Not sure about Canon, but all other brands I’ve tried (Sony, Fuji, OM System) still allow focus peaking with manual lenses.
I’m not a huge fan of focus peaking, so I often just zoom in and then manually adjust focus. I would imagine you can do this on the R6 too.
Other than that, you usually need to enter the focal length of the manual lens into a menu option somewhere, which helps the camera with calculating the IBIS.
I have a canon R7 and use totally manual lenses without electrical contacts. The images are stabilised because the R7 has stabilisation in the body, manual focus is a dream with focus peaking enabled and I usually shoot manual exposure with auto ISO and exposure bracketing to overcome the issue that the camera is unaware of the aperture in use. Works like a dream for me.
Thanks, that’s encouraging.
They should be the same, generally I prefer the EVF.
That said, if you are just using the camera for manual focus lenses, it may be overkill, and you can get very similar features from an older camera. The R6iii, like all recent cameras, has a very advanced AF system so you will be just paying for something you are not using.
AFAIK some cameras (Nikon?) have the ability to expose automatically when a selected point is in focus; you just turn the focus ring and when it thinks it is ready the exposure is triggered by the camera. I have not tried this feature but it sounds interesting.
Thanks.
Yes, I’ve just been digging around and it looks like EVF as well as rear screen.
I mentioned some canon lenses, so it’s not just manual, and I understand the canon ones would work just as well with the EF-R adapter mount as they do with my two “legacy” bodies.
I’ve never had a camera with IBIS so an R6 would be a big improvement.
On your last point, I don’t think my canons will do that. I have a 6D which can take Magic Lantern, one day I ought to try it! I expect it will do focus trap, zebras and all sorts of stuff.
To be honest I’ve never heard of this feature. I might look it up as it sounds interesting… the only thing I know is that switching to MF turns the selected phase-detect focus point green once in focus – quite handy so that you don’t have to guess or zoom the live view