I’ve been a Canon user since the 90s but I’m on the verge of switching everything over to Sony, which is just stomping a mudhole in Canon’s backyard right now. I don’t know what to think about Canon anymore. If you’re going to ask $2000 for a DSLR in 2017 and beyond, you need to do much better than the images that the 6D Mark II gives us. But the one thing that matters more than anything else, the one thing that makes all the other wonderful icing on the cake a superfluous batch of crap, is the image quality.
I love the autofocus system, the touchscreen and Dual Pixel AF. Why don’t we pump the brakes for a second and see if we can deliver a better product since we have the tech sitting right here on the workbench?”Įverything else about the 6D Mark II is fantastic.
REFURBISHED CANON 6D MARK 2 FULL
Our mid-range 80D has better dynamic range and holds onto highlights better than what we’re about to put in this $2000 full frame camera. How did someone in the engineering department not raise their hand and be like, “Listen guys, this sensor isn’t up to snuff.
How Canon has the nerve to release a DSLR like the 6D Mark II in 2017 is beyond me. I may do some side-by-side comparisons (if I can stomach using this camera any longer) but why do I really need to compare two camera models nearly a decade apart? DxOMark says the 6D Mark II and 5D Mark II have the same dynamic range of 11.9EV however, I’d swear the 5D Mark II holds onto highlights better. When I loaded the first 6D Mark II RAW file into Lightroom, I immediately cringed at the highlights and thought it looked more like a 60D file than a full frame camera file. I’ve logged hundreds of thousands of shots on the 5D Mark II and 60D. I’ve shot just about every Canon DSLR in the past decade. While the color in the 6D Mark II is nice – as is the case with virtually all Canon DSLRs – the photos look like they came out of a Canon 60D. The real world use reflects that terrible dynamic range score the 6D Mark II received from DxOMark tests. There’s just no holding onto the highlights. After using the 6D Mark II for a few weeks, I’m disappointed to say that the images produced by the Canon 6D Mark II are as bad as the number and charts suggest. Then, early reports concerned me about the image quality however, I was also a little hopeful that the numbers and charts wouldn’t necessarily reflect real world experience. I was so pumped when the Canon 6D Mark II rumors were pouring out and when it was announced.