ME with the Canon R6
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to go on a Sheclicks event where Canon came along with some cameras and lenses for us to try….Well not actually Canon as such, but Jamie and Raj from Canon who were brilliant at helping us to choose which of their varied selection of cameras and lenses to try out - and even having a canon mini printer there at the end for some prints of what we had captured!
I wanted specifically to look at the difference between my 80D and the R6 mark 2 with regard to multiple exposure. I wouldn’t choose to buy a camera based solely on it’s ME capabilities but due to limited time to use it and my love for all things mixed up, I was looking to see what extras this camera had. The first thing I noticed was the 4 blend modes instead of 2 - the R6 has the accumulative and additive as with my 80d but also a light and dark mode. I used the dark mode in most of the exposures that I tried but here is a tree done with both…
These are not my favourite images but they do show you a flavour of what the different blend modes do. I preferred the dark mode for the type of pictures I wanted to create at RHS Wisley, Surrey and so went to town with the red! The red tree below was much easier to create than the 80d as I didn’t have to use the live view with the mirrorless camera giving me an image to use for lining up in the electronic viewfinder. This was really helpful and a big bonus over the way I had been creating images and this made in camera multiple exposures much more fun and much less hit and miss! This acer was such an incredible colour I didn’t want to stop taking more and more images….
….But I did tear myself away to go to the glasshouses where I stuck to red to begin with . These wonderful berries (yes, I know, I should have read the label! If anyone knows what they are and would like to let me know please do feel free to contact me!) were prime candidates for double exposure and both of these were taken with one sharp and one out of focus image. I rather like them! The R6 also had the advantage of keeping all the raw images that made up the multiple exposure which was certainly better than going 360 degrees round a tree - and then again in case I wanted to play out of camera!
Just before I ran out of time I spotted these beautiful leaves at the edge of the hot houses framed by the windows with all the condensation of old on them. The two colour images below are in camera double exposures and I love the way it has changed the green colour slightly. The black and white isn’t a multiple but I wanted to see how far in I could crop with this camera - in short, much more than I currently can!!
My verdict - I thought I hadn’t grown out of my camera yet but after using the R6 I believe I truly have! There is so much more to explore with an upgrade that I will need to take the plunge next year….so what will I be buying? Well I am trying out the canon R5 this weekend which I will write about in my next blog so let’s see what delights that brings me…..
If you have either the R6 or R5 and have an opinion it would be great to hear - drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on with yours!
