Anyone get R6 Mark3 in USA

[jimim]

I’m still getting used to just a completely different experience than I’m used to. There are buttons everywhere! lol. I have 2 different back focusing setup to my liking. My biggest problem right now is trying to understand all the af settings. Right now my one back focusing setup is a whole screen for eye detection if in a hurry. The other back focusing setup is with the expanded area. I really don’t want to use single point anymore. I feel like in 2025 I shouldn’t have to. I’m just trying to get used to the camera actually sticking and me not having to refocus like I used to. It’s a me thing. Just a totally different learning curve going on.

I also think I’m buying the rf70-200 2.8 tonight. I have been going back and forth. I’m just going to do it and figure it out. Cause there is never going to be a good time in my life over the next 6 years and I really want it for my kids while they are playing sports not after they are done and I don’t need it as much. I’m just going to do it. Ok I said it. Just do it.

It’s like ripping a bandaide off.

The camera is pretty sweet though coming from 15 plus year old tech.

 

[creative1]

Its the IBIS, when powered off there's nothing holding the sensor still. It's nothing to worry about. Will disappear as soon as you power on the camera.

Thanks. I was freaking out!

 

[becceric]

I’m still getting used to just a completely different experience than I’m used to. There are buttons everywhere! lol. I have 2 different back focusing setup to my liking. My biggest problem right now is trying to understand all the af settings. Right now my one back focusing setup is a whole screen for eye detection if in a hurry. The other back focusing setup is with the expanded area. I really don’t want to use single point anymore. I feel like in 2025 I shouldn’t have to. I’m just trying to get used to the camera actually sticking and me not having to refocus like I used to. It’s a me thing. Just a totally different learning curve going on.

I also think I’m buying the rf70-200 2.8 tonight. I have been going back and forth. I’m just going to do it and figure it out. Cause there is never going to be a good time in my life over the next 6 years and I really want it for my kids while they are playing sports not after they are done and I don’t need it as much. I’m just going to do it. Ok I said it. Just do it.

It’s like ripping a bandaide off.

The camera is pretty sweet though coming from 15 plus year old tech.

Yep! Be like Nike. Just do it. I've appreciated all of the improved/missing lenses I've purchased. Plus you've got growing reasons to enjoy it now.

 

[Kiton]

I’m still getting used to just a completely different experience than I’m used to. There are buttons everywhere! lol. I have 2 different back focusing setup to my liking. My biggest problem right now is trying to understand all the af settings. Right now my one back focusing setup is a whole screen for eye detection if in a hurry. The other back focusing setup is with the expanded area. I really don’t want to use single point anymore. I feel like in 2025 I shouldn’t have to. I’m just trying to get used to the camera actually sticking and me not having to refocus like I used to. It’s a me thing. Just a totally different learning curve going on.

I also think I’m buying the rf70-200 2.8 tonight. I have been going back and forth. I’m just going to do it and figure it out. Cause there is never going to be a good time in my life over the next 6 years and I really want it for my kids while they are playing sports not after they are done and I don’t need it as much. I’m just going to do it. Ok I said it. Just do it.

It’s like ripping a bandaide off.

The camera is pretty sweet though coming from 15 plus year old tech.

Not sure what the cost dif is these days between the first version and the second version these days, but internal zooming ver 2 is so much better to use, if you can, grab that one! It is an amazing lens.

 

[Kiton]

Oh, I thought you were saying the old style batteries wouldn't fully power and run your new camera. I must have misinterpreted that to mean the battery remaining percentage doesn't read out. You just get bars.

I remember every Canon I've had just showing bars. I look now and then. If it's low, I swap batteries. Easy. And I ain't no engineer either. I totally missed the part where you were talking about the battery meter. You are right. That's a choice. A choice Canon didn't make to your liking. So, crippled.

Back when I shot fashion shows, I'd get 3,000 out of two batteries on. 5D Mark III. Never worried how Canons meter displayed. Sure af doesn't cripple a camera.

blah blah.....what ever! you clearly do not understand the long history of the term "cripple hammer".

I just dumped my 4th body, the spare R5 body, and it had 350,000 clicks on it. The spare!

Battery indications mean something to some of us.

bye!

 

[Dpcj2]

Was supposed to be delivered today. Got a message from fedex saying I would need to be home to sign. Sat at home all day then got a message that they “are working to determine a delivery date.” It looks like the package made it halfway then no further tracking for over a day and a half. Was pretty excited so kind of a letdown. Come on Canon and FedEx….do better.

 

[Kiton]

Jim, make sure you have some spare batteries, this camera seems to be a power pig. Or the 6P is the lessor brother of the 6H, or a little of both.

I shot a red carpet with the 6m2, 1200 images over 3 hours with the flash trigger and had 20% left with a single battery.
Shot 150 frames with the 6m3 and it used most of 2 batteries in the grip just being powered on for the 3 hours of the event.

2 days ago I shot a concert and at 6400 iso, the 6m3 performed very, very well.
Shooting NHL next week, that will be the first real test of the auto focus if I get a downstairs window, upstairs is a useless gauge of AF.

 

[jamtra]

Jim, make sure you have some spare batteries, this camera seems to be a power pig. Or the 6P is the lessor brother of the 6H, or a little of both.

I shot a red carpet with the 6m2, 1200 images over 3 hours with the flash trigger and had 20% left with a single battery.
Shot 150 frames with the 6m3 and it used most of 2 batteries in the grip just being powered on for the 3 hours of the event.

2 days ago I shot a concert and at 6400 iso, the 6m3 performed very, very well.
Shooting NHL next week, that will be the first real test of the auto focus if I get a downstairs window, upstairs is a useless gauge of AF.

I just did a wrestling meet and shot over 7500 pictures in 2 hours with r6 mark3. Used just about half of one battery. No flash.

 

[jimim]

Hey guys. I noticed my battery went down pretty fast but I was really digging with menus and settings. I think I’m going to have to buy a new flash. My old flash is just too hot and miss on the shoe.

I chickened out with the lens again. I just have in the back of my head my trailer for the boat needed some work in spring. They don’t make axles like they used to. My wrangler is going on 6 years now and 100k so I got to do spark plugs, belt and all the fluids in a month or so. I’m a hobbiest so I’m still gun shy. May latest cause my daughter will be back outside training 6 days a week for tennis. We are inside for winter and hot and miss outside of lessons and I don’t like to bother them during her lessons.

Bla bla bla. I know.

All I know is having updated auto focus and this whole sticking to your focus point is nuts. I sound like I’m 100years old and just saw my first cell phone. lol

 

[David the street guy]

I just received mine a few minutes ago. It is still a brick until I get some memory cards, but there is one thing I noticed that is pretty concerning to me, and I am not sure if this is normal, but it feels like something is rattling when I hold the camera. Is this normal? Not that this should matter, but I have not even powered up the camera.

Don’t you have some SD cards lying around? The camera doesn’t absolutely need CFexpress to get started…

 

[Kiton]

Hey guys. I noticed my battery went down pretty fast but I was really digging with menus and settings. I think I’m going to have to buy a new flash. My old flash is just too hot and miss on the shoe.

I chickened out with the lens again. I just have in the back of my head my trailer for the boat needed some work in spring. They don’t make axles like they used to. My wrangler is going on 6 years now and 100k so I got to do spark plugs, belt and all the fluids in a month or so. I’m a hobbiest so I’m still gun shy. May latest cause my daughter will be back outside training 6 days a week for tennis. We are inside for winter and hot and miss outside of lessons and I don’t like to bother them during her lessons.

Bla bla bla. I know.

All I know is having updated auto focus and this whole sticking to your focus point is nuts. I sound like I’m 100years old and just saw my first cell phone. lol

So far, I think battery power will be the achille's heel of this camera. And with the camera not giving a percent pf battery remaining read out, I bet there will be a lot of batteries crashing out at a bad time. I love the files with the camera.....but! Time will tell.

 

[Buylongterm]

Received mine on launch day. Thank you Adorama. Coming from a 5D Mark III, I have a lot to learn. I also got the RF 24-70 2.8L and the RF 100 2.8L as well. I am trying my best to hold off on the RF 70-200 2.8L Z!!!! Thank God the weather in Chicago is horrible. I want and need this lens. But I have to slow down. Bought my first Macbook Pro along with every other accessory. 1TB CFExpress B, 4tb Sandisk extreme pro external HD, cases, high speed cables, additional batteries, etc.... After being away from shooting for close to 5 years, I now remember how expensive and addicting this hobby is. Congrats to all R6 Mark III owners.

 

[Kiton]

Received mine on launch day. Thank you Adorama. Coming from a 5D Mark III, I have a lot to learn. I also got the RF 24-70 2.8L and the RF 100 2.8L as well. I am trying my best to hold off on the RF 70-200 2.8L Z!!!! Thank God the weather in Chicago is horrible. I want and need this lens. But I have to slow down. Bought my first Macbook Pro along with every other accessory. 1TB CFExpress B, 4tb Sandisk extreme pro external HD, cases, high speed cables, additional batteries, etc.... After being away from shooting for close to 5 years, I now remember how expensive and addicting this hobby is. Congrats to all R6 Mark III owners.

Cocaine is cheap! Photography is an expensive habit!
The 70-200 Z is an absolutely beautiful lens that is superbly well balanced in the hand.

 

[Buylongterm]

Cocaine is cheap! Photography is an expensive habit!
The 70-200 Z is an absolutely beautiful lens that is superbly well balanced in the hand.

That it is! LOL. I broke down (no will power) and bought it! I got it for 2900.00, so I convinced myself it was a deal that I couldn't refuse.

 

[Kiton]

That it is! LOL. I broke down (no will power) and bought it! I got it for 2900.00, so I convinced myself it was a deal that I couldn't refuse.

I complain bitterly about the stupid little things Canon gets wrong, that they should not.
But, the 24-105 2.8 and the 70-200 Z are jewels. You will not regret it.

 

[Michael Clark]

Jim, make sure you have some spare batteries, this camera seems to be a power pig. Or the 6P is the lessor brother of the 6H, or a little of both.

I shot a red carpet with the 6m2, 1200 images over 3 hours with the flash trigger and had 20% left with a single battery.
Shot 150 frames with the 6m3 and it used most of 2 batteries in the grip just being powered on for the 3 hours of the event.

2 days ago I shot a concert and at 6400 iso, the 6m3 performed very, very well.
Shooting NHL next week, that will be the first real test of the auto focus if I get a downstairs window, upstairs is a useless gauge of AF.

It's been my experience that some new Li-Ion batteries need to go through 2-3 charging cycles before they reach actual full capacity. Even though they say they are fully charged, after the first charge they're not actually up to rated capacity after sitting dormant for a while. Where you shooting with brand new batteries? What is the date stamped on them?

Or older batteries? The capacities also go down with time and an increasing number of recharge cycles. Batteries that I got 2,000+ frames out of when new do good to get 1,000 frames 4-5 years later.

 

[Michael Clark]

Hey guys. I noticed my battery went down pretty fast but I was really digging with menus and settings. I think I’m going to have to buy a new flash. My old flash is just too hot and miss on the shoe.

I chickened out with the lens again. I just have in the back of my head my trailer for the boat needed some work in spring. They don’t make axles like they used to. My wrangler is going on 6 years now and 100k so I got to do spark plugs, belt and all the fluids in a month or so. I’m a hobbiest so I’m still gun shy. May latest cause my daughter will be back outside training 6 days a week for tennis. We are inside for winter and hot and miss outside of lessons and I don’t like to bother them during her lessons.

Bla bla bla. I know.

All I know is having updated auto focus and this whole sticking to your focus point is nuts. I sound like I’m 100years old and just saw my first cell phone. lol

What kind of flash is your old one? You may just need the Multi-Function Shoe Adapter AD-E1. It allows you to fit older style hot shoe accessories onto the new Multi-Function hot shoe.

 

[Michael Clark]

So far, I think battery power will be the achille's heel of this camera. And with the camera not giving a percent pf battery remaining read out, I bet there will be a lot of batteries crashing out at a bad time. I love the files with the camera.....but! Time will tell.

Give it a few weeks. The 3rd party quality battery makers will have cracked the code and be selling batteries that the camera will "see" as genuine Canon OEM. I'm not talking about crappy $5 batteries on eBay (where "genuine" Canon batteries are more likely to be counterfeit than genuine). I'm talking about the better ones sold by places like B&H that are still only 1/3 to 1/2 the price of Canon batteries.

 

[Ozarker]

I just did a wrestling meet and shot over 7500 pictures in 2 hours with r6 mark3. Used just about half of one battery. No flash.

Can you tell me what percentage half a battery is? It's fkg difficult to figger out. Does half empty vs half full vary the percentage? And is that percentage remaining? Or percentage gone?

(Not poking fun at you, my friend. Not at all. Bars vs. percentage confuse some. Congratulations on a wonderful camera, cripple hammer free.)

The strap! That's the cripple hammer.

 

[Kiton]

Give it a few weeks. The 3rd party quality battery makers will have cracked the code and be selling batteries that the camera will "see" as genuine Canon OEM. I'm not talking about crappy $5 batteries on eBay (where "genuine" Canon batteries are more likely to be counterfeit than genuine). I'm talking about the better ones sold by places like B&H that are still only 1/3 to 1/2 the price of Canon batteries.

Hi Michael,

All the older batteries are in the R5 and R6mk2, for now I have I have 2 of the new batteries in a battery grip on the 6mk3, but the battery grip restricts image transfer to the phone! But the 2 batteries is a huge plus. I never felt the need with the 6.2

I am shooting 2 NHL games this week, normally I would use the R3 for that, but I want to try out the 6.3 and see how it does.
I will keep the 3 between my feet just in case, but I think it will be fine.