OFFICIAL: CANON EOS 6D - User Thread - Part 2

[Castlesinthesky]

A testament to the 6D and its sublime performance in Europe. Simply outstanding with how it dealt with low light conditions.

Credits have to be given to her as it was freezing in Paris when we took this shot:bsmilie:

 

[Castlesinthesky]

One more from the 6D. One of the many views from the top of the Eiffel Tower. One altitude is nothing compared to this view.:bsmilie:

Shot hand held on 1 single exposure.

And might i add the GPS locked on flawlessly and accurately in both indoors and outdoors. Over 85% of my photos are geo tagged correctly and beautifully.

 

[ageha]

And might i add the GPS locked on flawlessly and accurately in both indoors and outdoors. Over 85% of my photos are geo tagged correctly and beautifully.

Indoors?

 

[Castlesinthesky]

Indoors?

Yes indoors, the louvre and Saint Chapelle for instance. I put 15 percent as a very generous estimate as there were some areas where obviously the GPS signal couldn't lock on.Crypts for instance.

 

[SoundOfSilence]

Yes indoors, the louvre and Saint Chapelle for instance. I put 15 percent as a very generous estimate as there were some areas where obviously the GPS signal couldn't lock on.Crypts for instance.

Great shots!

mind sharing the settings for the Eiffel tower shot?

 

[Castlesinthesky]

Great shots!

mind sharing the settings for the Eiffel tower shot?

No problem, ISO was at 1600, 1/20 F2.8.

Unrelated to the 6D, but as a testament to the ISO capabilities of current gen Canon cameras here's another pano done of the foucault pendulum at the Pantheon with the 1DX. Handheld with the tilt shift 17 TSE. Shutter speeds were less than 1/13 as it was super duper dark inside even with ISO speeds boosted.

 

[Halfmoon]

No problem, ISO was at 1600, 1/20 F2.8.

Unrelated to the 6D, but as a testament to the ISO capabilities of current gen Canon cameras here's another pano done of the foucault pendulum at the Pantheon with the 1DX. Handheld with the tilt shift 17 TSE. Shutter speeds were less than 1/13 as it was super duper dark inside even with ISO speeds boosted.

You really poisoned me with 6D............... lol... nice picture!!!

 

[Castlesinthesky]

You really poisoned me with 6D............... lol... nice picture!!!

It's the camera, not the photographer in this case. lol, go get the camera!

 

[Halfmoon]

It's the camera, not the photographer in this case. lol, go get the camera!

Too bad it is not free................................................................... :embrass:

 

[road les traveled]

A testament to the 6D and its sublime performance in Europe. Simply outstanding with how it dealt with low light conditions.

Credits have to be given to her as it was freezing in Paris when we took this shot:bsmilie:

Hi, would you mind share your settings of this excellent shots? I've noticed 6D tends to over-exposed where it's at the extreme brighter areas.

 

[Castlesinthesky]

Hi, would you mind share your settings of this excellent shots? I've noticed 6D tends to over-exposed where it's at the extreme brighter areas.

No problem, but which shot were you referring to? If it's the city scape one on the Eiffel, settings are already provided below.

I didn't have a problem on working with the dynamic range really. Didn't notice that problem on the highlights being blown on the shots I scanned through.

 

[road les traveled]

Sharing my humble opinion as a new user after spending 3 days with EOS 6D as follow:

1. Excellent low light shooting and image quality.
2. Low noise at high ISO up to 12800...
3. Tend to over-exposed brighter areas when the contrast within the frame are high.
4. Average auto focus for quick action shots especially shooting kids running around.
5. When using Av (Aperture Priority) mode, the shutter speed tends to bias to lower shutter speed (resulted in higher ISO; when ISO set to Auto)
6. Shutter release half press to lock focus is soft (difficult to control "half press")
7. Focus points placing seem to be too far apart, shift focus is needed to focus objects "in between". On the other hand, it's good as it seems to cover greater focus areas within the frame.
8. Excellent phase focus accuracy (stationary object) even for objects that's tiny and next to each other.
9. intermittent wifi connection with iPhone. At times, iPhone apps cannot connect to 6D thus, cannot use its remote shutter, remote viewing functions. Requires a lot of patience to wait for both the iPhone and 6D to get connected, not suitable for photo shoots in a hurry.
10. Having difficulty with the GPS connection. Either unable to connect or it takes a very long time to get connected to GPS.
11. Excellent image details when focus is locked on.
12. Noticed the slight "dark corner" on the photo when taken with 17-40mm lens. Not sure its from this ultra wide lens or from the lens hood, did not investigate further.
13. .....

There's many more observation to share and I hope to share when I find time...

 

[Castlesinthesky]

Sharing my humble opinion as a new user after spending 3 days with EOS 6D as follow:


9. intermittent wifi connection with iPhone. At times, iPhone apps cannot connect to 6D thus, cannot use its remote shutter, remote viewing functions. Requires a lot of patience to wait for both the iPhone and 6D to get connected, not suitable for photo shoots in a hurry.
10. Having difficulty with the GPS connection. Either unable to connect or it takes a very long time to get connected to GPS.

There's many more observation to share and I hope to share when I find time...

On points 9 and 10, i had no issues with mine. We predominantly used the EOS remote for self portraits in Europe because we didn't trust anyone with the camera. No problem with connections at all. I was using the iphone 5 if it helps.

GPS for me on the 6D and also the 1DX was snappy in terms of lock on, took less than 10 seconds after initial power up to lock on in an open area. Once locked on and if i went to switch the camera off and then on, the GPS signal would be almost instant, like less than 5 seconds.

Here's one last shot of the front panoramic view from the Notre-Dame Cathedral before I retire for the night. This one along with the Eiffel shoots were the most scary in Paris. Your hands are freezing so much that it hurts just to hold the camera steadily and manually focus. i had to hold it out to try and get the shots decently captured and I had no strap attached at all to the cameras. i've never thought shooting in winter would be so damn hard. At the end of the tour on the top of the cathedral, my hands were all numb because I was just focusing on getting the picture.:cry:

Thank god for compactness!

 

[road les traveled]

No problem, but which shot were you referring to? If it's the city scape one on the Eiffel, settings are already provided below.

I didn't have a problem on working with the dynamic range really. Didn't notice that problem on the highlights being blown on the shots I scanned through.

The photo with the lady. In fact i would expect the "windows/louvre" got blown based on my experienced with 6D. Reason is that since its low light and taken hand held, I would expect the ISO would have been cranked up rather high, maybe 4k, and when this happened, the "brighter" areas would have over-exposed.

 

[SoundOfSilence]

No problem, ISO was at 1600, 1/20 F2.8.

Unrelated to the 6D, but as a testament to the ISO capabilities of current gen Canon cameras here's another pano done of the foucault pendulum at the Pantheon with the 1DX. Handheld with the tilt shift 17 TSE. Shutter speeds were less than 1/13 as it was super duper dark inside even with ISO speeds boosted.

6D iso up to 6400, is nothing short of phenomenal, not only is noise level low, the noise grains are very fine and not rough, preserving alot more details and makes it easier to NR

12800 is still pretty excellent except for shadow areas, where the purple clipping is pretty obvious...however, if the overall picture doesn't have much shadow areas or is exposed more to the right, 12800 is overall extremely useable

I feel 25600 and above is more for emergency use only

Btw, about the GPS, does it mean its logging and working if the lcd panel at the top says "gps log"?

Because I tried it at home, but I can't seem to find the gps data anywhere in my shot exif:dunno:

 

[Castlesinthesky]

6D iso up to 6400, is nothing short of phenomenal, not only is noise level low, the noise grains are very fine and not rough, preserving alot more details and makes it easier to NR

12800 is still pretty excellent except for shadow areas, where the purple clipping is pretty obvious...however, if the overall picture doesn't have much shadow areas or is exposed more to the right, 12800 is overall extremely useable

I feel 25600 and above is more for emergency use only

Btw, about the GPS, does it mean its logging and working if the lcd panel at the top says "gps log"?

Because I tried it at home, but I can't seem to find the gps data anywhere in my shot exif:dunno:

I agree with you on all counts of this. I hardly went beyond 6400 on the 6D and for me to push it to those levels means that it is a really have to grab the shot situation.

The GPS and logger are two different things. The logger tracks the travel of your camera and its photographic journey, logging it and saves the route down as a .KMZ file for you to load on to Canon's own map utility or google earth. And yes, you need to have GPS signal.

GPS if locked on proper will stay constant on the LCD. When you take a picture, the location data is saved with the EXIF info. If you have light room, look at the thumbnails of the photos that are geotagged. There will be a little signboard in it which says "photo has gps co-ordinates"

When I publish the photos to flickr, it automatically defines the exact location where the picture was taken. Done fuss free. Of course one can also opt to take out the data before publishing if he/she prefers.

 

[george671]

I think I will soon get this camera...Its very light weight and seems to do the job quit well...I was always wondering what people need GPS in a camera for, but I guese some of you want to see where you have been??? I still think its kind of a frivolous add on, but then again, I always knew where I was...He He.. Great photos of Paris...

 

[doodah]

Castlesinthesky: I like your aerial view shot from the top of Eiffel tower. Nice!

I am very impressed by your 17 TSE shot... so tempting to get a TSE for deep DOF in landscape shooting... sigh...

I've noticed 6D tends to over-exposed where it's at the extreme brighter areas.

I suggest you assign shutter button to lock exposure only and use the AF button to lock AF. This allows you to lock both AF and exposure independently and correctly. One trick to lock exposure correctly is to place the center of the viewfinder at the intersection between the dark and bright portions of a scene and then half press the shutter button.

What you just described, over-exposure at extreme bright areas, does not seem like standard behavior from a Canon camera. Nikon tends to over-expose while Canon, underexpose. In any case, one ought to employ the right shooting technique to overcome camera limitations. Cameras are dumb machines, it's all up to the person behind the camera.

 

[Castlesinthesky]

I think I will soon get this camera...Its very light weight and seems to do the job quit well...I was always wondering what people need GPS in a camera for, but I guese some of you want to see where you have been??? I still think its kind of a frivolous add on, but then again, I always knew where I was...He He.. Great photos of Paris...

If you're in Singapore, naturally you'll think the GPS function is next to useless unless you're say a bird shooter. But when you travel extensively, that's where the magic starts. I took the 6D brochure the other day when I sent both cameras in for cleaning and needless to say,this was one of the functions they promoted extensively.

If you want to get your camera, start by going to Click Cameras. Great staff, impeccable service.

Castlesinthesky: I like your aerial view shot from the top of Eiffel tower. Nice!

I am very impressed by your 17 TSE shot... so tempting to get a TSE for deep DOF in landscape shooting... sigh...

Thanks, huge compliments coming from you. I've seen your gallery and know that you've got a great photographic eye and technique.

The TSE 17 is an exceptional lens and it has proven its capabilities (to me at least) on this trip. I wanted to get the 24 TSE to bring along as well, but click wasn't able to procure a copy for me on time due to short supply. Canon's unrivalled at the moment for its range of TSE lens and if I may say so will serve you exceptionally well should you choose to get a copy.

Looking back, i count my blessings that I managed to get some decent shots while playing the role of a tourist,watching out for my wife to be, extreme pain and numbness in winter and dealing with manual focusing issues in uber low light situations:bsmilie:

The shots at Arc De Triomphe were exceptionally fun. haha

 

[clickcameras]

If you're in Singapore, naturally you'll think the GPS function is next to useless unless you're say a bird shooter. But when you travel extensively, that's where the magic starts. I took the 6D brochure the other day when I sent both cameras in for cleaning and needless to say,this was one of the functions they promoted extensively.

If you want to get your camera, start by going to Click Cameras. Great staff, impeccable service.



Thanks, huge compliments coming from you. I've seen your gallery and know that you've got a great photographic eye and technique.

The TSE 17 is an exceptional lens and it has proven its capabilities (to me at least) on this trip. I wanted to get the 24 TSE to bring along as well, but click wasn't able to procure a copy for me on time due to short supply. Canon's unrivalled at the moment for its range of TSE lens and if I may say so will serve you exceptionally well should you choose to get a copy.

Looking back, i count my blessings that I managed to get some decent shots while playing the role of a tourist,watching out for my wife to be, extreme pain and numbness in winter and dealing with manual focusing issues in uber low light situations:bsmilie:

The shots at Arc De Triomphe were exceptionally fun. haha

24-70 Mark II has just arrived, hinting at 6D Kit with 24-70 might be here soon too!

Lynn