Canon EOS M6 Mark II review: Our favorite Canon mirrorless camera yet

Hi there! I was curious, and used this camera for a longer period during holiday (borrowed it from my wife and kids). Conclusion: this is one of the instances when I believe Canon was very wrong: why not adding weather sealing? Why? This is idiotic - the camera is a gem, small, easy to use, took action photos with demanding AF situations with ease... the 1.6x factor is clearly a plus for birds, and image quality is not superlative, but very good to excellent - so everything was brilliant until the rain started (a Summer storm, to be precise), and I had to throw it in the bag... what a shame, as we had incredible scenery...!!!

Samsung NX1: My favourite non-Canon, non-Sony, non-Panasonic, non-Fuji and non-Nikon mirrorless camera.

Why is this not good for "Sports or wildlife photographers"? I don't see the reason in the review.

Clip on EVF....going back in time are we :)

What if you want to use a clip on flash and the EVF .A deal breaker for me.

I m a canon fan but greatly disappointed with this camera.
1.No built in viewfinder why ? Not possible to frame shot of fast action like sports or wild life. Add on is weird !
2. No 18-135 zoom , almost all buyer never buy other lens and live with kit lens.
3. Very mediocre kit lens with little zoom. Bad match for 32 mp sensor.
4.Video quality below par with sharpness problems why canon you cannot take sharp video ?
5. No weather sealing
Why canon engineers do not think of these shortcomings.
Is canon not taking mirrorless seriously.
Why not a sharp small lightweight 18-135 zoom for the above camera. As 18-135 is the favorite lens of photographers.

Worth noting are the following unfortunate limitations:

1. The electronic level disappears if you enable tracking and face-/eye-detect AF.
2. The electronic level disappears when you start recording video.
3. The histogram disappears when you start recording video.
4. Lens distortion correction is not allowed for video.

I hope these can get fixed. How about it, Canon?

A very sad review by DpReview.
We have the first new Canon sensor in a few years. What about dynamic range? Where's the great RAW dynamic range test you guys developed? I checked your ISO Invariance tool, it's better buy still falls short of Sony's. Is that why did you decided not to include it in the first test of a new Canon sensor?
Shutter shock blurs images. Great! So that flaw didn't escape your notice, but you decided not to include a picture to show its effect in your review.
Autofocus tracking. The camera can manage 14 fps. But you decided to only show the nearly perfect test of 7FPS, while warning us that at 14fps, the tracking was worse.
Electronic shutter. Why not tell us how it performs at 30 fps RAW burst? You did warn us of a very slow readout and rolling shutter. Why not any image to show its extent?

Having read the whole article, it feels like DpReview is trying to tell us so many things but was silenced by an invisible hand. How much did Canon threaten you guys?

I'm yet wondering why you (DPR) put the first photo about this camera with the EVF put on, when it's not included by default...

Does it still have like 6 or 7 native lenses? Because that is why I didn't go EF-M when I started with Mirrorless. There was not reason if they were only going to lean on cheap kit lenses and adapting EF line stuff.

To me the defining feature in determining the ranking of a camera is image output quality.

Image quality, both RAW and jpeg, are quite low scoring on the performance graph so how come the Gold Award?

It's worth mentioning that the previous APS-C megapixel kings that this and the 90D are finally dethroning were the NX1 and NX500 (unless I missed a camera, I haven't paid super close attention to new gear lately). I guess the NX1 gets an insert in the other article, "Canon's 32MP chip marks the end of the 24MP APS-C era." As I am among the apparent few owners of an NX1, I'm unfamiliar with this 24 MP era :P and this is just yet another feature on my camera that has taken other makers years to reach that I have spent shooting my NX1. And yeah... Samsung, I do feel you owe it to everyone to bring that 300mm f/2.8 to market after showing it off like that at Photokina.

Such a dumb camera getting a gold review, go figure.

Time for an M5 Mark II with full weather sealing and a fully articulating screen. Basically, a mirrorless 90D. The original M5 got a lot of things right, but it fell short of being a mirrorless 80D.

"Canon says it will add 4K/24p shooting to the M6 II with a firmware update in 2020."

The sheer stupidity of releasing a camera with 30 and 25 FPS but no 24 is mind-boggling... AGAIN!

that film cannister like EVF teetering in the Hotshoe is so elegant and,....umm compact

Not bashing, but National Geographic puts the M6 II into the Entry Level (Beginners Class) Cameras, where the M6 II belongs:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/best-compact-cameras-2020/

If i would buy a EOS-M, the EOS M50 is a much better Deal, way cheaper from Price to Performance Ratio - Worlds cheaper than this M6 II, and with a EVF integrated into the Body, as it should be.

The M6 II is 1199 EUR today into germany, whileas the M50 585 EUR only (!!!) both with the inferior 15-45 Kitlens, go figure! Needless to say, one would being really dumb, to pay >200% Money, for the same Kitlens, and just a little bit better AF and Body, additional features, that a Beginner never needs !

M6 II - 15-45 Kit (w/o EVF)
https://geizhals.de/canon-eos-m6-mark-ii-schwarz-mit-objektiv-ef-m-15-45mm-3-5-6-3-is-stm-3611c012-a2122041.html

M50 - 15-45 Kit
https://geizhals.de/canon-eos-m50-schwarz-mit-objektiv-ef-m-15-45mm-3-5-6-3-is-stm-2680c012-a1777275.html

A fine sunday, good Light.

Canon EVFs are a pain. Extremely useless. All of them. Very high contrast and extremely high saturation. Not WYSIWYG AT ALL. I was a real canonite for 40+ years. But they dropped the MILC ball completely. Feel free to have your own opinion.

As much as I love DPReview (and I really love your great work), I have nonetheless to point to the subjectivity of this kind of recommendations.
When compared with the Sony A6400, which is in the same class (APS-C MLC).
According to amazon.com, the A6400 and Canon M6 ii cost virtually the same as body only (around 870-899 USD).
According to DPReview's own "comapre tool" chart (in the conclusion section), the A6400 wins against the M6ii in 9 categories and loses in only 1 category (handling), 2 categories are tied. So that's a 9:1 win for Sony.
Of course - each category has a different value for different users and different use cases, so it's absolutely fine to pick a camera because of what is most important for oneself. And this is highly subjective.
And that's why I have problems with DPREview's recommendation of the Canon M6ii: with a loss of 1:9 against the 6400, the level of subjectivity must be extremely high in order to give a clear recommendation.

Weird looking VF. Looks like an afterthought.

Bought it with the M mount adapter on Black Friday, and played with it for a full day, both daytime and night. This is a point and shoot camera on "steroid". Its targets are traveling Canon pros and enthusiasts who are familiar and enjoy with the Canon way of operations. My EF and EF-S lenses work very well with the adapter. In some cases, the output is better than the native EF-M kit lens. Now, I have a problem. Should I lug one or two EF lenses on travel? If so, it defeats my original purpose of buying it for a lightweight vacation. By the way, I don't think I need the EVF for travel. The screen is good enough. (The packaged EVF is DC2, not DC1 which can adjust the viewing angle.)

I'm really thinking to buy this camera soon, mhhh.

It's a lovely camera needs very good optics I'd like a no bayer/BW version too. and a slip in filter in the converter for M to EF.

That new Canon APS-C chip seems to be really nice actually.

Hated the first leaked image of the M6 II.
Heavily invested in Eos M lenses though...
Bought it to test it, pretty sure I was going to hate it.
The EVF does feel silly, it's not the most beautiful camera ever.

But man, the images it spits out.
The usability and interface, it's just fun to shoot with. Canon is the only milc with a usable, fun touch-screen interface.
Don't underestimate the pop-up bounceable flash for in door shooting.

I still doubted that much that I went back to the camera store.
Held an A7III - too heavy and interface is meh. No usable touch screen on such an expensive camera? God...
Held an X-T3 - very close, but 1K for the 56mm and 600euro for the old 35mm? Yeah no thanks. Got the STM 32mm 1.4 and the 56mm 1.4. Super silent and light, and half the price. Also the 22mm pancake...excellent.
Held a Z6 - wanted to love the camera. But again, a bit too heavy/big.

There was only one conclusion, i LIKE shooting with the canon.
TRY one if you get the chance!

Black Friday deal are great....Sony a6000 are $200 off.
including 2 lens....$599

850$ camera without EVF, Canon please...

It is a really nice camera. The 14 fps shooting will be amazing.

The M6ii has what appears to be a comfortable grip for a small camera, likely better than that of the A6000. The A6000 has the advantage of integrated, left-side evf. In my view, electronic cameras do not need a proper vf as they have all have a large evf known as a screen. Both the A6000 and M6ii are lacking though as neither manufacturer has fitted their cameras with fully articulating screens. That is my opinion of course, but being a professional film slr user to this day, digital cameras with a fully articulating screen are the only ones that made full use of the potential of electronic-only cameras.

For now I'm staying with the Sony since there is no great leap forward with this camera. Whatever company first puts all the proper bits together into a proper package will be my first "upgrade."

Got tired of these "damn no EVF, no IBIS, no cinema like video OOC" etc posts)
EVF - go back to school! Sorry, if you've even checked it, Canon HAD M5 with embedded EVF, later did M50 WITH THAT DAMN EMBEDDED EVF, it is still alone with their Rebel BESTSELLER in Japan. Sorry for that type of text, but have to - for mee it looks like Canon knows sell figures much better than average 6-month-at-max registered here morons, and sorry again for that definition). M6 II was clear sign about 1) tech Canon can and 2) market value

Personally I like M5/M50 kind of cameras, but it's me, not you and not an average buyer. Market told em everything. Last Sat spent 6 hrs with my M6 - saw a lot of smartphones around, 3 Canon DSLRs with big whites and just one or two ppl with some MILCs, trying to to something with em at just -10C. I won, because it wasn't a problem at all for me)

I suppose this is my next body
I already have a 50mm EF mount lens, what adapter is required?

I enjoy Canon cameras and am sure DPReview's enthusiastic review is well-deserved. I have to admit though, that for me the lack of a built-in EVF is simply disqualifying. Sony managed to get a pretty good one into their little a6400 and its siblings. It's not clear to me what Canon achieved or what users gain by the omission of a built-in EVF.

Whu do DPR state the camera has "Excellent image quality in Raw and JPEG" when their graph shows less than stellar performance in image quality.

It reminds me of Olympus pen.
That EVF would be annoying to work the camera into your tourist pack or your daddy day pack...

Boast of no crop ....... on the crop sensor camera

You have to wonder with these reviewers if it is their favourite camera to review but how many of them will you actually see out and about squinting in to a rear screen in the bright sunlight or tolerating that clumsy vulnerable EVF on top as their own day to day kit.

I'm glad Canon wakes up after so many years of lagging behind in sensor technology. I do not like this camera in particular because of the lack of EVF, but the system has always attracted my attention, with simple, decent, crisp and very economical lenses. As a Sony Apsc user I always envied that 22 f2 ... now that sigma joins the party, I think it's a very good alternative, it only needs a moderate aperture zoom, a 16-80 f4 or a 16-55 f2.8.