Submitted 3 days ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Chrome is one of the first things I disable on my Android devices, and I hate the idea of signing up for any accounts just to access local files.
But Canon welcomed me with a big surprise, and a fuck you, too!
Well, shit. I was planning on getting a Canon for my first camera because it’s hard to beat them for astrophotography, but I’m less sure now.
If you are fine just using the camera as-is (i.e. no app features), then they still make great cameras. I don’t appreciate the enshittification of their hardware via this software trap, though.
There’s not really anything you need the app for. It can remote control the camera with a live feed, which is cool but not all that useful, at least for me. It can also transfer images and videos, but I’m not sure it does the videos at full resolution, at least in my camera. For all practical purposes it’s just a little less useful than carrying a USB C SD card reader around with your camera that you can plug into your phone (because it also takes a good minute to connect usually, but my only datapoint is a camera from 2014 so they might have improved it since then)
You can configure the app to transfer your images and videos in full original quality but the transfer of large files takes forever, even in the best of conditions. I did the math and the app transfers data at something like 480 kbps over Wi-Fi which is beyond awful in this century. I don’t know if this is a limitation of the camera hardware itself (I’d doubt it) or the app. But needless to say, transferring large batches of images is an excruciating experience that I’ve certainly resolved never to do again. It’s just barely functional if you want to get a picture off to share or chimp at on your phone’s larger screen, but in my opinion can serve no other purpose since it’s so damn slow.
The entire song-and-dance of getting connected to the camera and arriving at a list of thumbnails also takes a combined total of about three minutes, which is absurd.
I have been very happy with my Panasonic Lumix S5 and previously GX80, though I am planning on getting a Sony A7 IV as I want better AF, I’ll keep my S5 and the lenses though as I love the colors from it
I’d just return and leave a bad review lol
Enshittification at its finest
Oof, that is new, the camera connect app used to work without an account before.
Yes, they announced it last month, so the forced implementation happened very quickly. Asshole move by Canon.
Can’t you downgrade to the old version?
Fuck forced accounts.
Looks like someone needs to wore an app that doesn’t have these requirements.
Another use said the older version of the app works without an account… but you need an internet connect, so that could “turn off” at any moment. This level of enshittification should be illegal.
That was me. FYI, the prior version of the app works without an internet connection. I just tried it and had no problem.
It’s only the current version that needs internet and for that only so it can force you to sign in.
You will assuredly want to disable automatic updates on the app, however, to keep it from updating again behind your back. And it’s still a buggy piece of shit in either incarnation.
FYI if you’re shooting tethered the live view functionality and performance of Capture One is infinitely better.
Was gonna make an Oh Brother Where Art Thou joke. Picture my mild fury when I noticed this is about cameras, not printers.
I thought they stopped making Cameras?
Anyways, learn to use a SD Card maybe. I would never install anything of theirs on any device, personally.
Anyways, learn to use a SD Card maybe.
Completely irrelevant to the reason why I use the app, though.
I geotag photos, and that can only be done through the app.
I use live view, and that can only be done through the app.
Firmware updates. App.
You can do firmware updates with the SD Card, that’s the way it’s been done for decades.
I’m not going to pretend what geotagging and canon live view™ is but it sounds a lot like image metadata?
They’ve really gone downhill since the AE-1.
Not that it’s worth the effort of jumping through hoops for a fucking file transfer of all things, but I wonder you can do it by spoofing your user agent?
It’s not that it needs a different browser agent, but it looks for the Chrome app, and forces you to have it installed (or enabled, if you’ve disabled it like I do).
Not to defend Canon but can you not just use USB or transfer via SD Card? Just asking because I just got an EOS RP.
The app was used for live view and also geotagging, in addition to file transfer. So this requirement affects several features.
For what it’s worth, you can generally record a GPS tracking in another app or on another device and then use your photo editing software to add the coordinates to the photos after the fact.
Alright well I need Geotagging so guess I’ll have to sign up. I completely forgot how shitty Canon were because I got massive tunnel vision while searching for a camera to buy…
BS. Same new „features” on iOS. Just uninstalled the app. If I wasn’t so heavily invested in Canon glass, I’d be looking at switching.
Canon has dropped the ball so hard imo. Most of my other video friends and contacts who use dslrs switched to Sony.
Not sure they’re much better, they charge to install an intervalometer app. Its extremely basic functionality that should be there as standard.
I also use Sony (and Panasonic) cameras, and both their apps just work without an account. That could change at any time, unfortunately.
One thing that could work is to use an older version of the app without updating it. I do this with GoPro Quik, since the “new” Quik app is basically one big advertisement to get you to pay for a subscription to edit your videos.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony required an account. But who knows, maybe the camera division is under better management
About the only thing keeping me off Sony is that they’ve got a really bad star eater problem in their DSLRs, and even still somewhat in their mirror less.
Can you not just transfer via usb drive connection?
The app was used for live view and also geotagging, in addition to file transfer. So this requirement affects several features.
For a moment there I thought they’d locked down the SD card or something. Don’t people transfer to their computers anymore?
For file transfer, I prefer WIFI direct connect, unless it’s large video files.
But this app is used for more than file transfer, so you can’t even geotag photos (for example) unless you have an account. Crazy shit, since this would strictly be between your phone and camera.
It’s not like the geotagging was all that great anyway. The phone app sucked battery like an alcoholic with a fresh bottle.
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Much like every telehealth experience I’ve had in the past 3 years.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 days ago
also one of the things behind the decline private doctor care in general too.