Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900?
Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
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#12Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900?
He likely bought an old model second-hand :)
Edit: The camera he uses is a 2019 pocket camera. The 6299 must be another model that has the same restrictions.
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#13Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900?
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#14Canon truly is the HP of cameras. Good thing there's Sony and Nikon.
The latest firmware update for the Sony A7S III has introduced unlockable licenses and a website where you can buy them. The first one (for DCI 4K) is free, but it looks like they'll be chraging for unlocking more "professional" firmware features in the future.
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#15Right there with the infamous $18 BMW heated seats subscription
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#16Not all companies. The DJI Action camera has a built-in webcam mode that you can select whenever you plug it in via USB, and it just works.
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#17I'm not sure since I don't have any Canon gear, but it's very likely that the app just uses the PTP protocol, which is an old but stil common standard. The main ioen source implementation is libgphoto2 and there's an OBS Studio plugin to use it as a camera source, after which you can use its built-in virtual webcam mode to use it as a webcam.
Canon G5 X mark 2 does not seem to be supported by gphoto:
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#18Enshitification, incarnate.
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#19Canon truly is the HP of cameras. Good thing there's Sony and Nikon.
The latest firmware update for the Sony A7S III has introduced unlockable licenses and a website where you can buy them. The first one (for DCI 4K) is free, but it looks like they'll be chraging for unlocking more "professional" firmware features in the future.
I'm not sure this is the case, but to play devils advocate - Sony themselves might have to license it from a third party
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#20I also discovered that I couldn't use my Canon SLR to record more than 30 minutes of video continuously.
The problem however wasn't Canon, but that I lived in a region (EU) that would have imposed a customs tariff on cameras that could do that, but by keeping it under that, the camera would be classed as a 'stills' camera and so was therefore exempt.
Admittedly this is different from the case in the article - but it would appear that owning something that could physically do what you want it to is only half the battle for numerous reasons, and in this case it would have been my government demanding extra money to 'unlock' this functionality.