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DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’ll end up with better quality images this way compared to transferring them to Canon servers where they’ll likely be compressed or altered.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not to mention likely cataloged by geotag and used for “targeted marketing” by Canon and “select partners”.

    That shit is just creepy.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably used to train an AI model as well

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is actually the real reason behind the change

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    • DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it prob does this already on the camera wish someone figured out how to make open source camera os

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      • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I remember having a PowerShot SX110IS back in 2010 and there was an open source firmware I loaded on it. I forget what it was called. It’s a damn shame that we can’t really do stuff like that anymore.

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re not being transmitted to canon before downloading. The camera starts a (slow) local WiFi network that the phone can connect to and it directly transfers that way. This means you still get full quality RAW files

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