Canon 6d vs 24-70mm mark ii

[jdramirez]

Sounds like a consensus.

I'd maybe suggest treading water for a while and see if a 6d mkii is on the horizon.

Didn't the 6d come out better the 5d mkiii? And the 5d mkiv is rumored to come out in 2015..., So maybe they sneak a 6d out beforehand...

 

[Nine-IX]

It sounds like a consensus on the FF 6D. I've always leaned toward putting money into glass, but I love the idea of higher IQ and the creative possibilities with the 6D.

I also just saw that the 6D can Microfocus adjust on both the wide and tele end of the lens. the 7D doesn't allow that, so that may resolve most, if not all, of my focus issues on the 24-70mk1

I've been trolling canonrumors for years before finally signing in to the forums. Thanks for the help!

 

[Nine-IX]

I'd maybe suggest treading water for a while and see if a 6d mkii is on the horizon.

Didn't the 6d come out better the 5d mkiii? And the 5d mkiv is rumored to come out in 2015..., So maybe they sneak a 6d out beforehand...

Now you're just being cruel

 

[tron]

I'd maybe suggest treading water for a while and see if a 6d mkii is on the horizon.

Didn't the 6d come out better the 5d mkiii? And the 5d mkiv is rumored to come out in 2015..., So maybe they sneak a 6d out beforehand...

Now you're just being cruel

6D came after 5DMkIII. So 6DMkII may come after 5DMkIV. Now the 5DMkIV has not even been rumored yet. Good luck waiting

 

[Marsu42]

I also just saw that the 6D can Microfocus adjust on both the wide and tele end of the lens. the 7D doesn't allow that, so that may resolve most, if not all, of my focus issues on the 24-70mk1

Might be if your lens is really dodgy, but in my experience afma misses are much more likely to be generated by varying subject distance... Sigma now has an option to account for that in their lenses, while Canon (only) has the wide/long end system that doesn't make any difference at least on my zooms.

 

[JohanCruyff]

The depth of field of a FF sensor &F/4 combo is shallower than the DOF of a APSC Sensor&F/2.8.
A FF&F/4 combo gathers more light than a Crop&F/2.8.

So maybe you shoud consider the 6d + 24-70 F/4 IS L combo.

 

[danjwark]

As a current 6D owner also having moved from crop (no regrets), I would suggest you may end up using your 70-200 more for portraits anyway as it's focal length on FF feels much better than on crop. It actually feels a bit long on crop which makes it tougher to use for portraits. My vote is to go the 6D route as you may just find it with the 70-200 is a killer combination.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I'd fix your lens and get a 6D. The old 24-70mm MK II are well known to have broken guides that can jam or cause inaccurate focusing. You can buy them from Canon and replace them yourself, but its best to have Canon do a complete checkup on the lens.

 

[sdsr]

For the reasons given by others already, I would go with the 6D too; superb image quality and you will likely appreciate the high ISO performance. What's more, all your lenses will suddenly provide a much much wider angle of view, providing significantly different ways of looking at the world - it's rather like replacing everything at once. And since you already have 17-40 and 70-200, you might want to consider selling both your 7D and your 24-70 (much of whose angle of view on your 7D will be covered by your 70-200 on the 6D) and buying a decent prime or two to fill in the gap and/or allow you to play around with even shallower focus (if that's of any interest to you) - a fast 50mm, or an 85mm portrait lens, say. Or you may decide that the gap doesn't need filling....

 

[Nine-IX]

For the reasons given by others already, I would go with the 6D too; superb image quality and you will likely appreciate the high ISO performance. What's more, all your lenses will suddenly provide a much much wider angle of view, providing significantly different ways of looking at the world - it's rather like replacing everything at once. And since you already have 17-40 and 70-200, you might want to consider selling both your 7D and your 24-70 (much of whose angle of view on your 7D will be covered by your 70-200 on the 6D) and buying a decent prime or two to fill in the gap and/or allow you to play around with even shallower focus (if that's of any interest to you) - a fast 50mm, or an 85mm portrait lens, say. Or you may decide that the gap doesn't need filling....

now that is a very interesting idea. I have a 50mm f1.8, but it leaves much to be desired. Moving up to the F/1.2 from the 24-70mm would probably cost me ~$400. hmmmmm

 

[Marsu42]

now that is a very interesting idea. I have a 50mm f1.8, but it leaves much to be desired. Moving up to the F/1.2 from the 24-70mm would probably cost me ~$400. hmmmmm

Note that digital cameras cannot make full use of very fast f1.2 lenses as part of the light comes from the wrong directions (film was able to capture all of it) - so it's mostly for extreme thin dof and bokeh. And, I cannot help mentioning it, don't rely on the 6d af with these lenses - I've read from people upgrading to the 5d3 because the little brother simply cannot manage.

 

[NancyP]

One good thing about the 6D is that you can swap out the existing stock AF screen for the extra-fine Eg-S screen (a $38.00 part and a DIY 5 minute effort) - focusing a manual focus f/1.2 lens at f/1.2 on the stock screen is a beeitch, the Eg-S is an improvement. I am shooting a bunch of back-of-the-closet all-manual film lenses on the 6D, with adapter - AIS Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 and AIS Nikkor 102mm f/2.5 among them.

 

[ecka]

For the reasons given by others already, I would go with the 6D too; superb image quality and you will likely appreciate the high ISO performance. What's more, all your lenses will suddenly provide a much much wider angle of view, providing significantly different ways of looking at the world - it's rather like replacing everything at once. And since you already have 17-40 and 70-200, you might want to consider selling both your 7D and your 24-70 (much of whose angle of view on your 7D will be covered by your 70-200 on the 6D) and buying a decent prime or two to fill in the gap and/or allow you to play around with even shallower focus (if that's of any interest to you) - a fast 50mm, or an 85mm portrait lens, say. Or you may decide that the gap doesn't need filling....

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