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I’d already been thinking about purchasing a Canon 6D for months, and this is the photograph that convinced me that it would be a worthwhile upgrade. They say having the full-frame sensor gets you about an extra half stop of light sensitivity, but I didn’t think that was enough to keep the 5D Mk2 on my list. I could get a nicer, newer crop sensor Canon 60D for less than half the price of the 5D Mk2. I skipped the Canon 5D Mk2 because the low-light performance isn’t as good as either the 5D Mk3 or 6D. The Canon 6D sits about half-way between the price of the Canon 5D Mk2 and Mk3 on the used market. I am a fan of used camera gear, and the Canon 6D has a nice price point on the used market. I did a lot of research before settling on the Canon 6D. This was the biggest limitation of my old camera that I wanted to correct, and it is what led me towards the Canon 6D. With only the street-lights to illuminate my photos at ISO 1600, I couldn’t get a fast-enough shutter speed to prevent people’s arms from being blurry when they were walking by. I was using my Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens in downtown Plano one night at the Plano Art and Wine Walk. We recently upgraded my wife to a Canon 60D, so I’ve had a chance to compare photos! The Canon t4i, t5i and 60D are all reasonably priced cameras, and they can all push well past my old Rebel XSi’s ISO 1600 maximum. I could have upgraded to a much less expensive crop-sensor camera. As long as I could keep the ISO down at 400, I was good to go. I could take awesome photos around the house, in my home office, or at other less-than-ideally lit indoor locations. In fact, it did a fine job in almost every situation, especially after upgrading to my favorite lens-the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8. When I bought my old, used DSLR, my primary use case was shooting better photos for my blog, and that old Rebel XSi from 2008 was more than up to the task. I was hoping to hold out a little longer before buying a new DSLR body, but this seemed like a good excuse to finally pull the trigger. More and more often, I’d reach for my camera only to realize it wasn’t there. She’s been learning a lot, and she was borrowing my Rebel XSi to take pictures for our weekly photography contests. I’ve been buying all sorts of camera gear-mostly lenses-but I’ve been making sure everything I bought would work with a full-frame Canon DSLR-just in case!Ī few months ago, my wife started attending our Photography Club meetings at TheLab.ms. It was an excellent and inexpensive way to dip my toe into the waters of professional-grade digital photography, but I’ve known for a while that an upgrade was in my future. It was still a fine camera capable of taking excellent photographs, and it still is. By the time I bought that camera, it was already old, roughed up, and way out of date. It has been a year since I wrote about my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel XSi.
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