Just got my first mirrorless last week, and have been getting frustrated over the screens and getting them to look as I want them. After watching this video, I feel as if I now have my camera where I want it. Your descriptions also make everything so much easier to understand. I am both a bird photographer and a studio photographer and now feel much more comfortable taking this camera out to capture images. Oh, and I love that you mentioned the AWB(W) setting as I did not realize that the menu had options that I had not scrolled over to see. Thank so much. I have subscribed and will check out what other goodies you have that may make my mirrorless journey a bit smoother. Thanks so much Daniel!

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Randy Camera! I am thrilled to hear that the videos are helping you out! There are a lot of settings on these new cameras. Something like 200 pages in the manual. The EOS 500 had maybe 20 pages. Crazy how far cameras have come.

Thanks for this mate:)

Thanks for making this video, I just bought new strobes and my VF was completely dark while trying to shoot with them, was so frustrating because I knew there was a setting just didn’t know where to find it! Problem solved. Thanks!

Thank you

Another awesome and timely review! I didn’t know a firmware was released for the R6. Love the viewfinder brightness auto function. I usually shoot ice hockey indoors with a very bright ice background, but the lighting indoor is dim, then also do outdoor shooting of wildlife and need to jack up the brightness. We’ll see if this helps out! Thanks!!

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Pete! Glad it helped! The firm ware had been out for almost a month but truth be told I just updated it recently haha. I am also looking forward to seeing if the auto function is as good as it should be. How is the R6 treating you for the hockey 🏒 I am interested to see if it fills the sport photographers needs like it was suppose to.

@petegalindez9961

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon The camera has been AMAZING with ice hockey. Took a few sessions to tweak the settings with the tracking, lighting, etc. but got it pretty dialed in for 99% of the shots I take. I have two lenses now. The primary weapon is the CANON RF 70-200 2.8, which is small, light, and just awesome. I just picked up a Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM and use he adapter to connect it to the R6 for wildlife, but also used it for hockey and found it worked very well. Especially since I usually have to shoot from center ice to be able to get over the glass and my son is at either end in net. So, cuts down on the cropping and even with the 6.3 at 6000mm, the camera does a great job of capturing enough light to get sharp photos (I think I’m usually in the 250-300mm range most of the time so probably not at the full 6.3, but closer to 5.6. Love it! The tracking and AF work great with the adapter. No issues.

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

@@petegalindez9961 very nice it’s good to hear it is killing it for sports! Mechanical shutter or electronic?

@petegalindez9961

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon Mechanical shutter primarily. I usually take about 400 shots over the span of a game, and having grown up playing, I have a good idea when to snap, so I don’t usually spray and pray. However, the one game where I tested out the electronic shutter I shot 1,200 photos! It worked very well, but I don’t think I captured anything I would not have captured otherwise. I will test it again soon. BTW, I like one of the other updates with firmware 1.2 where it puts a blank screen in between shots while shooting fast to help with fast moving action looking through the viewfinder. Haven’t tried it yet, but will next week.

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

@@petegalindez9961 Ah yes that is a thing that they did with the blank slot. should feel less gitery and more like the DSLRs did.

Hi, is that "smooth " option which allows to better evf preformance working only on RF lenses or adapted too ? i have problem with laggy (fps down) look when it's little darker ... using adapted 35L 1.4 first edition.

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

The smooth setting only effects the refresh rate of the EVF. The RF lenses speeds are more effected by a low battery than low light.

thx for your video :)

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Marc! What did you think of the format?

@DJBastor

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon the format is great, course most users bought an r6 instead of an r5. on yt there are fewer videos about the r6 than the r5

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

Why thank you! I think that there is a large divergence between the large youtubers and the average user. They have the funds that are made by using their gear to put it towards more gear and so the extra thousand isn't a big deal to them.

@DJBastor

3 жыл бұрын

So true.

Have you ever used Auto in the Viewfinder brightness? Wondering how well that works.

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

2 жыл бұрын

I think I have before but I turned it off because I am often only in one type of lighting environment at a time.

It would have been nice if you had actually shown many of the things like the display orientation rotating and whatnot. I understand but newbs could use real-world demos of things.

@DanielWhiteWithCanon

3 жыл бұрын

Hi David! I did consider broll for that and many other parts however I still have yet to find a good way to film/record inside the viewfinder. Thank you for the insite I do hope to have more broll in upcoming videos.

If I hear one one reviewer asking why I would want to shoot Jpegs rather than Raw I'm going to explode!! I shoot sports - See it, crop it, wire it - no time for Raw

"If you're just a jpeg shooter - and I don't know why you would be ....". Showing ignorance there.