Landscape photographer Graham Clarke has posted an interesting and descriptive review of the Canon EOS 6d after using and working with it for a year. He provides a pretty cool look that reviews purely on camera functionality, not marketing hype or statistics, and reminds you what to consider when buying a new camera. Clarke offers examples of the Canon EOS 6d functioning and durability and how the camera has stood up to the test of over 50,000 shutter activations in some of the planet’s most extreme conditions, think salt flats,mountains deserts.
Not afraid to call out the wifi function as useless, Clarke also offers anecdotes of being half drowned while photographing the sunset at the Golden Gate Bridge and how his camera stood up to the deluge of seawater. He backs up his claims by posting photos to show for example the image sensor and processor and the features he has been able to make use of in his work and how they have impacted on the outcome. It is a review that relies on personal experience and not driven by marketing hype or data.
When new cameras are released reviews are mostly based on the reviewer’s initial impressions after a short but intensive test of the model. So, this more comprehensive assessment of all the pros and cons that can get below the superficials and explore how actually using a camera that was marketed on it’s ultra lightweightness has worked for him in practice.
Each area you’d be interested in from image quality to hardware design is addressed in turn so you can read the whole thing or just the bits your interested. Available as a download PDF, blog post and youtube video its worth heading over and checking it all out, so click here.
What do you think?
Do you agree with what he says?