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How To Use The Camera Connect app With The Canon T6i DSLR
This webpage shows how to use the free "Camera Connect" app with the T6i DSLR camera and a smartphone or Ipad. The app lets you remote control the camera (and similar Canon DSLRs) for remote viewing, focusing, and taking snapshots. You can also transfer photos from the T6i to your phone or ipad. The T6i connects to the smartphone or Ipad with Wifi. This app works with other Canon DSLRs that have WiFi. To remotely shoot videos, use the "EOS Utility" app on a Windows 10 computer.
Here's how remote shooting with the Camera Connect app will help you take snapshots or set up a video scene:
⦁ Use the app to set up the scene with the camera on a tripod. Adjust lights to eliminate reflection from your glasses, to check your appearance, and to check your position within the scene. You won't have to run to get into a group picture, as you did when using the camera's shutter delay timer. Forvideos, then set the camera to video mode (this disconnects the app) and use the camera control to take the video.
⦁ Preview a video scene where you will walk around while recording. (i.e. video showing you working on a home improvement project.) You can check the focus and ensure you won't be "cut off" in the scene. Start the video with the camera controls.
⦁ To take perfectly timed snapshots of a bird feeder, animal burrow or your children playing.
Here are the steps to use the "Camera Connect" app:
⦁ Download and install the (free) app on your Ipad or smartphone from the App Store.
⦁ Set P mode on the camera, turn on the camera to snapshot mode.
⦁ Open the camera's LCD screen, press "menu", select the 7th item on the menu display, Enable Wi-Fi/NFC, click OK, select "Wi-Fi Function", click 2nd icon (smartphone or tablet), click "connect", Click OK
⦁ On Ipad, open "settings", WiFi, connect to "Cannon.Canon0A".
⦁ Start "Cannon Connect" app
⦁ click remote live view shooting
⦁ Tap on the view to move the focus grid, set exposure and focus.
Double tap to magnify/restore the selected focus area.
Press the large white button to take snapshots.
Click the AF button to focus.
Transfer Your Photos
If you select "remote live view shooting" on the first camera connect screen, the camera live view appears. Each time you take a photo , a thumbnail of that photo appears at upper right.
If you continue taking photos, the camera stays in live view, and the thumbnail of the latest photo appears at upper right. HOWEVER, if you click the thumbnail, it enlarges that photo and changes from live view to "check source images" mode. If you NOW continue to take photos, each photo is shown full screen, and you are NOT in live view mode. Also, you can click one of the thumbnails at the bottom to show that photo full screen. To return to live view mode, just press the thumbnail at upper right, or click the "x" above the photo.
If you click the left arrow at upper right, you return to the first camera connect screen, and can select "images on camera". There you can view thumbnails for all pics in the camera, and can selectively delete photos, change some of their metadata, and transfer them to your ipad or phone. You can then email them, etc with the camera's photo app. This does work, but I've had some problems with the procedure. I always just move the camera's mem card to my computer, and transfer the photos for use there.
Once you change from the "live display" to "images on camera", then return to "live display", you can't access your previous photos from that window. (But you can return to the "images on camera" to see them.)
The app will not control the camera in movie mode. Use the app to compose the scene, and to take snapshots. Switch the camera to movie mode to disconnect the app, then use the camera controls to take videos.
If you continue taking photos, the camera stays in live view, and the thumbnail of the latest photo appears at upper right. HOWEVER, if you click the thumbnail, it enlarges that photo and changes from live view to "check source images" mode. If you NOW continue to take photos, each photo is shown full screen, and you are NOT in live view mode. Also, you can click one of the thumbnails at the bottom to show that photo full screen. To return to live view mode, just press the thumbnail at upper right, or click the "x" above the photo.
If you click the left arrow at upper right, you return to the first camera connect screen, and can select "images on camera". There you can view thumbnails for all pics in the camera, and can selectively delete photos, change some of their metadata, and transfer them to your ipad or phone. You can then email them, etc with the camera's photo app. This does work, but I've had some problems with the procedure. I always just move the camera's mem card to my computer, and transfer the photos for use there.
Once you change from the "live display" to "images on camera", then return to "live display", you can't access your previous photos from that window. (But you can return to the "images on camera" to see them.)
The app will not control the camera in movie mode. Use the app to compose the scene, and to take snapshots. Switch the camera to movie mode to disconnect the app, then use the camera controls to take videos.