Today is the first official day of operation on the Waterford Flight of Locks but theres almost no traffic yet because Lock E7 is not yet open so all traversing the five lock flight gets you is a stretch of the Mohawk River between Waterford and Niskayuna. I knew there weren't boats sitting in Waterford Harbor waiting for the canal to open at 7:00 AM so I waited and headed farther up the flight of locks a bit later.

A very strange thing happened as I was waiting for a Canal Corporation work boat to be lowered in lock E6 and exit toward lock E5. I took one normal shot with the oldest of my two EOS RP bodies and then the camera settings got all changed somehow. I did nothing to change anything.

It changed from saving RAW files only to RAW plus JPG files. It changed to spot meter rather than evaluative metering. It changed to slow continuous shooting from fast. It changed into 1.6 crop mode. It changed the size of the AF spot and turned flicker correction off. Not all at the same time either as the 1.6 crop mode came after a series of RAW plus JPG captures at full resolution. 

I've had this body since November with no problems. I'm hoping this is just a weird anomaly. I did have some useless images due to the problems. 

[UPDATE: I figured out what happened when it happened again. Unless the power switch is turned off, the camera can wake up when my body gets near the sensor next to the viewfinder. Then, if the camera bounces against my hip it can enable the quick settings menu and further bumps can change the settings. Lesson? Turn the camera off. I tend to do this anyway as image stabilization is always running with these cameras and I don't want to waste battery.]

Here are some single file results (no exposure bracketing) with two EOS RP bodies, one with an EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM lens and the other with an EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM lens.