Canon M6 Mark II Review

EOS M6 Mark II

The newest complement to the Canon range is the EOS M6 Mark II APS-C mirrorless camera that demonstrates that EOS R cameras are not just full-frame cameras. The M6 II is now the flagship in both the M5 and M6 models of the EOS-M series.

The all-new 32,5-megapixel sensor is the most impressive part of the M6 II, making it the ultimate crop sensor camera you can purchase. It also offers some of the speeds I saw on a mirrorless camera. To keep your pictures clear, the Canon autofocus hardware is upgraded, together with face and eye detections, to the amazing dual pixel system. This provides a full sensor instead of a 4 K unit, which is more useful than the previous M6 version for videographer and vloggers.

EOS M6 Mark II

It is competitively priced on the first ever APS-C mirrorless version of Nikon, the Fujifilm X-T30 and competing versions such as Sony A6400. The Z 50. However the M6 Mark II is also hobbled by the lack of certain key features in light of the outstanding specifications.

Canon's M6 Mark II is a two-sided lens. On the upper part, 14 fps burst shooting rates are delivered and all competing goods are beaten. The eye-and face-detection system also has good, but not very up to the standard of Sony. It's Canon's first full-sensor 4 K mirrorless camera. And it's the highest resolution APS-C camera ever, with a 32-megapixel lens. The concern is that the EOS-M lenses of Canon are not bright enough and while they are marketed as professional shooters, they do not have an EVF like a contest. It is the same thing as the EOS-M lenses.

EOS M6 Mark II

APS-C phones offer the big benefit of a compact size compared to full-frame lenses, and Canon is a cleaver. For comparison to the 660 grams EOS R, the battery and memory card weights only 408 grams. However, due to the low EOS M mount length, most lenses are also quite compact.

The downside of the mount is that EOS M and EOS R cameras can't share lenses, unlike Sony's E-mount and Nikon's Z. While you may also argue that Nikon's Z 50 mount is comically wide for the body size, Nikon may make optically superior lenses. It is also conceivable.

EOS M6 Mark II

Beside, the add-on EVF-DC2 gives a decent 2.36 million points, 120 Hz OLED, but it's not blackout-free. Fujifilm's X-T30 has a blank EVF, which ensures that during the filming of action scenes you won't miss anything at any moment.

The M6 Mark II is also missing in the skin-a feature on the original M6. This is a feature, though, which no competitor has. Both EOS M zoom lenses will be balanced, but either EF-M 32 mm f/1.4 or EF-M 22 mm F2 will not display you. These are some of the sharper lenses in the EF-M series, and this is crucial for this camera, as you will be soon seeing.

You can use the "Q" fast menu to change the most popular settings if you can't find the features on a dial you like. If everything else fails, you can go to the main menu options, which can be done a lot easier than the unintelligent Sony app.

EOS M6 Mark II

All menus can be accessed via 1,04 million dot touch display together with touch focus settings. It is upwards for high-end shooting, approximately 45 degrees, and upwards for hunters and vloggers, upwards, 180 degrees. I prefer the upside-down screen at Nikon Z 50, which won't work if you use a tripod.

You will have to carry many of these batteries, as the M6 II can shoot quickly. In mechanical-shutter mode it can achieve bursts quicker than any other sensor, with an continuous autofocus and self-explosion allowing, with a sensor with much higher resolution than competing cameras. Remember that while the M6 II is in silent mode, it may not be used for constant explosive fire. This is a significant weakness for outdoor sports and hunting and the Z 50, X-T30 and A6400 are all secretly capable of shooting.

When we have stuck with some 25 megapixels for years now, it is great to have a 32.5 megapixel sensor on a crop sensor camera. This provides high-resolution images other than the latest Canon 90D DSLR lens with the same sensor than any other APS C camera. It ensures that better shots can be taken and detail can be collected.

EOS M6 Mark II

It provides photos with exact colors and living skin tones when shoting JPEGs combined with Canon's excellent color science. The 14-bit RAW files are big at about 50 MB but they provide clearer images than the competition to correct composition errors and to tweak colors and tones as you like. They also provide you with plenty of latitude.

But, there is a huge problem in this process with a high-resolution sensor. Canon had only eight M-series lenses and the two I checked out were not sharp enough (the kit EF-M 15-45 mm f/3,5-6,3 f/4,5-6,3 EF-M 55-200 mm f/4,5-6,3) to resolve a 32,5 megapixel, offering fuzzy images as I zoomed in.

EOS M6 Mark II

Sigma will soon release three premiums, which should be higher, for another alternative. You can also use the $150 Canon EOS M Mount converter for Canon DSLR EF-S lenses but then take away the benefits of the compact size of the M6 II!

The M6 II finally stars Canon with a camera that, unlike the EOS R and M50, can capture full-sensor video. It must be made a good vlogging or general purposes video phone, together with the flip-up display and marked Dual Pixel video autofocus. I would not necessarily recommend it for that, though, except that you're all right with some drawbacks.

The M6 II would seem to circumvent the entire APS-C sensor range rather than over-sampling. Then, they miss some pixels to produce a 3,840x 2,160 image, so that they can't read all pixels on the sensor.

EOS M6 Mark II

It seems like an underlying negative for every good for Canon's $850 M6 Mark II. It is more powerful than any other APS-C camera with 32,5-megapixel sensors, but the resolution can not be supported by many native lenses. You can fire incredibly fast, but not by the electronic silent shutter. It's pretty compact, but because a digital visor is absent. And it's the first Canon APS-C camera with 4 K full-sensor, but it's not that sharp as the competition is not very good.

I would consider the X-T30 of Fujifilm, instead, if you want a good all-around lens. It's a step down in 26.1 megapixel resolution, but at $800 you'll get better quality images and more features together with a great choice of ultra-sharp lenses. It can't match the M6 II with 8 fps of bursting rates, but it does give 20 fps of bursts in quiet mode.

The shining of the M6 Mark II is the good autofocus quality and clarity in its worldwide firing speeds. Nonetheless, you can mount one of the few sharp EF-M premium lenses to take advantage of that sensor or use cumbersome EF-S with an adapter. Note also that the discretionary EVF allocation is $200. Yet there's nothing else on the market that can suit it if you need a high-resolution film that can also withstand action— the rare dubbing for a movie.