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Taken on Canon R6MII and Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS LMII
Finally got some proper time with the Canon R6MII and suffice to say - I like it!!
First up the AF is bonkers good. Central is fast and reliable and the animal eye detect is scary good! At first the eye detect was something I'd turned off as I found the little boxes telling me where it thought the focus would be, were annoying if I was just using central, however in the end I got used to it and honestly it was informative to see in different situations. Setting up my backbutton AF to have central AF on one button and Eye detect on the other meant swapping between the two was fast and easy. In the end I was using animal eye-detect most of the day and swapping in regular whenever it got confused or there were too many subjects in a scene. I can certainly see why a duel AF backbutton setup is popular with people. I've long used one backbutton and now having access to regular and eye detect is a boon.
Battery life on 2 batteries was good and 32GB lasted decently well - BUT I wasn't shooting non-stop. There was plenty of just walking around looking at stalls and other things. So I know I need at least 2 more batteries and a lot more memory.
I was also in 1.6 crop mode for most of the day without realising it. It worked well as most of the scenes were fairly far off and the image quality on 1.6 crop mode is solid. However it also means I got more shots from the day than if I'd been in fullframe so that's another notch in the "get more GB!" arrow.
I did mess with shifting from electronic 1st curtain to mechanical and honestly I can't tell which was which in the shots after for this kind of photography.
In the end I wound up adding eye detect mode, crop mode and shutter mode to my custom menu for quick access rather than diving into the myriad of menus as I can see those being variables I will semi-regularly want to be able to change.
Only thing I'm not used to is the "pause" images when looking through the viewfinder when taking a burst of shots. That's still something that isn't as comfortable as the old mirror slapping up and down on a mirrored camera.
Also I wish Canon would release a firmwire update that lets me set the camera to disable the LCD image rendering. Even if it just turns off the screen and doesn't actually stop the sensor reading the data (likely because its faster than constantly turning it on and off if flitting to and from the viewfinder position.