EOS Utility and Mode Dial

[Davoud]

5D III, 6D. Can the function of the Mode Dial (P, Tv, Av, M, B, &c.) be changed from within EOS Utility version 3.4? It seems to me that I used to do this with earlier versions of EU, but it has been a couple of years since I used DPP or EU. The mode selected on the camera is shown, but it is grayed out in the software, not selectable as other camera settings are.

Thanks!

Davud Illig

[Davoud]

You nearly paid the price for your own lack of vision and foresight.  It was a close one.

That's a bit melodramatic! If you think that exposure time in astrophotogrpahy is set purely on the basis of vision and foresight, you haven't done much astrophotography. The price wasn't a patient dead after a failed neurosurgery; it was a 30-second camera exposure that was not as good as it might have been. With the cost of film and developing these days, that's not a very steep price. And I didn't blame the camera. Please don't begin ad hominem attacks over a minor feature that I would like to see in Canon camera software.

[Waddizzle]

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@Davoud wrote:

Please don't begin ad hominem attacks over a minor feature that I would like to see in Canon camera software.

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Excuse me, but I am not the one who started this ad hoinem thread of wishful thinking.  I am not the one who waxed melancholy about the inconvenience of having to climb a step ladder, either.  Good luck, with your future trials and tribulations. 

[Waddizzle]

"Purely hypothetical, as it seems you are correct and the Mode Dial cannot be controled remotely" 

Albert Einstein referred to such hypothetical ponderings as "thought experiments."

[kvbarkley]

I think you are out of luck, the manual says this:

"The settings that cannot be set in the capture window can be set by operating the camera"

[Davoud]

I'm quite certain that you are correct and I was mistaken in thinking that this function could be chnged remotely. I note that CamRanger also cannot control the Mode Dial.

I think it's unfortunate that a remote-control device can't control certain important functions remotely, but that's life.

Thanks to all who replied.

David Illig