I recently bought the R6/ RF24-240 plus a Canon adapter
I was seduced by the lowlight and focus tracking promise, plus I no longer use the 80d/EFS18-200 as a one lens combination for travel as it is quite heavy and, being a crop camera is not great in lowlight
So the sale of my 80d and EFS lenses in part funded this purchase and I have kept (for now?!) the 5d4 and L lenses for the Big Stuff.
I took the R6 for a weekend in Lincoln and Grimsby
Despite the general lay out being similar to other Canon lenses I wonder why the on-off button is the reverse of normal, and also when I want to review my shot I bring up the menu… frustrating but I’ll learn
I haven’t completely sussed out some new items on the menu, and customised all the buttons I need to
Good Points
I was seduced by the lowlight and focus tracking promise, plus I no longer use the 80d/EFS18-200 as a one lens combination for travel as it is quite heavy and, being a crop camera is not great in lowlight
So the sale of my 80d and EFS lenses in part funded this purchase and I have kept (for now?!) the 5d4 and L lenses for the Big Stuff.
I took the R6 for a weekend in Lincoln and Grimsby
Despite the general lay out being similar to other Canon lenses I wonder why the on-off button is the reverse of normal, and also when I want to review my shot I bring up the menu… frustrating but I’ll learn
I haven’t completely sussed out some new items on the menu, and customised all the buttons I need to
Good Points
- Lighter, nicely balanced, feels good in the hand and the right hand goes happily to grip.
- WYSIWYG in the VF. This makes it easy to dial in more SS/ISO/EC etc to get what you want….means more keepers with less fiddling in LR
- Low light- brilliant ,acceptable at ISO 8000 and even took one at 25600 which would pass muster
- Tracking- stunning. Put on the mount adapter with the 100-400L and effortlessly tracked red kites
- The 24-240 is sharper than the old EFS18-200 and I will be happy to take this away as a one lens combo
- I haven’t felt the battery life to be an issue, using the new battery LP-E6NH. Currently on power-saving mode but I will try it on smooth now- if only to get rid of the annoying flickering review screen when in PS mode
- The Elephant in the Room is the 20.1mp. Let’s be reasonable here. The 80d had 24mp and I never moaned, the 1DX has 20mp and you wildlife folk never moan. The 5d4 has over 30 and most of the time I end up with giant images of over 25mp.The sensor on the R6 is new and better at absorbing what it receives- so why the grumbling? All I want to do is see something great on my screen and occasionally print to A3 size at 300 ppi. And here’s the rub- if I take a shot and crop to say 50-60 % then I will not have the full 300ppi if I print at A3. Does this happen often? Does this alone justify spending £2000 more on the extra pixels for the R5 ( the extras and video stuff don’t interest me)?? I think I would have been happier if there had been more although I have just printed a mono face (“On the Street”) at A3 -181ppi -and the detail is excellent.
- Usually I work in Av or Tv mode but since the VF is so accurate I end up fiddling with the front, top and back wheels to play with ISO/EC. It’s like being in permanent Manual mode – great for purists but no good if your subject is animated rather than static. Hopefully I will learn to resist this ….
- The FV mode, much trumped, is not saving me time as I have not yet trained my fingers to do the right things.
- Agree with other posters that the cost of RF lenses is exorbitant. I shall use my L lenses plus adapter, thus negating the weight and balance I was hoping to achieve with the mirrorless camera. However, the RF lens I do have is a sweetie.
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