Photography News Issue 52

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Sensitivity options

Connectivity

As youwould expect fromamodern camera, the EOS 6DMark II has great connectivity with Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi. The camera uses Bluetooth to make aWi-Fi connection to your smart device so you can review and share images and you can control and shoot remotely too. Plus there’s GPS so you can tag your pictures with precise location details as you shoot.

The default ISO range is 100-40,000 and if you need to, this can be expanded to ISO 50 at one end and 51,200 and 102,400 at the other, so no problem coping with extremely bright conditions or when it is very dim. In movie shooting the range is ISO 100-25,600, also with the expansion options of 51,200 and 102,400.

A great view

The optical viewfinder shows 98% of the actual picture and you get a lovely big viewing image that only full-frame format cameras like the EOS 6D Mark II can provide. The viewfinder is also full of information so you can see what camera settings are in use and means you can make changes without taking your eye away from the viewfinder. Use the 3in LCD monitor and live view, and you see 100% of the actual picture with various options to help composition. There is a grid overlay and an electronic spirit level to help you keep shots level or upright. Live view also lets you magnify into the image (5x or 10x) at any point on the screen when manually focusing so you can get critical focus.

Drivematters

You can choose how quickly you want to shoot. Most of the time you will be using single shot (silent single-shot is available if you want to be discreet) but there will be times when you want to ramp up shooting speed and the EOS 6D Mark II lets you do that. So, for fast-paced action shooting, whether that is a racing car or a child running towards you, the EOS 6D Mark II offers a maximum shooting rate of six frames- per-second. In Raw quality mode, you can get 21 consecutive frames at this shooting speed while in JPEG mode 150 shots can be taken at this rate. Also available is a two- or ten-second self- timer and an built-in intervalometer so the camera can be set up to take a sequence of shots at preset time intervals. A time lapse mode is also available for movie shooting.

In the picture

There are any number of ways to enjoy the camera’s full-frame sensor. For stills, you can set JPEG shootingwhere files can be used straight out of the camera and can bewirelessly sent to your smart device for uploading to social media networks. There aremany size options to choose from, and there’s the choice of 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 and 1:1 picture formats. If you prefer, shoot Raw format for the ultimate control and for editing in software afterwards using Canon’s Digital Photo Professional 4 software that comes free with the camera. In Raw there is the option of full-size files or M-Rawand S-Raw if

Into sharp focus

At any angle

The Canon EOS 6D Mark II houses very accurate and super- sensitive autofocusing capable of class-leading performance even in very, very low lighting. It uses the same Canon Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology found in its top-end professional cameras where each individual AF sensor has two zones working side-by-side to give spot-on focusing in low light, poor-contrast situations. There are up to 45 cross-type AF points and these AF points can be used in various ways. You can either use a single point that you can manually select, have them in a nine (3x3) group or set Large Zone AF when all the zones are active. In live view 63 AF points are available.

The 3in 3:2 Clear View II TFT monitor has a resolution of

1040K dots and has touchscreen functionality for fast, convenient camera handling and mode setting. The monitor itself shows 100% of the image so what you see is what you get, and the vari-angle design means you can enjoy low- and high- angle shooting with ease.

smaller file sizes are needed. Or you can set the camera to record both Rawand JPEG files, so you have the option of ultimate quality and convenience.