#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES INSTALL#
#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES SOFTWARE#
#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES PROFESSIONAL#

If youвЂ™re serious about time lapse creation and you own a Canon DSLR, Magic Lantern is essential.

#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES INSTALL#

If you want to install Magic Lantern on your 6D, youвЂ™ll need to follow the directions posted on the forum thread here. Furthermore, it adds a lot of menu complexity and the potential to induce some unusual behavior in your camera that may trip you up unless you realize that you may have forgotten having enabled some strange setting on Magic Lantern. I use Magic Lantern on the 6D, and it works, but stability is still not 100%, and itвЂ™s usage is not the fastest and is a little daunting for some.

What this means is that the 6D requires either an additional accessory for making time lapse sequences or you must install (through some initially daunting steps) a community developed custom firmware hack called Magic Lantern. It would require minimal development time and needs no extra hardware.

#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES SOFTWARE#

Why camera manufacturers have not made a software intervalometer a feature on every camera is beyond me.

It doesnвЂ™t have a built in intervalometer.В This is a complaint I could make about most DSLRs.

In the dark itвЂ™s really easy to mispress buttons on the 6D. All three of these buttons are placed for easy access to your thumb, but all of them are flush with the body and have no tactile feedback whatsoever. IвЂ™ve had this camera for a year and you would think that IвЂ™d have gotten used to where all the buttons are placed, but itвЂ™s surprisingly easy to accidentally press the вЂњQвЂќ button when you mean to press the вЂњMagnifyвЂќ button, or press the вЂњMagnifyвЂќ button when you meant to press the вЂњQвЂќ button. When shooting photos in the dark, itвЂ™s impossible to know what youвЂ™re pressing.

The buttons are spongy.В For normal operation, this is never a problem.

Strangely, the cheaper APS-C offerings by Canon, the EOS 60D and EOS 70D both have tilt screens. With the 6D youвЂ™ll find yourself on your stomach trying to look at the LCD when itвЂ™s this low to the ground. Since astrophotography usually calls for photos with more than half of the frame featuring the sky, itвЂ™s very common to place the camera in a low position so that your foreground subjects are situated against the sky. But when it comes to astrophotography in particular, the lack of a tilt screen makes composition and focusing much harder when the camera is positioned low to the ground.

#5D MARK III VS 6D LOW LIGHT PICTURES PROFESSIONAL#

It seems like a trivial point to make since tilt screens are usually associated with cheaper cameras and most professional level cameras arenвЂ™t expected to have a tilt screen. This is honestly the most annoying aspect of this camera. There are plenty of other articles that compare the 6D to its current generation rivals. This isnвЂ™t a comparison post or a pixel peeping post, itвЂ™s merely my opinions about the 6D. At the end of the article youвЂ™ll find some of my favorite photos from the 6D from the last year. IвЂ™ll start with what I donвЂ™t like and then IвЂ™ll move on to what I love. This review will be a quick overview of my thoughts on using the 6D as my primary camera for astrophotography. I would argue the 6D is one of the best full-frame cameras you can buy for astrophotography.

ItвЂ™s still CanonвЂ™s cheapest full-frame camera in production. IвЂ™ve had the pleasure of using the Canon EOS 6D for over a year. My review of the Canon EOS 6D: one of the best full-frame cameras for astrophotography Canon 6D with Rokinon 14mm/2.8 and 24mm/1.4, one of myВ favorite full-frame set ups for astrophotography

5d mark iii vs 6d low light pictures