Canon EOS R6 Mkii settings

[Mossberg]

Canon EOS R6ii settings

My R6 Mkii should be with me soon, and I would welcome some hints and tips on it's initial set-up. I hope to be using it early on for some internal portraits - without flash, using a hot shoe flash, and also some studio flash.

However, whilst I welcome advice on settings for the above, I would like advice on the general initial setup.

I have little experience and this camera is quite an investment for me. My original plan was to get experience before investing, but my big birthday treat gave me the opportunity of this purchase, and one of the ideas was to learn on a platform I will be sticking with.

Any help, as always, is gratefully received.

Mick

 

[cuthbert]

The auto focus system is quite complicated / so I’ve used the c1 c2 presets to quickly switch the camera into different modes; all the clever subject detect stuff in c1, then all of that turned off with an old fashioned single point I can move around in c2

I use c3 to quickly flip into electronic shutter with the camera set up to be super fast multi shot drive mode, ai stuff, servo all on,

It’s really handy to be able to flip between all this modes in a flip of a switch, each one makes it feel like a different camera for really different types of shooting.

The rest of the settings are pretty much the same as my old SLRs so I can pick up either and most stuff is in the same place.


One other thing I did is move ai servo to the front dof preview button on the front, and in photo mode, changed the start recording to dof preview.

Enjoy your camera!

 

[Phil V]

My initial setup for the mki R6 was gleaned from YouTube.
You don’t need the C settings for switching AF modes.
You can set AF ON as your standard back button focus, single point or whatever other mode. And then set * as eye detect af.
With that setup, it’s easy to switch between shooting ‘things’ and shooting people simply by moving your thumb from one back button to the other.

My normal shooting mode is AV with auto iso, and this makes using the camera so simple. For a spot of fill flash, switch from AV to P.

Where flash is the primary light source I use the following:

What I set C1 for, is flash photography. Because for flash I want to shoot in manual, with a static ISO and a fixed shutter speed below x sync, with exp simulation in the viewfinder disabled. And having all that changed just by spinning the dial to C1 is again, so easy.

 

[Mossberg]

Cuthbert, Phil, thank you very much. Typically the camera is due today and I am away for two weeks! Delivery was anything up to two weeks, and I wanted it to arrive before I got back, so ordered it on Monday! Four days instead of two weeks - well done Panamoz!