topic Re: Dynamic Range in Canon 6D Vs Canon 6D Mark II ? in EF & RF Lenses

Dynamic Range in Canon 6D Vs Canon 6D Mark II ?

Janabi79 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:57:25 GMT

i am Using Canon 6D for Urban landscape Photography

Thanks alot for the responses in this Canon Comunity earlier 1 year when i got the encorgment to buy the 6D instead of the 5D Mark III as 6D considered better in low light conditions ( as i am usually do photography during Night and Sunset )

So the question now is what about Dynamic Range in the New Canon 6D Mark II ,

is it better than the Canon 6D i have ? any advise ? recomandation ?

Re: Dynamic Range in Canon 6D Vs Canon 6D Mark II ?

Waddizzle — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:34:08 GMT

There is no significant improvement in low light performance with the 6D2. The most significant improvements are with the AF systems. It also has 30% higher resolution than the 6D. It also creates much larger RAW files, roughly 40MB.

Re: Dynamic Range in Canon 6D Vs Canon 6D Mark II ?

Peter — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:08:31 GMT

@Janabi79 wrote:
i am Using Canon 6D for Urban landscape Photography

Thanks alot for the responses in this Canon Comunity earlier 1 year when i got the encorgment to buy the 6D instead of the 5D Mark III as 6D considered better in low light conditions ( as i am usually do photography during Night and Sunset )

So the question now is what about Dynamic Range in the New Canon 6D Mark II ,

is it better than the Canon 6D i have ? any advise ? recomandation ?

To analyze, you can use dcraw and hraw tool. How I use them in the terminal in Ubuntu:

§ dcraw -E -4 -j -t 0 -s all 6D-II-raw-file.CR2

Open 6D-II-raw-file_0.pgm in GIMP or PS and count the black pixels to the left and on the top. With 6D II, it is 120px and 44px.

§ hraw analyze -i 6D-II-raw-file_0.pgm -m 120 44 -c G

ReadNoise=7.53556 DR@26=11.0403 DR@8=11.8956 file

With my 6D I got:

§ dcraw -E -4 -j -t 0 -s all 6D-raw-file.CR2

Open 6D-raw-file_0.pgm in GIMP or PS and count the black pixels to the left and on the top. With 6D, it is 72px and 38px.

§ hraw analyze -i 6D-raw-file_0.pgm -m 72 38 -c G

ReadNoise=4.7706 DR@20=11.453 DR@8=12.1201 file

The image below shows the black area to the left and at the top. Measured to be 72px from the left.

Re: Dynamic Range in Canon 6D Vs Canon 6D Mark II ?

shadowsports — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:35:38 GMT

@Janabi79 wrote:
i am Using Canon 6D for Urban landscape Photography

Thanks alot for the responses in this Canon Comunity earlier 1 year when i got the encorgment to buy the 6D instead of the 5D Mark III as 6D considered better in low light conditions ( as i am usually do photography during Night and Sunset )

So the question now is what about Dynamic Range in the New Canon 6D Mark II ,

is it better than the Canon 6D i have ? any advise ? recomandation ?

Janabi79,

No doubt the 6D2 id a great camera. I love mine for several reasons. I stepped up to it from a T6s. Since you already own the 6D and it, for the most part sounds like its meeting your needs, I would not recommend the 6D2 for your situation. While Canon did improve on just about every aspect of the previous body, the bump in performance between the 2 platforms is modest for someone coming from a 6D. Because of this, I would suggest stepping up to a 5D4 (new or refurb). If you were coming from another body as I did (like APS-C), I'd tell you to get the 6D2.