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Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:22:33 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:41:50 GMT

Thank you very much for the explanation. greetings

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

TCampbell — Wed, 09 May 2018 22:04:41 GMT

"plasticized" sounds like something is going heavy-handed on the noise-reduction.

What happens if you shoot the images as 'RAW' and don't process them (all RAW images need a bit of adjustment ... but just for the sake of testing, if you were to do this would your images still look 'plasticized'?)

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

ebiggs1 — Thu, 10 May 2018 15:17:31 GMT

" My Canon 6D Mark II, leaves a few smooth * plasticized * photos, should be in the image / sharpness / sharpness / clarity / limit style"

Reset the camera back to factory default. In Tools tab clear all settings. You set something up wrong and now you need to go back to square one. Don't try to fix what you have until you know what you have.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:30:45 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

ebiggs1 — Thu, 10 May 2018 15:29:52 GMT

"Don't try to fix what you have until you know what you have."

You need to reset it.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:21:41 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RobertTheFat — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:00:58 GMT

@RaulCoelho wrote:

Your posting of this photo, together with your previous comments, suggests that you don't understand "depth of field". Google the term and read the resulting articles, giving particular attention to the effects of aperture, focal length, and sensor size (e.g., the difference in behavior of full-frame and APS-C cameras).

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

TCampbell — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:13:13 GMT

To Bob's point... did you intend for this to have the blurred background? Is that the "softness" to which you were referring?

The focused subject's face does look sharp (at least it does at this size).

Your depth of field is shallow (subject's ears are less focused then their face... their shoulders are much less focused.) Depth of field is primarily properties of a combination of focal length, focal ratio, & focused distance (i.e. your lens choice & setting choices.)

In an indirect way, sensor size also influences depth of field. It isn't the sensor size per se... it's that SINCE the sensor is larger, a photographer is likely to stand closer to the subject (assuming same focal length lens) to capture a similar composition (vs. where they would need to stand if they had an APS-C crop-sensor size camera and wanted that same composition). It's that behavior change... the fact that photographer chose to stand closer... that creates a shallower depth of field.

Regardless of the reason, it is generally accepted as something that portrait photographers prefer ... a shallow depth of field that renders the subject sharp, but a background which will pleasantly blurred.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:23:24 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:23:45 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:24:31 GMT

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

shadowsports — Fri, 11 May 2018 14:16:37 GMT

Body, glass and technique. I have taken hundreds of razor sharp photos with my 6D2. As many here say, "practice, practice, practice".

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Fri, 11 May 2018 14:49:45 GMT

This is not practice, 20 years with Canon and none of them had problems like this, problem that the camera came with manufacturing problem mentioned by the technician of the house that sold me, loaned another Canon 6D Mark 2, while the other goes for the assistance and this yes, NOTHING HAS HAVER with the other, the sharpness is NORMAL as in any other canon that I have, so practice, practice I do not need at this time. With the Canon 5D Mark II I have now taken 185,000 photos and I NEVER had a problem, so there are already many photos

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

shadowsports — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:38:55 GMT

@RaulCoelho wrote:
This is not practice, 20 years with Canon and none of them had problems like this, problem that the camera came with manufacturing problem mentioned by the technician of the house that sold me, loaned another Canon 6D Mark 2, while the other goes for the assistance and this yes, NOTHING HAS HAVER with the other, the sharpness is NORMAL as in any other canon that I have, so practice, practice I do not need at this time. With the Canon 5D Mark II I have now taken 185,000 photos and I NEVER had a problem, so there are already many photos

Ok, so your telling us your 6D2 had a manufacturing defect... and you are getting it fixed. Then moving forward you'll be taking sharp images with your newly serviced body. The same body I'm using and really like.

Since you've gone back and deleted your posts and comments, All I can assume is you purchased a camera tha thad a defect and are taking steps to correct it. I was also one of the lucky ones who got a good "body" that works as I expect it to.

So I hope yours gets "fixed" and you'll be as satisfied as I am.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

ebiggs1 — Sat, 12 May 2018 13:52:07 GMT

"Ok, so your telling us your 6D2 had a manufacturing defect... and you are getting it fixed."

I am not so convinced he has a problem but at least when he gets it back, he will have confidence the camera is OK.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

shadowsports — Sat, 12 May 2018 16:33:11 GMT

Ernie,

Yes. I couldn't discern what he was facing with the previous info removed.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

Waddizzle — Sat, 12 May 2018 16:52:28 GMT

@shadowsports wrote:
Ernie,
Yes. I couldn't discern what he was facing with the previous info removed.

There may have been a batch of cameras to leave the factory with a misaligned AF sensor assembly. There is more than one thread on this forum about poorly focusing 6D II bodies. When owners sent them in for warranty repair, the reported diagnosis was always related to the AF sensor assembly. I recall that it was reportedly misaligned.

Re: Canon 6d Mark II /very soft photos

RaulCoelho — Sat, 12 May 2018 18:14:53 GMT

Of this machine substitute yes that I like, it is what I have used the canon in recent years, this machine with the same configuration of the other pleases me, has sharpness and excellent image. the assistance is for this, maybe problem in the focus would not be the first. Only that the assistance of the canon is very time consuming. I have an 80D canon that after 2 months also broke down. I was working and disconnected from nowhere, they told me it was from the card slot, I do not know if it would be or just know that now it works very well, films with excellent image and photography is also excellent. Thanks to friends. greetings