When the spec list was released, I was very pleased (for the most part), as it addressed a lot of areas of improvement that the 6D series needed, including AF system (45 points), higher resolution (26MP vs 20MP), burst rate (6.5 vs 4.5FPS), DPAF, and more. Canon’s articulating screens are excellent, with a great deal of flexibility and usefulness in both landscape AND portrait modes, which simply isn’t true of screens that just tilt. I too had high expectations, particularly when it was rumored that the 6D2 would receive one of my favorite Canon features – their exceptional Vari-Angle Touch LCD screen.
The popularity of the 6D line was illustrated to me by the many, many viewers and readers of mine who sat out the initial release of the 5D Mark IV to see what the new 6D2 might offer. Fast forward to 2017 and Canon’s announcement of a second generation in the 6D series – the Canon EOS 6D Mark II (6D2).
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But all of these facts muddied the water for those looking to upgrade to a full frame model, and the 6D proved to be an exceptionally popular camera for Canon. Beyond this the focus system was a fairly limited 11 AF point setup, and many people used the 6D more as a center point only “focus and recompose” camera. It also added a few (for the time) cutting edge features that the 5D Mark III lacked, including GPS and WiFi connectivity along with a center point with greater sensitivity than any previous Canon body, allowing the 6D to have exceptional accuracy with that center point along with the ability to focus in lower light than competing bodies. In essentially every metric save resolution it outclassed the 5D Mark III, meaning that Canon’s best full frame image quality actually came from its “entry-level” model. But the 6D was a far more capable camera in practice than it was on paper, and most of that came from its exceptional sensor, which I remain convinced was Canon’s best of the last generation. The original Canon 6D was a bit of a unicorn: on paper it wasn’t very impressive, with a weak AF system and some obvious limitations imposed by Canon to create separation from the 5D series. One of my most popular articles that I’ve ever written was entitled, “ Why I chose a Canon 6D over a 5D Mark III”.
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