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Really unhappy with EOS R6. Curious to know if others have similar Wi-Fi, IBIS, color issues.

johninbigd
Enthusiast

I previously had a 60D, a 6D, then an R. I recently upgraded to the R6 and have mostly been unhappy with the expenditure. I do love the improved eye AF. That makes shooting a breeze! I also love the AF joystick and and the return of the old style control wheel. So nice! But.....the problems.

 

In order of mild to worst:

 

1. Horrible wifi connectivity problems

2. IBIS doesn't seem to work with any of my lenses (Tamron and Sigma, through an adapter)

3. Colors are horrible and photos lack contrast, creating a flat smeared sort of look that is really unpleasant

 

I process my photos in Lightroom Classic and have the most recent version available. I had zero problems with the 60D, 6D and R. Photos from any of those bodies look fantastic, especially the R. Colors are vibrant, skin tones are gorgeous, and there is plenty of contrast. I've done two shoots with the R6 and I absolutely hate the results. So much so that I'm already considering selling it. It's too late to return it, unfortunately. 

 

Have any of you run into these issues, particularly with the color and contrast?

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@shadowsports wrote:

But getting back on topic.

 

 

2. I think Wadizzle is right about this.  (IBIS) I can't find anything conclusive,but reviewing your manual with a fine tooth comb might help.  Canon has a tendency to document this stuff, if you look closely.  This also goes back to @shawphoto's post regarding using the "Canon System" or like hardware.  Its true Canon sells a system that when used together is unlikely to be surpassed from a compatibility, reliablity and consistent results standpoint. 

 

  


This image is from the Canon USA online store.

 

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"The 5-axis in-body image stabilization can effectively compensate for camera shake with approximately 8 stops of stabilization* with use of certain non-stabilized, and optically image stabilized lenses"

 

It is not clearly defined which "certain" lenses they are talking about.  What is clear is that it does not work with all lenses.  Judging from the complaints from users about the IBIS menu option not appearing with some lenses, all of which use the EF/RF adapter, leads me to my conclusion.  

 

That, and a Rudy Winston's video clip that I can no longer find, going back to when the camera was first released.  He had pointed that IBIS enters a degraded mode with EF lenses using the adapter.  Maybe that has been corrected with a firmware update, or maybe it has not.  It would not surprise me to learn that IBIS is unavailable to 3rd party EF mount lenses.

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I got the camera profiles for the R6 from colorfidelity and they're definitely an improvement, but still not great. A couple of the profiles look super weird, like having too much red in the highlight and midtones and then too much green in the shadows, and there is a distinct line between them with no transition. But the neutral and fine detail profiles look okay-ish. Nothing close to what I get from my R, though. 

 

I'll check out DxO. I assume you mean DxO Photo Lab? I see it's on sale right now at an awesome price. If that's what you mean, I'll grab the trial and check it out.

That's certainly fair. I've never used the Sigma 85mm Art. But you might want to take a look on Flickr and search for images shot with with the 105mm f/1.4 and the 135 f/1.8. They are superb. The only time I've gotten a lack of contrast is with the 105 when I'm outdoors and forget the lens hood. 

Canonoli
Enthusiast

Actually, Adobe has no profiles for the Canon Eos R5 or R6
If you read a bit, on the Canon Eos R they new that the sensor was the same as the 5D IV so the used that profile for the EOS R.

To get those nice rich tones and color back you need to purchase the profiles from ColorFidelity.com they are $15 and the color will be like it was before. Canon does not supply Adobe with profiles and profiles need to be created.

I'm playing around with DxO Photo Lab now. It looks really good! The SOOC image looks super weird, like oddball colors and blacks way to dark. But with some adjustments, the result looks pretty great. Far better than what I was getting from Lr. Now if I can figure out how to jump out of this to do retouching in Photoshop and then back to DxO to finalize, that would be awesome.

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What about it?

From someone coming from a pro body the 1Dx Mark II, I think that the R5 is a great camera.

If you want to see the images with better skin tones than I suggest you look into purchasing the profile I suggested above.

But go ahead and try as many trial programs as you can, or you can create your own profiles if your good enought to understand the process. 🙂

And you can always use the software that Canon supplies, if you don't like the results of other software.

 

 


@Canonoli wrote:

What about it?

From someone coming from a pro body the 1Dx Mark II, I think that the R5 is a great camera.

If you want to see the images with better skin tones than I suggest you look into purchasing the profile I suggested above.

But go ahead and try as many trial programs as you can, or you can create your own profiles if your good enought to understand the process. 🙂

And you can always use the software that Canon supplies, if you don't like the results of other software.

 

 


As I mentioned, I did try the colorfidelity profiles and they weren't very good. The neutral and fine detail profiles were okay, but the other three had obvious problems and were not usable. That is why I'm trying DxO Photolab, since it already supports the R5 and R6 and, so far, has clearly better skin tones. However, I think I'll give the colorfidelity profiles another shot because Photolab is not really good for portraits. It would be fantastic for landscape photographers, though, which seems to be what they've designed their product for. I shoot almost entirely portraits, so I need good skin tones.


@johninbigd wrote:

@Canonoli wrote:

What about it?

From someone coming from a pro body the 1Dx Mark II, I think that the R5 is a great camera.

If you want to see the images with better skin tones than I suggest you look into purchasing the profile I suggested above.

But go ahead and try as many trial programs as you can, or you can create your own profiles if your good enought to understand the process. 🙂

And you can always use the software that Canon supplies, if you don't like the results of other software.

 

 


As I mentioned, I did try the colorfidelity profiles and they weren't very good. The neutral and fine detail profiles were okay, but the other three had obvious problems and were not usable. That is why I'm trying DxO Photolab, since it already supports the R5 and R6 and, so far, has clearly better skin tones. However, I think I'll give the colorfidelity profiles another shot because Photolab is not really good for portraits. It would be fantastic for landscape photographers, though, which seems to be what they've designed their product for. I shoot almost entirely portraits, so I need good skin tones.


You can build your own color profiles with an X-Rite ColorChecker.  It's automated.  Just take a photo of the color chart.  It's just like doing AFMA on a lens.  Now, you're calibrating your image sensor against a standard color chart.

 

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All of my cameras have nearly identical colors at ISO 100.  As ISO increases you can begin to see very small diffrences, but most of the differences are noise, not color saturation or contrast.

 

can select a camera profile.  Instead of "Adobe Standard" or some other Adobe profile, I see the name of my camera and select that.  In fact, it gets automaticlly selected when the RAW files are imported.

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"Enjoying photography since 1972."

Do you have Photolab 3 or 4? Photolab 4 seems massively improved over v3. Although I have to admit I bought 3 when it came out and gave up on it quickly, too slow and Deep Prime was worse not better. v4 runs faster and produces results very close to what DPP does. 

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