Is it worth upgrading R6 mk1 to mk2 for wildlife/birding/BIF?

BirdShooter7 wrote:

Nice! I’d love to hear more details about what improvements you’ve found most useful.

A few initial thoughts..

The AF has really been developed a lot. There are more and better possibilities to control how it finds what you plan to shoot and how to keep it focusing on what you want. It feels better in some very  challenging situations.

I often struggled with R6 when i shoot 20fps (now 40fps) and end up having lots of pictures i need to manage and possibly mass delete. Mk2 lets you delete the whole series of pictures at once. And the raw burst mode seems - based on my very initial experiences  - very usefull (also when not using the pre-buffer): You can shoot a series of images and then easily extract just those images you want to keep and save as separate CR3's - either in camera or in DPP (which i do not use). Then you can easily delete the "roll" as they call it. It is a bit clumsy implementation but i see many good sides too - time will tell how practical it is. And the pre-buffer (i.e. getting 15 images from the 0,5sec before you press the shutter fully) would have helped me a lot in the past and enabled to get perfect shots in situations that i missed.

I feel 20fps was enough for me but i guess in some situations 40 might be good. And less rolling shutter is good.

I feel it has been improved in so many little ways that it just feels better.

I guess the upgrade is not that worthwhile for landscape, wedding, portrait etc photographers but for wildlife, especially BIF, i honestly think it is a good upgrade.