Man of Honour
Hello,
I'm going on a photography course to Skye in late December/early November.
I currently have a 600D, and my landscape lens of choice is a Tokina 11-16. I've had some pretty decent results with it.
Back in February when lensesforhire had a 50% sale, I hired a 6D and an 16-35 F4 L lens (and some other stuff), but i got some great results with that combination, sharpness wise...
As for filters I have a big/little stopper and some 100mm kood grads. They have a bit of a blue tint to them, but nothing that can't be fixed a bit with LR.
I would like to do skye justice, so I'm wondering if I should hire a camera/lens for that week at 100% prices, which works out at about £250. Which... i guess is a lot... but I might get some awesome images with them, so perhaps worth it.
Or just bite the bullet and sell my 600D with all its lenses and get a 6D with say the 16-35 and 24-105, then replace my 70-300 if/when i can afford it.
Things that annoy me about the 600D:
1) Autofocus is pretty awful - 9 point I think, none of which are cross type
2) ISO performance - anything over 400 is soooo noisy
3) Image quality is never that great, compared to better stuff... but then I did only buy it as an entry into DSLR land and I've learned a lot with it.
Things that annoy me about the 6D option
1) Autofocus is still pretty limited. only one cross type point and does it have only 11 points total? (I could be wrong here)
2) No flippy out screen - I really like this on the 600D.
3) I will have only one or two lenses. I currently have a 11-16, 18-35, 50, 70-300 with the 600.
4) The display for how long the shutter's open in bulb mode is only on the top LCD - not on the rear LED like it is on the 600. Not a massive gripe, though.
Or, do I ditch Canon completely and get a Nikon D810 - the DR of this seems to be amazing - it's incredibly what detail you can rescue from shadows. I've only had a play with one raw file from a D810 and it absolutely pees all over even what the 6D can achieve.
I know nothing about Nikon lenses though...
I mostly shoot landscapes, at the moment... because the 600D in my hands seems to be not terribly good for anything that moves.
I'm going on a photography course to Skye in late December/early November.
I currently have a 600D, and my landscape lens of choice is a Tokina 11-16. I've had some pretty decent results with it.
Back in February when lensesforhire had a 50% sale, I hired a 6D and an 16-35 F4 L lens (and some other stuff), but i got some great results with that combination, sharpness wise...
As for filters I have a big/little stopper and some 100mm kood grads. They have a bit of a blue tint to them, but nothing that can't be fixed a bit with LR.
I would like to do skye justice, so I'm wondering if I should hire a camera/lens for that week at 100% prices, which works out at about £250. Which... i guess is a lot... but I might get some awesome images with them, so perhaps worth it.
Or just bite the bullet and sell my 600D with all its lenses and get a 6D with say the 16-35 and 24-105, then replace my 70-300 if/when i can afford it.
Things that annoy me about the 600D:
1) Autofocus is pretty awful - 9 point I think, none of which are cross type
2) ISO performance - anything over 400 is soooo noisy
3) Image quality is never that great, compared to better stuff... but then I did only buy it as an entry into DSLR land and I've learned a lot with it.
Things that annoy me about the 6D option
1) Autofocus is still pretty limited. only one cross type point and does it have only 11 points total? (I could be wrong here)
2) No flippy out screen - I really like this on the 600D.
3) I will have only one or two lenses. I currently have a 11-16, 18-35, 50, 70-300 with the 600.
4) The display for how long the shutter's open in bulb mode is only on the top LCD - not on the rear LED like it is on the 600. Not a massive gripe, though.
Or, do I ditch Canon completely and get a Nikon D810 - the DR of this seems to be amazing - it's incredibly what detail you can rescue from shadows. I've only had a play with one raw file from a D810 and it absolutely pees all over even what the 6D can achieve.
I know nothing about Nikon lenses though...
I mostly shoot landscapes, at the moment... because the 600D in my hands seems to be not terribly good for anything that moves.
