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by muditmudit 1459 days ago
I bought a Canon R6 last year, and am very happy with it. In the past, I have owned Sony Alpha A7M3, Canon Rebel XTi, Nikon D600, Nikon D7100, and Pentax K5. Canon R6 is definitely the one I am happiest with.

- All my Canon EF lenses work fine with an adapter. There is no loss of light or functionality. I bought the adapter that has a control ring[1], and this gives me an additional dial of adjustment on the lens.

- This works as a webcam on both my Windows 11 and MacOS machines using Canon EOS Webcam Utility[2]. In meetings, I often get complimented on my video, and get asked about my setup.

- Image quality is top-notch, though this is somewhat of a personal perference.

- I have an ancient version of Adobe Lightroom (v4) that I refuse to upgrade, since it has a perpetual, offline, license. I use the free Adobe Digital Negative Converter[3] to convert Canon's RAW files (CRAW) to DNG format.

- Video files contain a ton of details. I use DaVinvi Resolve to color grade, and have to use ffmgeg as an intermediate step to convert format. I am sure there is some setting in the camera I can change. However, I have scripted this process so much that this is essentially painless for me.

- The body is a bit larger that I would like in a mirrorless format. However, the ergonomics are the best I have come across. It has more dials and customizable buttons that I know what do with.

- The camera has a built in intervalometer.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1433718-REG/canon_mou... [2] https://www.canon.de/cameras/eos-webcam-utility/ [3] https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter...

1 comments

Thank you for all the details! A couple questions:

- Do you get audio when using it as a webcam? That's been the problem for me, and I remember forum posts saying there's no audio signal in the HDMI output.

- I tried using DNG, but IIRC the resulting images were huge, at least twice the size of the original RAW. What sort of sizes are you seeing?