Is it worth upgrading my EOS 80D to the EOS 6D Mark II?
We already had a simple look at how good an upgrade the EOS 6D II makes for 80D owners, based on our early impressions of the camera. Now we`ve had a chance to spend more time with it (and to go back and shoot with the 80D again), we thought we`d look at the differences and benefits in more detail.
We`re going to try not to make too many assumptions about what you shoot with your 80D and what you value in a camera, beyond assuming that you kinda like your current camera, that you enjoy using a camera that works broadly as well in live view mode as it does through the viewfinder and that you`d like something fairly similar but, you know, better. Will the 6D II do that for you?
Image quality improvements
The 6D II`s larger sensor means it receives more total light than the 80D, when shot with the same exposure settings (the same light per unit area, but with more capture area). This generally means the 6D II will offer better image quality than the 80D. As much as anything else, this tends to be what prompts most people to move to larger sensor formats.
However, you don`t get the full advantage that you`d get if the 6D II simply used a scaled-up version of the 80D`s sensor, so how much of a step up does the 6D end up being?
The sensor size difference means you can get shallower depth-of-field more readily than you could on the 80D. Indeed, shoot the same scene from the same position and at the same f-number and you`ll get shallower depth of field. For certain types of photos, shallow depth of field is interpreted as better.
The 6D II`s larger sensor also means you get better performance in low light. If you regularly shoot above about ISO 1600, the 6D II will give you an immediate improvement in image quality, simply because it gets more light.
Image quality concerns
The more sophisticated design of the 80D`s sensor means it adds less noise to its images than ...
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