The Man In The Shop

Another day another camera to test. This is the Canon R6 II with a 50 mm RF f1.8 lens. The first shot is at 1/80th second f4 and ISO 100. The camera has image stabilisation in the body, which helps.

Then we moved into the shade and I pushed the ISO to 800 and I shot at 1/250th second at f4.

I can’t help but notice the change in the colour of his face depending on whether he was catching the light or not.

Either way, my feeling is that it’s a lovely camera. It has a big viewfinder with a clear readout of shutter speed etc in white letters against a black background at the bottom of the frame. That’s very important because if the information is a less conspicuous it is easy to leave some setting or other not where you want it to be.

I also like the grip, which is big enough and deep.

What I am less enamoured of is the menu system. Coming from Nikon where everything is clear line by line, the Canon menu seems to be all over the place. But that may be just initial confusion because I don’t hear Canon shooters complain about the menus.

What else – nothing for the moment except that because of the price I am actually looking at the R6 and not the R6 II. And having watched a few videos by reviewers I am even more inclined to the R6.