Now I need to wait until Jan 2nd before it's in my hands. Amazon has a decent deal on them. They're $1999 and you get 6% back in store credit. That brings the final price to $1879.
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Now I need to wait until Jan 2nd before it's in my hands. Amazon has a decent deal on them. They're $1999 and you get 6% back in store credit. That brings the final price to $1879.
Nice ! So far I've had a lot of fun with the camera, even if I'm still waiting for some good weather to use it outside.
I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures. I guess your cats will have to pose again soon.
Congrats Mark...that is great. I look forward to hearing your thoughts...
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Originally Posted by Kayaker72
Dave
Congrats! I just got mine about 6 days ago. I love it.
What did you have before? And what PP program do you use?
I upgraded from crop body, and am enjoying the low-light ability. Amazing to shoot 3200 with better IQ than I used to get at 1600 or 800. As for PP, I was a little shocked to realize I had to upgrade from LR3 to LR4 (to let Adobe read the 6D's Camera RAW), but having jusdt done so, I really like the new version.
Thanks, Folks. Amazon just informed me it will be delivered this Friday. Our office is closed then, but I will be at work anyway. Maybe I'll get lucky and catch the UPS guy on his rounds.
I currently shoot with a 7D, which I'll be keeping. But I too am looking forward to cleaner high ISO shots. With some careful exposure and some post processing, I can get usable 3200 ISO shots from the 7D, but I've seen usable shots at 12800 ISO from the 6D. I have Photoshop CS6.
There are few things in life as cool as opening up a new camera box. :D
I'm amazed how quiet this thing is compared to the 7D.
http://bimmermail.com/6D01-sm.jpg
Nice! :) Have fun Mark!
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Originally Posted by Sheiky
It isn't even mine and I feel like a kid at Christmas.....Let us know how you like your new toy...er...camera.... :o
No post worthy pics yet. Just some test shots in the office. But man, I need to learn to shoot all over again. The detail on a FF is awesome (no news to you FF users here, I'm sure) and this camera laughs at high ISO noise. No more missing available light shots because I can't get a decent SS at or below 3200 ISO. This is going to be fun. ;)
Congrats Mark! I am eager to see the shots you can get with this compared to a the 7d at high ISO. That has always been my only issue with the 7d especially this time of year!
Here you go. 6400 ISO and a pretty good crop. Never would have pulled this off with the 7D.
http://bimmermail.com/kitties/ollie19-sm.jpg
Just had an "Ah ha!" moment with the shot above. The back of the couch where the cat is sleeping is at an angle to me. I focused on his head between his ears and then recomposed to get him in the frame better. Even though the camera's focus was locked, the plane of focus shifted slightly when I recomposed because of the angle. You can see the pattern on the couch is sharply in focus while his head is slightly OOF.
I'll have to re-think focus and recompose when shooting at an angle like that. This may have been a case where having all the focus points available and the choosing the proper one would have worked better than focus and recompose.
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Mark,
Now that you've had the 6D for a while what are your thoughts?
Dave
I love it. Being able to shoot at high ISOs with confidence changes the way you look at lighting. And the fact that it easily AFs at f8 makes my Kenko 2x TC a bit more useful. I just need more time to get out and shoot. I spent the last four or five days recovering from a nasty bout of Norwalk virus that swept through our office and the rest of campus. Tomorrow and Saturday are supposed to be warm, so maybe I'll get out and shoot a bit.
Beautiful shot. I think since the cat is sleeping and not looking at camera, the precise point of focus is not terribly important.
I love my 6D. The one, single, and only reason I went Full Frame was for the high IQ at high ISO. I still cannot believe I can take a good shot at ISO 5000 or 6400, when I would balk at even using ISO 400 (Heaven forbid 800!) on my T3i crop camera.
Plus, I can grab focus in that big, bright, and RED center AF square in darned near dark.
Here's one I just shot. This pic doesn't really show how dark it is in the shot. Just one 3-way bulb set about 2/3 brightness on my end of the sofa. Still locked on focus fine. Not bad noise for ISO 4000 either. Love this camera. I can just grab it and shoot and not even consider the low lighting.
http://bimmermail.com/kitties/wally17-sm.jpg