Introduction

The Canon EOS 6D Mark 2 is the company's latest total-frame DSLR aimed at advanced amateurs and enthusiasts, and even professionals looking for a second Canon DSLR body. Its all-new 26MP sensor has Dual Pixel technology for accurate autofocus during alive view shooting, and it gains the same 45-point autofocus organization from the crop-sensor EOS 80D for viewfinder shooting. A fully articulating touchscreen, built-in Wi-Fi and GPS capability, and 6.5 fps outburst shooting round out the package.

Coming to market over five years after the release of its predecessor, it should come up every bit no surprise that the 6D Mark Ii builds upon the original in almost every way. Resolution, autofocus performance, burst shooting speed, video shooting and even battery life are all improved.

That said, five years is a long time in the digital camera market, and the competition hasn't stood notwithstanding. So the question remains: Has the 6D Mark Two improved enough?

Allow's come across if it'southward all blue skies from here with the EOS 6D Mark II. Processed to gustatory modality from Raw.
Canon EF 24-105mm F4L II IS USM @ 32mm | ISO 100 | 1/640 sec | F5.vi
Photo by Jeff Keller

Fundamental specifications

  • New 26MP CMOS full-frame sensor with Dual Pixel AF
  • 1080/60p video capture with in-lens + digital stabilization
  • 45-betoken all-cross-blazon AF system
  • Dual Pixel AF for both stills and video capture
  • ISO 100-40,000 (expandable to 102,400)
  • 6.five fps continuous shooting (4.5 fps in Live View)
  • three" fully articulating touchscreen
  • Wi-Fi w/NFC and Bluetooth
  • Built-in GPS

The original EOS 6D, along with Nikon'southward D600, jump-started the notion of an 'entry-level' full frame photographic camera; a camera wherein the true value of the thing lay in the size of the sensor, with a somewhat scaled-dorsum characteristic ready and body surrounding it.

The EOS 6D Marking Two unabashedly follows in its predecessors' footsteps. Its unique, 26MP full frame sensor is wrapped in a fairly plasticky (though even so atmospheric condition sealed) torso, and information technology makes do with some compromises compared to its full-frame Catechism kin - nosotros should stress, though, that this is to exist expected given its substantial $1300 discount compared to the 5D Mark Four.

Compromises should be expected given its $1300 discount compared to the EOS 5D Mark IV.

And the compromises in the 6D II are largely the same as those fabricated by the 6D earlier information technology: The larger sensor is offset by a lower-spec autofocus system borrowed from the EOS 80D, a lack of 4K video, and a shutter mechanism that tops out at 1/4000 sec, to name a few.

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Canon EF 50mm F1.8 STM | ISO 100 | 1/250 sec | F3.2
Photo by Dan Bracaglia

But one could hands argue that, specially given its price signal, the 6D Mark II has a lot to offering. It is smaller and lighter than a 5D Iv, its articulating screen makes it easier to work at odd angles, and near importantly, it'due south an affordable entry into the world of full-frame Canon glass and increased depth-of-field control compared to similarly priced cameras with smaller APS-C sensors.

Compared

The market for 'affordable' full frame cameras is leagues more competitive than when the original 6D was released five years ago. We've included the 5D Mark Iv for comparative purposes just, every bit information technology's targeted at a much higher market than the 6D II.

Catechism 6D II Canon 5D Four Nikon D750 Sony a7 II Pentax M-1
Resolution 26MP 30MP 24MP 24MP 36MP
Image stabilization Lens-based Lens-based Lens-based In-body In-body
AF arrangement (viewfinder) 45-pt all cross-type 61-pt (41 cross-type) 51-pt (15 cross-type) 117-pt hybrid 33-pt (25 cross-type)
AF organization
(live view)		 Dual Pixel AF Dual Pixel AF Contrast Discover 117-pt hybrid Contrast Notice
Viewfinder Optical / 98% Optical / 100%

Optical / 100%

 Electronic / 100% Optical / 100%
LCD blazon 3" fully articulating 3.ii" stock-still iii.ii" tilting 3" tilting three.2" articulating
Touchscreen Yes Yes No No No
Built-in flash No No Yes No No
Flash sync one/180 sec 1/200 sec i/200 sec 1/250 sec 1/200 sec
Burst rate (w/AF) 6.v fps 7 fps 6.5 fps 5 fps 4.4 fps
Video 1080/60p 4K/30p 1080/60p 1080/60p 1080/30p
Wireless Wi-Fi westward/NFC & BT Wi-Fi due west/NFC Wi-Fi Wi-Fi due west/NFC Wi-Fi
Battery life 1200 shots 900 shots 1230 shots 350 shots 760 shots
MSRP (equally of July 2017) $1999 $3499 $1999 $1548 $1800

While at offset glance, information technology's apparent that the 6D Marker II is at least competitive with challengers from Nikon and Sony, it should be noted that both the D750 and a7 2 take been on the market for some time, and frankly, are due for an upgrade. For stills shooters, the Pentax One thousand-1 is in a somewhat different league, offering much higher resolution and build quality, but with a more than express lens ecosystem than you get with the Canon EF mountain.

But neither of those other systems feature Dual Pixel AF, which we've establish in other Canons to be a revelation for those that shoot video or stills in Alive View, fifty-fifty occasionally. Nosotros've said previously that Dual Pixel makes for one of the best Alive View experiences on the market, fifty-fifty though information technology's an 'old-schoolhouse' DSLR. And so allow's meet how the 6D Mark II stacks upwardly.