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Introduction:
We shoot Canon, straight and simple. So we have a good collection of Canon's EF lenses. When a new camera comes out, like the 5 D Mark III, Canon wants to bump up the price by $500 to $1000. That simply is lost profits to us. Money that you will never see again. For us, it is about Image Quality and and some features. So lets take a quick look at Canon's EOS 6 D. Possibly your next Full Frame camera.
Based on price, some people call it a budget FF camera with 20.4 MP's, if you can say that $3,000 with the 24-105 mm lens is budget. I choose to call it Affordable.
Features That We Desire:
1. That it's a Canon and we can use our Canon EF lenses and TTL flashes.
2.That it is Full Frame and does not have extremely high MP's, which would increase the high ISO noise levels. Give me a low noise picture any day for best image quality.
3. It has an upgraded focusing system. I don't need 63 focusing point to focus on the bride's eyes. 11 will work fine
4.It shoots excellent video
5.0 Smaller size means less weight around my neck for 10 hours. Add the flash, radio transmitters, bounce cards, black thingy and it get heavy.
6.Image quality is excellent
7 Continuous rate of 4.5 images per second. I am shooting weddings not race cars.
8. Built in WiFi- I hope will allow transmission to your laptop for portrait sessions. GPS used for?
9. Good 3in viewing screen. No swivel screen- boo
10.HDR has some good possibilities with 3 images-Tech Improvement
11. Multiple Exposure Mode -Can make 9 images into one. Special effects here
12. 20.4 MP's mean limit of file size with excellent resolution +On board Noise Reduction Chip- Tech Improvement
13. Digimatic 5+ Processor (two would be better)-Tech Improvement
14 ISO Range 100-25600 plus expanded range. That means 6400-12800 ISO should work just fine for those few times that you may need it. Fill flash is normally needed anyway.
14. Excellent low light performance - to exceed the Mark III by perhaps 1 stop. Raw processing software can add even 2 more stops
15. Micro lens adjustment of correcting back focus lenses. This is very important and it was I believe left out of the 60D? I will not buy a DSLR that doesn't have this feature.
16. Live view.
17. Flash syc speed 1/180 sec Hey guys you are going the wrong way. Give us 1/500
18. 1/30 to 1/4000 Shutter speed. We want to shoot no slower than 1/30 as people move
19. Wireless connectivity built in.
20. No built in radio flash control that I know of. Will have to use ST-E2 or 580 EX II
21. No built in camera flash - Long lenses usually block it anyway.
22. Lighter- Who wants to carry a heavy camera
Conclusion:
For wedding photography it seems to have everything that we need. You might say a lighter and improved Canon Mark II . It hits the key features of the Mark III excepting the 63 point focusing system which we would not be using. With lower noise levels, image quality will be excellent. I would like to put our order in today at Vistek. There is a life cycle to this type of equipment. Who knows what we will have in 5 years time? New bubble sensors with 3d and high MP with little noise? So why pay $1000's extra for very little. (I don't use Nikon because they simply are too expensive with little or no gain but an excellent camera anyway. We once went to a Camera Vendor Show and Nikon wouldn't even show us the D3 and we said that we were professional photographers. They didn't even have the correct info on Canon's models). Marketing drives camera manufacturers. The high ISO push is a bit crazy when your best picture quality comes at 100 ISO. See my ISO post coming soon.
Canon progressed in the last few years from the 40D and 50D (no video) which are good cameras to the 60D-no micro-adjustment. Both the 7D and 5 D Mark II are getting OLD using the Digimatic 4 processors with no on board noise reduction chip. I think that we have seen the last of the "C" sized image sensors. It is NOT evolution but rather intelligent design (I trained as a Professional Engineer -Engineers design). So Canon moves to the replacement of both of these models with the EOS 6D. The semi-pro model wedding cameras will be the 6D and the EOS 5D Mark III ( too heavy and too pricey but nice-Specs are improved). (The Nikon D800 and D600 are also excellent cameras with better Specs). Look for a new flag ship model to play the Mega Pixel game with Nikon. The 7D may hang around albeit at a lower price of $13-1400. A lot of wedding photographers who now have the 5D Mark II just might give the 6D a good look. Improvements needed:Weather proofing.
That is what I think How about you?
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ReplyDeleteI was thinking of upgrading my mark II for the 6D. I'm also a wedding photograher (Montreal). The only downside is the max shutter speed of 1/4000. Sometimes I like to shoot wide open on my 35L 1.4 on a sunny day. I've had my shutter speed go up to 1/8000 in those cases.
ReplyDeleteIt does look like a winner.
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