How To SETUP The CANON R6 II For WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY
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really inspired by the way you explained everything and also by your shots. Ive been shooting for years and i learned some great new stuff from you today. Thank you!
Thanks man, I appreciate that, and I'm glad the video helped!
R6, in the Face Tracking AF method (not the Spot AF), clicking the Joystick once will create a spot area in the center of the EVF. That spot area will be considered as Face and be automatically tracked. So if the camera loses focus, you just quickly point the target to the center of the EVF and push the Joystick once, a spot will appear there and start tracking automatically. Then you push and hold the Eye AF button (*, in your customization) to obtain Eye AF. If you click the Joystick one more time, the Face select will be turned off.
From one Veteran to another Veteran, I want to thank you bro! Just setup my R6ii as yours is for my wildlife photography. Cheers from Wisconsin! Hope your shoulder is better soon!
Hey thanks man, I really appreciate that, and I hope the video helped!
Thank you very much Brent for putting out this video for the R6MII. I truly appreciate that. I've been testing different settings and hopefully I get it set the way I like it. I hope you get your shoulder taken care of very soon.
Get well soon brother. I understand the struggle with the VA. I got many heart and lung issues and dealing with them is almost as bad as my conditions. Hopefully your regional Medical Center is better than mine. Cheers.
Thanks Brent, hopefully your shoulder is getting better soon.
Another great video Brent 📸 wishing you a quick recovery 🙏👍🏽
Thanks Brent, this really helps me in exploring the right settings on my R6MrkII
That's awesome, I'm so glad it helped!
Thanks so much for making this video! I hope your shoulder gets fixed soon!
Thanks Brent. Just what I needed. I get my R6 mkll tomorrow and will try these settings. By the time I get get back to Durango I should be a pro. Good luck with the shoulder.
Get well soon my friend. Regards from India.
Thanks for this video. I too recently bought the R6MK2. My settings are almost the same except I use full area focus instead of spot focus. But the best setting was the crop and full frame DOP button. I needed that and was trying to figure it out. I recently went for some Pallid Harrier pictures. The bird was at a certain distance away and though I got the focus and sharpness correctly, I was missing the reach. I dont know with 9 mp at 1.6x whether the file size will remain the same, but atleast the photo will look bigger. Going to try this out during my regular weekend practice recce. Thanks a lot. And a Happy New Year to you. May your subscribers cross 100k this year.
Unlike the original R6, the Mark II allows 3 custom modes for video as well as stills. Do you use more than one setting for either stills or video? If so, do you vary between your various Canon bodies? The lack of custom video functions is my biggest gripe with the R6. So if I want slo-mo, for instance, I have to use my R5 for that.
Your settings work well.
Hey Brent, Have you ever considered building a calendar? Like landscape or wildlife? I know I would for sure place an order especially if some of the shots of the lightning 🌩 🤔
All the very best for your shoulder!
Wishing you well Brent. Take good care. Phil
My shoulder was fucked up VA helped Didn’t need surgery but lots of PT
Hey Brent, I hope your shoulder is better. I set up my R5 & R6 from your earlier video in 2021 in regards to back button focus. I do weddings and birds and have had much success. Now however, since both cameras were sent to CPS for cleaning and software upgrades last month, my back buttons won't stay programmed. I have had eye focus on the AF On button and Spot Focus on the * button. I noticed from this new video that you have them swapped. Can you shed any light on why my previous settings no longer work? In the meantime, I'll set both cameras up to match your current settings and give that a whirl. Thank you for making your videos. They are very helpful. Kathy
Thank you for the helpful video!
Great video, thanks
I’ll have this video bookmarked so that when I get the r6 Mkii, I can start with your suggestions and then possible modify them as I gain more experience shooting with it.
Do what the shoulder orthopedic specialists tells you to do, then rehab with serious intent.
I’ve been through it, it sucks, but it helps speed your recovery.
Excellent
Thank you. well done. good luck with the shoulder. I have made all of these changes, as they make sense. but I have a circle that shows up that was never there before. What have I done and does that matter?
Hope ur shoulder is good
Thanks Brent.You keep whole area tracking servo af on?? Anyway great video. And Prayers for healing on that shoulder my friend. 🙏
Sorry, I think I forgot to talk about that. I'm still undecided about it. I've shot with it both on and off but haven't come to a solid conclusion for my own preference so far.
@Brent Hall ok thanks Brent. I guess where I get confused sometimes is if I aquire reg spot focus on a bird and it starts moving along the ground a little smaller box goes to the eye and starts tracking. Now that sounds great but it's doing this without me engaging my actual eye tracking. I'm a little confused. I'm set up just the same as you. Other than I have whole area off. Thanks for all your help. 👍
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Yes, it’s a real pain which interferes with your control over the spot autofocus!
Duade has a nice work around. You can set the AF area button to a subject to detect toggle. Hence when you need complete control over your spot point, you press the toggle to subject to detect ‘NONE’
So for me
AF ON : spot
* button : toggle for subject to detect Auto/ None
# AF area button : EYE AF
Duade inverts the last two on my list
Hey Brent thanks for the video. I'm trying to set my back button focus similar to yours to allow for landscape as well as wildlife. I can't get my AF-ON button to go to Single Shot when I release it as opposed to staying in burst mode which it wants to continue doing. Maybe I misunderstood you in your explanation aroung 11:00. I did try some of the override settings in the INFO (Detail Set) when customizing the button but had no luck.
Thanks and get well soon. Very helpful just switched to canon yesterday from 30 years with Pentax - quite emotional!! - but so far loving how intuitive it is.
Do you think crop is better than getting a 1.4x teleconvertor? I guess it’s 6 and two threes!
It really depends on your mp comfort level. Using the TC will let you keep all your 24mp, whereas putting it in crop mode will take a good chunk of those out. On the downside, using a TC will take a stop out of your min aperture. You just have to pick which sacrifice you're willing to make. I've used crop mode on the R6II and personally I don't mind, because even in crop mode, I still have enough mp to cro pin a bit more and keep 2160 pixels on the long end, which will fit in a 4K timeline. So for me, that's fine. For others, maybe that's not enough resolution.
Canon needs more affordable telephoto lenses for wildlife photography. If it support Sigma and Tamron lenses I will consider Canon
Hello. Thank you for your video and explaining why you use the dual back button focus. I noticed that around section 6:26 you skip over the part where you turn off whole area auto focus tracking. I’m trying to understand what that function is for and why someone would leave it off or on. Thank you very much.
You know, I'm actually not sure if I've noticed any significant real world difference with it on or off, but I'll be honest too, I haven't actually done that much wildlife with this because I mostly use it for filming, and still primarily use my R5 for wildlife photos.
@@BrentHall I appreciate the replies. I just got my R6 Mark II a couple weeks ago coming from a 70D. It was pretty overwhelming at first but now that I’m getting used to it, I find it to be pretty amazing. I’m still trying to figure out what all the different focus boxes mean under different circumstances. I tried using the magnification option and it didn’t prove to be very useful for composition. I think the R6 Mark II will be fine for my purposes overall, I’m certainly not a professional more of a hobbyist, and the resolution seems to be good enough for me at this point. Keep up the good work, and thank you.
So in this case since you have the eye detection in auto, you're no longer assign the * button to enable the eye tracking?
Hope you're shoulder is better 🙏
I'd like to see your video settings for the mkii, please
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Are you the brother of Elon Musk? you look the same 😍😍..
I have R6 Mii and planning to get RF 100-500 this video helped me a lot thanks for sharing
Your laugh is identical to Elon Musk. Pretty cool! Thanks for the tip. Very simple and helpful. Wish you a quick recovery.
I currently use 5D mk4 with Tamron 150-600mm for bird photography. If I change to R6 mk2 with the same lens, will that make any sense?
Just visiting Bosque, or do you live in NM?
I live in NM.
Is there any advantage to using the 1.6 crop factor in camera instead of cropping later in post processing?
I guess the files are smaller so you can fit more on your SD card, but will that also allow you to take much more pictures in a burst before the buffer fills up? Or will it make it faster to empty the buffer to the SD card? Those reasons might convince me to give it a try. :)
But if it doesn't change the number of pics I can shoot in a burst before the buffer fills up or doesn't make it faster to empty the buffer then I'd probably prefer to shoot the full frame and crop later. This way I can choose what and how I crop.
The biggest advantage would only really be the better af tracking since the subject will take up more of the frame in camera. It helps for smaller and/or more distant subjects.
Hi Brent, Love your videos. I'm a total newbie to photography and have just purchased the Canon R6 Mark II. I have setup for Wildlife photography, Is there a different setup for landscape? At what ISO do you start to see noise?. Good luck with you're Shoulder.
Not for me personally. I use that setup for everything. The dual back button focus allows me to use the af-on button like a single point af, which is perfect for landscape stuff, and the star button allows me to use the eye af and tracking for everything else. That's just me though, there's a ton of different way to set these cameras up based on your own needs.
Thanks Brent, Much appreciated. Billy
AI or Servo for bird ? thanks you all
Not particularly easy to follow with all the side comments. Was hoping for something more professional.
Sorry man. I hope you find what you're looking for in a better video out there somewhere.
Have you done any time lapse photography with the R6 MkII yet?
And I was hoping to see some compassion for a person in pain. Do you have any idea how hard it is to concentrate when you're in a lot of pain? Thank you, Brent, for the help. I need it. I'm wishing you a full and complete recovery.