Camera Tryout - _TNY_8938 - a photo on Flickriver

            By now, my Canon 5Ds is a 15 year old model. I've only had it since early 2021, but it isn't  really state-of-the-art tech anymore.

This is why it was a great opportunity to get to try a co-worker's recently purchased Canon R6 on a visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house. I still used the same lens and tripod as usual so the user experience wasn't trememndously different, but still very cool for me.

The R6 is of course a ridiculously more competent camera in basically all aspects - but after trying this one out, I don't feel the upgrade bug taking hold of me.

The AF system is way way better, having IBIS (in-body image stabilization) is great, it can capture video at faster framerates and higher resolution and the high-ISO capabilities blow my camera out of the water.

But the thing is, I don't need either of those features. AF isn't useful at macro magnifications, freezing the frame with flash beats IBIS, I don't shoot video and there is no need for high ISO when I have all the light I need from the flash.

The 50.3 megapixel resolution of the 5Ds instead of 24 on the R6 is still more useful for my use case so I would be buying a camera which is better at everything I don't do - for cutting my resolution in half.

Still, it was awesome to get to try and a big thank you to Jarek for letting me have a go with it.

The butterfly captured here is a blue-banded morpho (Morpho achilles) which posed willingly on a leaf of a peace lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii) for "my" R6.

Taken in: Sweden / Stockholm / Haga (show map)

Taken on: February 25, 2025

Tags:

macro

Canon

CanonEOSR6

Haga Fjärilshus

Haga Ocean

butterfly house

tropical butterfly

insect

butterfly

Schmetterling

fjäril

papillon

vlinder

Lepidoptera

Glossata

Rhopalocera

Sigma

Sigma 180mm f/3.5 APO Macro DG HSM

Sigma AF 180 mm f/3.5 APO Macro EX DG HSM

180mm

Sigma 180mm F3.5 EX DG

Sigma 2x EX APO DG teleconverter

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Sets appears in: • Haga Ocean Butterfly House • Butterflies

Groups appears in: • Sigma Lenses • Canon and Sigma more » • Living Jewels of Nature • Captured by SIGMA • !Flickr Macro « less

Camera: Canon EOS R6, f/11.0, 0.4 sec, 360mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R6
Lens:	360.0 mm
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.4
Focal Length:	360mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 23.3 (Windows)
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