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R6 VS R3 Which camera is better?

Started Dec 15, 2021 | Discussions thread
photographer daniel
OP photographer daniel Forum Member • Posts: 88
Re: Very good and the best ...

KariP wrote:

This discussion (of ours) and showing some images was perhaps a waste of time. Trying to see from a random 5mp jpeg image which camera is sharp, is not a very fruitful method. And you wanted to know if R3 is really better than R6 - in the first place. Of course iR3 is a better camera, but from some uncontrolled test shot you can not see if R3 is somehow "sharper" because it is not.

R3 has extremely more "gadgets" - like AF points that you can control with your eye movement, GPS, much faster fps , better video systems, longer lasting battery and so on - if you can use and need all that, it is absolutely worth paying some 4000€ more. R3 is a very great camera to make good photographs or videos - of course all that depends on the user of the tool.

I'm not a professional making photos of fast motorsports or things like that or doing reportages in jungles or war zone. To me resolution that a good 20mp sensor can give is good enough - for printing clean and sharp A2 size images. R5 could be a little better (perhaps i could use 30-50% wider printing paper) - but i do not need 45mp sensor and i do not want to buy a huge professional printer or order bigger prints from a professional. R3 and R6 are both on the same resolution (20-26mp) level. R5 is arguably better for landscapes - if you make huge prints. Possibility to crop more is not a quality thing IMO.

Dynamic range is very important for my personal style and in my surroundings - there are no great differences between R6 , R3 or R5. In tests noise levels do not differ much and they all have usable high ISO level - i very rarely shoot with higher than ISO 6000. Who does?

And of course R3 has a lot of status value - R3 with a lens like RF 28-70f2,o L will surely make an impression to everyone who knows !

Comparing 6DMkII and R3 : usability is different and gadgets, video ... 6D sensor can not produce the same DR or high ISO quality or low noise level in shadows as R3 (or R5 or R6). Just ask yourself what you need and what you can use in your own personal photography /hobbies/style - then you will know what is the best camera (for you to use) It can be 6DmkII and you will save a lot of money

I look more at the image quality and not the features that are in the camera.
What matters to me is Dynamic range, iso, sharpness (it also depends on the lenses).

Focus through the eyes and all that, it's just features that give the photographer better abilities, but a good photographer also knew how to take a great picture without it.

Lost information in the image will not be editable

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