Review - Canon EOS 80D

[ajfotofilmagem]

PLEASE make the 6DII just like the 80D.

...except with a joystick for af selection.

The lack of joystick is one of the reasons I sold my 6D and have kept the 5DII. At this stage I'm not sure if I'll add a 5DIII / s / IV as I'm finding that due to the continual improvement of crop I'm now using the FF camera as I used to use (film) MF, and the crop as I used to use 35 mm.

Speak low. ???
Otherwise the supporters of the "full frame is best for everyone," will want to burn you alive at the stake. :-X

Blasphemy!

 

[IglooEater]

Awesome review! I love reading all of Dustin's reviews. They seem to be the most practical reviews I've seen. I was thinking about half way through "Man, if only all of this could be in a 6D2!".

+1 +1 (and no video castration like the 6D line-skipping b*S___)

And for the love of everything the swifel Screen please. Its the biggest loss when coming from a 60D. Its robust, usefull far beyond a gimmick and switched around an awesome display protection.

My brother is a real estate photographer, and a flippy screen is one of his number 1 priorities on a camera. In his line, a lot of shots are taken from the extreme inside of a corner so it is physically impossible to look through the viewfinder. It's possible to guess at the composition through trial error, but a flip screen saves him tonnes of time, and by extension, earns him money, especially since he does 9 shot sequences for HDR. No, his pics don't look like the cheesy HDR we're used to.

 

[wjk]

I so disagree, not sure what the fuzz is about,had it for two days, laughed and gave it back .. this camera has a horrible autofocus, way worse than my 5d3 .. the movie focus so so ..it does everything and everything mediocre ... it is a beginner camera for everything that is slow moving .. yes it will make smart phone shooters happy, but photographers .. never ..

Did you try using it outside the plastic bag that it is packaged in?

No I left it in the box while testing .. not worth the effort ... .. it is a cheap camera that does work cheap imho, and my friends have the same experience the 7d2 and 5d3 are both far superior, the
ergonomics are worse and with fast actions sports it missed about 75% of the focus, while the 7d2 missed 20% ..

 

[haggie]

wjk wrote "... and with fast actions sports it missed about 75% of the focus, while the 7d2 missed 20% .. ".

That sounds bad, could you elaborate on that with more details about the situations where this happened, and perhaps an example?

 

[noidea]

I'm going from a 20D to the 80D. Question: should I purchase the lens that comes with the camera (I've got similar so don't really need it) or just go for the body only? tia

 

[ikkehans]

I like the 80D... A lot...

However I cannot get my head around it that I cannot take stills while recording a video.

I have quite some experience with the 80D's older siblings, the 60D and 70D. With those older cameras it was possible to take a photo, while you were recording video.

However to my (unpleasant) surprise that is not the case with my 80D... no matter how often or hard I press the release button... No Photo..

Is this a problem known to any of you? And would there be a solution for this??? I have checked the custom menu's but cannot find any proper solution.

Of course i'm aware of the fact that when taking a photo, your video hiccups for a few moments, but I take that for granted if I really need/want that shot/moment on a high res still instead of only HD format.

So if any of you have a solution that would be great. (Or if any of you has connections in Canon, so they can include it in a firmware update, then that is fine too of course!)

 

[ajfotofilmagem]

I'm going from a 20D to the 80D. Question: should I purchase the lens that comes with the camera (I've got similar so don't really need it) or just go for the body only? tia

Canon 80D is sold in kit lens with 18-55 STM, or 18-135 USM. Both are great lenses in its category.

18-135mm USM has far superior image quality than the old 17-85mm, but not as good as the 15-85mm. The new focus motor Nano Ultrasonic in the 18-135 is extremely fast and quiet.

18-55mm STM has image quality a little better than older models, but the AF is much faster and super quiet.

 

[sunnyVan]

My 80d focuses just as fast and accurate as my 5dmk3.

wjk wrote "... and with fast actions sports it missed about 75% of the focus, while the 7d2 missed 20% .. ".

That sounds bad, could you elaborate on that with more details about the situations where this happened, and perhaps an example?