Hello I'm Adam and welcome to First Man Photography today in the video I'm gonna
be testing out this is the canon 6d mark ii so if you want to know how this
performs but you just love landscape photography or the great outdoors then
come with me
so those of you that have been watching me for a while will know that my reviews
are they're not the typical review that you might see on YouTube I like to go
out into the real world I'm not going to talk too much about stats and things
like that you can find that on other great channels I like to put a camera or
lens to the test in the real world and that's exactly what I'm gonna do today
we have come to the absolutely stunning Loughrigg Fell in the Lake District the
weather didn't start off very well today but it's come absolutely beautiful so
we've got some great conditions to test this out I'm gonna do a couple of
landscapes maybe a portrait as well to really put it through its paces and just
see how good this Canon 6D mark 2 really is the main point of a camera like this
is that it's full-frame and giving you that normally that extra dynamic range
that low-light ability and sometimes higher quality because you're getting
more of the image into slightly bigger pixels and it's just a better way of
capturing the light and that's what this camera is all about the full-frame also
lets you put much better lenses on the camera as well and still give you that
nice wide angle because this is a Canon 17-40mm lens if you put that on a
crop sensor camera then that crop factor increases out to around 24mm
so you get the better glass at the wide angle which makes it perfect for
landscape photography we've got a bit of a hike up the mountain all the video you
see today that isn't it doesn't have me in it will be shot on the 6D as well so
you'll be able to see what the video quality is like as well so let's get up
onto Loughrigg fell and see what we can do with this camera
okay so after being at the top there it was a little bit busy so we've hiked
down to this little ledge it's a place on a well I bring clients
here on the workshops but it's a spectacular location for getting this
amazing view over Loughrigg Tarn and then the mountains behind and I do have a
massive amount of drama behind me in the mountains here the weather front is kind
of coming across as all the steam and the rain or snow whatever is is coming
over the top of the mountain down into the valley but that's still being struck
by a little strand of sunlight and it's just creating a massive amount of drama
and I'm actually quite excited about it so what I'm going for
with Canon 6D Mark II is I've got the 70-200mm lens on the front here I've
gone in as close as I can with the digital zoom to manual focus I'm at
about 100mm a little bit more f/11 and then about shutter speed of 1/30
of a second iso 100 and it's gonna be epic I think I'm quite excited about it
this is the kind of shot that you dream about. Is this camera capable of picking
that up? I know I could with the Canon 5d Mark 4 I have total confidence in that
camera can I have confidence in this Canon 6D
mark II? - let's see let's take that shot.... 2 second timer there we go....lets have a look.
that is looking very nice
We've just jumped back to the studio just for a minute because did you see in that
time-lapse then the flickering that was going on now people have asked me before
how I avoid that flickering in my time-lapse is normally and the truth is
it is a little bit reliant on the gear with any camera when you're doing
time-lapse of a series of stills like I do the way it works are the way the
camera does it is just by taking shot after shot after shot after shot and you
are relying on the camera to produce the same exposure every single time because
that flickering comes from very minute changes in in the exposure and that
happens from the see that the aperture there the aperture has to do the same
thing every single time and when it's cold and with a camera like the canon 6d
mark 2 you're just getting tiny tiny little inaccuracies of the aperture as
you can see there and the shutter speed as well so they need to be exact
unlike this 5d Mark 4 which is very accurate
the 6D mark 2 is made of plastic again unlike this one and when it's cold
conditions like that that accuracy just slides away a little bit quicker than it
does with the Canon 5d Mark 4 so just something to bear in mind on that also
for this video I wanted to shoot a portrait as well when I was out on the
fells I really didn't have time I ran out of time because just the sun left
now the Canon 6d mark 2 is excellent in low-light so it is it does naturally
lend itself lend itself to doing portraits
however the autofocus system is whilst it's good and it's accurate and it's got
good number and number of points they are all really tightly packed into the
very middle of the frame what it feels like is that they're just transferred
the autofocus system from a camera like the 80D into the 6D and as that sensor has
then got bigger that the space in which those autofocus points cover is smaller
it's quite a bit smaller than the Canon 5d Mark IV.... I'll show you the focus
points here you can see how tightly packed they are in the mill
in the middle so it's not really a camera that I would probably use for any
kind of professional portrait work like a wedding you're constantly going to be
sort of pushing your focus point to the edge of the available focus points and
then reframing more often than you would have to with a camera , a more professional
camera like this Canon 5d Mark 4 so just a couple of things I wanted to mention
that I missed out basically when I was out on the fells because it was a lot
going on but let's go back to the fells now
So I am in position for my last shot of the day and because of my lack of fitness
it's taken me a little bit longer than planned to get here so I missed the best
of the light. I wanted some golden light just here on this stile, but I missed it
but because that there is a little bit of color in the sky looking over lake
windermere here it's another landscape shot and what I'm doing is just using
the wall behind me to lead you into the shots you've got that bit of interest
from the rocks and the style in the foreground and then
then have this S curve of the river or stream leading you in to the lake which
is then just a beautiful scene and it should work out a really nice shot it's
a classic shot it's not it's one that gets shot a lot but I wanted to do that
to compare the image I capture from the 6D Mark II here to others that I've
seen in this same location I am at f11 I'm shooting between 15 seconds and 30
seconds and I might bracket those two shots together to get the image sorted
and make it look really really nice it's windy it's cold so I'm struggling to
speak a little bit now but one of the problems that I have noticed with this
camera is the dynamic range especially when you are at lower ISO and iso 100
particularly it's frustrating because the dynamic range just isn't as good as
it could be at ISO 100 it gets better as you put the ISO up and it does make this
camera a really really good performer for low-light situations but the dynamic
range is a problem I've noticed it shooting the video throughout the day as well
that sky is just blown out more than I would have liked it to be and in fact
the 800 D that I'm shooting this on now has probably performs a little bit
better even though that is a crop sensor camera bit disappointing but there are a
lot of upsides let's capture this shot though and see what the stunning scene
here in the Lake District is going to provide us for this image
beautiful scenery beautiful images stunning light at times as well
a good test of the Canon 6D MArk II. I'm gonna sum it up in one second.
so my final thoughts about the canon 6d mark 2 it's a really good camera I've had a great
day using it for landscape photography it is a pretty strong camera the flip
out screen makes it good for those low down landscapes particularly if you've
got it in a stream or in low down to the ground you can start tilt it up and
really use that screen to your benefit there are some downsides like I said
that dynamic range just it just isn't there in this camera this camera is
quite similar to the Canon 80D but it just has a full-frame full-frame sensor
I think that's probably the best way to describe it I also wouldn't use this
camera for professional video productions like a would the Canon 5d
Mark 4 but it's still a good camera for video there's no doubt about it you
could vlog quite happily with this you could take video of your family with this it
would be quite a good camera for your sort of video needs as long as they're
not professional and obviously it has the dual pixel autofocus that all the Canon
cameras now have which just makes the autofocus for video and in the live view
in fact absolutely perfect and it very very rarely misses never in fact it
hasn't missed today when I've been using it so there's a lot of good things like
I said it's not a professional camera but it isn't priced like a professional
camera so you can't really complain and that's why I've really enjoyed using
this at £$1600 pounds and dollars in the u.s. it's a good deal to get you into
that full frame and take your photography gear to that next level and
you start to enter into the realms of using really nice glass and then if you
wanted to upgrade the body later to something better you could do that and I
think that's why Canon have produced that this camera and I don't think it's
a mistake them doing that I've had a great day shooting this and I hope
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as soon as they come out come out I've had a great day here it's been immense
leave a comment down below let me know if you have this camera let me know what
you think of it I'd really love to hear from you I use it a fair bit now and I
really like it so I'll see you on another video
very very soon I'm Adam this is first man photography in the absolutely
stunning surroundings of the Lake District.
Out!!!