Review on Canon EOS 6D Wi-Fi Enabled Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) with 20.2 MP CMOS Sensor and 3.0-Inch LCD by Ojasvi Uppal ᠌

Name: Canon EOS 6D Wi-Fi Enabled Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) with 20.2 MP CMOS Sensor and 3.0-Inch LCD
Item: Canon EOS 6D Wi-Fi Enabled Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) with 20.2 MP CMOS Sensor and 3.0-Inch LCD
Rating: 5

September 13, 2022

Very high quality product, it's not the first time I bought it.

I have been using the Canon EOS 5D and 5D II for a long time and have assembled a good set of lenses. But the time has come to ate the camera, and for October-December 2022, I considered different cameras, taking into account their prices, and this is what I got:
- Canon 6D II. On the plus side, good ergonomics and excellent battery life with JVI, but DPAF without eye detection and only through LiveView, which significantly increases the shake. Video without 4K.
- Canon R/RP. Plus, a more modern DPAF with eye detection and through EVI, which simplifies dynamic shooting and reduces movement, and also simplifies shooting during the day. There is 4K, albeit with a crop. In minus autonomy and ergonomics.
- Sony a7 III. In plus, very good 4K and better DD, stabilizer on the matrix, minus very expensive and not a complete park of optics without analogues of my lenses, poor ergonomics, no full-rotation screen.
Conclusion: switching to Sony is not justified for me (primarily because of the optics), the choice between 6D II and R / RP was more difficult. Here you need to look at your preferences:
- you need good autonomy, classic ergonomics, work with gloves and enough to take pictures of people through LiveView - then take 6D II
- if you want to photograph people conveniently and a lot, including on the move through EVI with full DPAF operation - take R or RP, it's really cool implemented there.

I'm happy with the Canon EOS 6D II, it's a great camera for its level. A good choice with a reasonable approach, I recommend!

Pros

1. Good matrix: nice colors, ISO 6400 working, on par with Sony a7 III. I set AutoISO to 100-6400. The camera does not lose here. As far as dynamic range is concerned, I didn't run into issues with frame processing, although I didn't feel limited in that regard on the Canon 5D and 5D II either. 2. Excellent autonomy of work, the battery lasts for a long time. This is especially important in long winter photo walks or when using lenses with a stabilizer that eats a lot of energy. 3. Pleasant optical viewfinder with indication of many parameters (they can be selected) and with an electronic level. Its accuracy is within +/-1 degree or less, which is far better than my personal sense of the horizon. Helps a lot. You can overlay frames with other frame proportions, up to a square. 4. Indication of flickering lighting and the ability to overcome this problem - useful when shooting indoors. 5. LiveView with DualPixelAF, 80% vertical and 80% horizontal AF coverage and face detection. Electronic level. Complete freedom in the location of people almost throughout the frame when using fast optics - AF is very fast and accurate. 6. Full-rotation screen and full duplication of control via TouchScreen. Shooting from difficult positions has become convenient. In the stowed position, the screen can be deployed - less damage. 7. The DSLR camera is very light and compact, only marginally larger and heavier than the Canon EOS R/RP. A kit with a 50 / 1.8 lens will be even more compact. But the 6D II has full ergonomics with a control wheel on the back. I quickly got used to the moved 8-position joystick inside the wheel. 8. Button for switching the selection of phase-detection AF points next to the shutter release button. 9. Phase-detection AF with 45 cross points, good tracking AF. 10. Camera JPEG and white balance are nice. Frames can be given immediately. 11. Wireless connections for file transfer and remote control. 12. Up to 6.5 fps 13. The mirror is nicely damped.

Cons

1. SDXC memory card with UHS-I. Data transfer rates up to 100 MB / s, which at best means recording no more than 3 frames per second when shooting RAW + JPEG. The buffer is not emptied so quickly. 2. Memory buffer for 16-17 frames RAW+JPEG or 17-18 frames RAW. When shooting at 6.5 fps and slow recording to a memory card, it can quickly clog up. Not very interesting for events, sports, etc. 3. Camera JPEG and proprietary Canon Digital Photo Professional have a not very strong debayerization algorithm. When compared with Capture 1 Pro, there is a very big difference, in Capture 1 Pro, as if the AA filter was removed, you can get moiré. For camera JPEG, this situation is excusable, but DPP disappointed. 4. Video only FullHD. Yes, from full frame and with DPAF focusing. But in 2022, when many people have 4K TVs and projectors, it looks strange. I rarely write videos, but in a good natural location, from a tripod - 4K would have gone nicer. 4K time-lapses from the camera are nonsense, if this is what you do, then you need to shoot time-lapse photography in RAW, batch process and stitch it into video. The result is better and much more manageable. 5. DPAF does not occupy 100% of the frame and cannot detect human eyes. There are not so many DPAF points. Behind all this - on the Canon EOS R / RP. 6. Face detection DPAF does not display the electronic horizon. There is a lot of talk about mirror phase AF points close to the center. There are 2 nuances here: - the main competitor in the form of Nikon D750 is not better, it also has linear outer points, not cross ones. Better coverage with cameras like the Canon 5D IV or Nikon D850, but at a different price; - in any case, the peripheral points have the usual sensitivity and are not very accurate for lenses f / 2.8 and lighter. The same Canon 5D IV has 5 sensitive double crosses, but they are located on a vertical line in the center of the frame and do not help to aim a fast portrait lens when the object is in the thirds of the frame. This is a limitation of mirror-phase phase AF technology and only DPAF array AF will help with this.