Canon EOS 90D and M6 Mark II with 32.5-megapixel sensor cost 1320 and 950 euros

By admin On Aug 28, 2019

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Canon will release its EOS 90D DSLR and mirrorless M6 Mark II system camera in September. The devices have a new 32.5-megapixel sensor of the aps-c format, with Dual Pixel autofocus. The SLR costs 1320 euros and the system camera 950 euros.

The new sensor that Canon puts in both cameras has a sensitivity of 100 to 25,600 iso. That can be digitally expanded to an equivalent of 51,200 iso. Canon combines the sensor with its Digic 8 image processor and both the dslr and the mirrorless camera can film in 4k resolution at 30fps. Canon has, however, removed the option to film in 24 fps. That frame rate is used for most cinema movies.

Like its predecessor 80D, the Canon EOS 90D has 45 autofocus points. However, the new camera has a metering sensor with 220,000 pixels, which is used for scene and face recognition when shooting through the viewfinder. The 80D has a much simpler metering sensor with 7560 pixels, and that camera also doesn’t have facial recognition when shooting through the viewfinder. The 90D achieves 10fps when shooting through the viewfinder. That was 7fps on the 80D.

When shooting in live view via the LCD on the camera, the sensor’s Dual Pixel autofocus is used. This covers almost the entire image surface and more than five thousand focus points are available. As with the EOS RP, Eye Detection AF is also available.

The housing of the EOS 90D is almost identical to that of the 80D. Canon has added a joystick on the back to select focus points. The 90D also gets an improved shutter button, which has more travel, just like with the more expensive cameras of the brand. Also new is the USB-C port, which can be used to charge the camera and transfer files. The connection also uses the USB 2.0 specification, which means that the speed for file transfer is limited.

Canon’s EOS M6 Mark II is in many ways similar to the 90D, but it is a mirrorless camera without an optical viewfinder. The shooting speed is 14 fps, that higher speed is achievable due to the lack of the mirror mechanism. Incidentally, the buffer of the camera is limited to twenty photos in full resolution. Then the speed drops. When using compressed raw, this increases to thirty photos.

Also, the M6 Mark II has a Raw Burst option in which thirty frames in a second are captured at a 1.33x crop, resulting in 18-megapixel photos. It is possible to extract half of these images from the buffer. That is, thirty images are saved when the shutter button is pressed, with the first fifteen images captured in the half second before the shutter button is pressed.

The EOS M6 Mark II does not have an electronic viewfinder, but the external EVF-DC2 viewfinder previously released for the M6 is also compatible with the new camera. The screen on the back of the camera is tiltable and can also be rotated 180 degrees.

Canon also announces the price and availability of two RF lenses. The RF 15-35 mm f/2.8L and the RF 24-70 mm f/2.8L with IS image stabilization both cost 2540 euros and will also be released in September. These lenses are not suitable for the 90D and 6D Mark II, but must be paired with the EOS R or the EOS RP. These are mirrorless cameras with a full-frame sensor.