devices: Macs running 10.15.7 and 11.0.1; iOS and iPadOS 14.2