I decided to upgrade from my Canon R to the R6. The Canon R6 has several improvements that are dramatically better. The biggest improvement is the focusing system which is extremely fast and accurate. It includes eye detection for people, animals and birds and it does work well. It also includes vehicle tracking if you shoot auto sports. The R6 can shoot at 12 frames per second mechanically and 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter which is fast enough for capturing birds in flight. DP's review of the extremely expensive Canon R3 showed no visual differences in low light performance to the Canon R6 which is pretty amazing. I also prefer the traditional mode selection dial on the R6 to my Canon R's LCD based mode selection process. The Canon R6 photo ... MoreI decided to upgrade from my Canon R to the R6. The Canon R6 has several improvements that are dramatically better. The biggest improvement is the focusing system which is extremely fast and accurate. It includes eye detection for people, animals and birds and it does work well. It also includes vehicle tracking if you shoot auto sports. The R6 can shoot at 12 frames per second mechanically and 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter which is fast enough for capturing birds in flight. DP's review of the extremely expensive Canon R3 showed no visual differences in low light performance to the Canon R6 which is pretty amazing. I also prefer the traditional mode selection dial on the R6 to my Canon R's LCD based mode selection process. The Canon R6 photo quality is sharper and more defined than my R which is surprising considering it has fewer pixels. My guess is the improvement is related to better filtering, sharpening and noise reduction algorithms in the R6's newer processor. I considered a Canon R5 but frankly did not want to deal with the extra cards and computer requirements related to the bigger files.

The R6 is my fourth Canon digital camera (Rebel TSi– 40D – 6D MKII – R6) and it’s the largest relative improvement of any of my upgrades – even considering that I upgraded from the excellent 6D MKII. There are four main areas of improvement I’d like to highlight, focus, picture quality, the new Fv mode setting, and customization. (1) The focus is unbelievable. Not only can I move the focus point with a touch of my thumb to anywhere within the frame, the R6 focusses faster, more accurately, and tracks moving objects far better than my 6D MKII. Moreover, the face / animal tracking feature, whether you have eye recognition selected or not, is unbelievably accurate. To test it, I focused on pictures in my house and the camera had no problem quickly finding the eye in ... MoreThe R6 is my fourth Canon digital camera (Rebel TSi– 40D – 6D MKII – R6) and it’s the largest relative improvement of any of my upgrades – even considering that I upgraded from the excellent 6D MKII. There are four main areas of improvement I’d like to highlight, focus, picture quality, the new Fv mode setting, and customization. (1) The focus is unbelievable. Not only can I move the focus point with a touch of my thumb to anywhere within the frame, the R6 focusses faster, more accurately, and tracks moving objects far better than my 6D MKII. Moreover, the face / animal tracking feature, whether you have eye recognition selected or not, is unbelievably accurate. To test it, I focused on pictures in my house and the camera had no problem quickly finding the eye in the photos. I also like that you add an electronic indicator (“Electronic full-time MF” in the AF 5 menu) that tells you when you are in focus when using manual focus. It’s comforting to know that I can go to manual focus and not have solely rely on my aging eyes to obtain focus. The only negative is that there are too many focus options, but this can easily be rectified by customizing the choices (“Limit AF methods” in the AF4 menu). (2) The picture quality from a color and detail perspective is better than my 6D MKII even though I stepped down from a 26 MP to a 20 MP sensor. The smaller sensor size was the biggest negative I had before my purchase, and the camera has mitigated the issue. (3) The Fv mode setting allows the user to quickly jump between shutter, aperture and ISO priority or any combination of the three (e.g., fully automatic; auto ISO, auto shutter, aperture priority; or auto shutter, set ISO, set aperture, etc.). After you get acclimated to the setting (there is an adjustment period), it is an excellent tool that negates the need to use Av or Tv settings. (4) The fourth area, though less important, is the degree of customization. I like to customize the menus to hold key items that I use often because I can’t remember where the information resides in the standard Canon menu layout. This camera allows for multiple customer menus, which I have set up for movies, photos, and general stuff like formatting SD cards. I also like that the mode dial has 3 customer settings, which I have set up for landscapes, portraits, and action/sports (my 6DMKII only had 2). I could go on and on about the extra ring on each RF lens that can be customized, smoothness of the shutter, more detailed information in the view finder to set up the shot, the view finder adjusts proportionately when exposure compensation is used, but you get the picture – I couldn’t be happier with my new camera.

I bought this camera about 4 months ago, i was debating this camera or the 1Dx Mk ii because here in Taiwan they were about the same price, the 1D would be used. I'm very glad i went with the R6. I use it mainly to take pictures and videos of my 2 todlers and it tracks them very well even when there is no light or very dark, the screen is black but it the camera is still tracking the eye or face. I upgraded to this camera from the 6Dmkii and it's about the same for photos, video however is much more of an upgrade than I expected, i really love the backup recording of photo and video, i keep two 512GB microSD Sandisk Extreme cards in it and it will record in every mode including 10bit Log at 60fps, canon states you need a UHS-II card but i have not had any problems ... MoreI bought this camera about 4 months ago, i was debating this camera or the 1Dx Mk ii because here in Taiwan they were about the same price, the 1D would be used. I'm very glad i went with the R6. I use it mainly to take pictures and videos of my 2 todlers and it tracks them very well even when there is no light or very dark, the screen is black but it the camera is still tracking the eye or face. I upgraded to this camera from the 6Dmkii and it's about the same for photos, video however is much more of an upgrade than I expected, i really love the backup recording of photo and video, i keep two 512GB microSD Sandisk Extreme cards in it and it will record in every mode including 10bit Log at 60fps, canon states you need a UHS-II card but i have not had any problems so far. I mostly record in the higher compressed 4k modes because the files are so big and it looks about the same to me. As far as battery life goes, I use a battery grip with 2 LP-E6NH batteries, we went on a 2 day 1 night trip and started with 100% battery, took about 2500 photos and about 1 hour of video and had about 30% battery life remaining. I'm very happy to use USB charging because it's so convinient compared to the bulky chargers that only charge one battery at at time. I use an anker 20W PD power adapter and a 60W rated 3ft or 6in usb C to C cable, the 10ft cable rated at 100W wont charge the camera, also works in the 45W outlet of the PD wall adapter. I keep it on 15 seconds to turn off the screen and either 30 seconds or 1 minute auto power off, i don't really review pictures becuase i know i got the shot and the exposure with auto ISO and manual everything else. I do wish it had GPS like my 6D had but i still have an old Canon GPS module that i attach to the hotshoe and it works great, GP-E2 i think. The camera has had an error 2 times since i bought it where I can't turn it on after it has been in my backpack for some time, i just pop out the battery tray and pop it back in and then it powers on. I can't really compare the image quality to my 5DsR because the difference is too great and they are completely different cameras, the R6 takes pictures fast and accurately, no waiting for focus, i mostly keep it on face detect and it gets the job done most of the time unless it's a difficult subject like someone on a horse going in circles in a ring in front of you doing acrobatics on the horse and constatnly moving with a complex background behind them then the focus will jump off the subject and it takes some effor to reaquire but it's miles ahead of the 5DsR where you have to choose the focus points and tracking is not so great, very difficult to get a tack sharp image on a moving subject, but very easy on the R6. I have never been even close to outrunning the buffer that is 64 deep with the UHS-I cards i have in it and the pictures go from the buffer to the camera almost instantly, compared to the 5DsR where if i take 8 pictures i have to wait 15 to 20 seconds to even be able to review or take more pictures. I only use EF glass with the control ring adapeter and everything works perfectly, i have 4 L lenses and i don't see a reason to upgrade while i still own the 5DsR.