... on a camera that doesn't support the cable connection of the GPS tracker?
I know the most probable answer, but I don't want to miss out any solution I could not think of if there is one.
Yeah I know I could do the GPS the BT way, but that was pretty crappy last year I tried it.
Btw, out of all the cameras I can now test (200D, 6D, R50, R10, R6/2) the only one supporting the cable connection of the GP-E2 is 6D, which has the GPS built in. The irony!
On camera flash, or off camera? I don't think there is an on-camera solution. Off camera, it might be possible if you find a radio system that uses an on-camera sender unit that has a pass-through Canon-dedicated hot shoe, onto which the GP-E2 would sit and communicate with the camera.
Why doesn't the GP-E2 work via cable with the R6II? Is it the cable connection type? If it's an old USB connection type, is it possible to use a USB-C adapter? But maybe it's also not supported in the camera's firmware.
I guess it's a PITA to use the GP-E2 in log mode and sync the GPS coordinates with the photos post-capture?
There is a specially labelled mini-usb connector on the side of 6D (and also 7D which is a case mentioned in the GP-E2 manual), "A/V OUT DIGITAL", with which the gps tracker works via cable. With all others USB connectors on Canons with just the USB logo the gps tracker does not work.
Ok I must admit I now realized I haven't really tried R6/2, because I don't have micro-USB to USB-C convertor. But since there are more contacts on the original cable, I guess that data stream would be lost anyway.
The flash would be on camera. I thought of something like this:
but I am not sure that the flash and the tracker sharing the same set of contacts would not collide.
rscheffler wrote:
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I guess it's a PITA to use the GP-E2 in log mode and sync the GPS coordinates with the photos post-capture?
Yeah I would not want to do that. The tracker would have to be recording in shortest intervals, and still the camera and GPS time could be shifted by seconds...
Too bad we somehow cannot make use of the GP-E1 that's for 1D.
Not to mention the stress on the camera's hot shoe caused by the uneven weight distribution of a presumably large speedlite on one side and the small GP-E2 on the other side.
