I figured out a fun thing today with the newer workhorse camera. I'm taking a year long photography course and I need to be able to tether my 6D to the wife's laptop. I went around a bit on how to do this and finally figured out that if I:
Click on the wifi icon
Click "Create Network"
Name it something.
Hit "Create"
Then, the Macbook will create a little Ad-Hoc network that I can then connect to with my camera. Well, damn. That was pretty slick and will allow me to tether without having a wifi router somewhere nearby.
I'm using the clunky, but correctly priced, EOS Utility 3 software from Canon that comes with the camera. It'll download a little bit funky on the Macbook, so you have to:
Go into the Applications folder
Click on the Canon Utilities folder
Click on the EOS Utilities folder
Click on the EOS Utilities App (for pairing)
Click on the EOS3 App
It'll then start pairing if you're doing it the first time. After that, just select the network and you should be rolling. Configure where you want the photos to be stored and whether or not you want to save them to the computer and the camera and the rest kinda sorts itself out. One obvious thing I noticed is that the preview speed is slow, but can be speeded up a bit by lowering the capture file size. I usually shoot MRaw, but switched to MJpeg and it worked pretty well.
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