LocalNavy433 Photography

Hello and how the hell are you?  If this is your first time here thanks for stopping by.  In this blog we are going to answer the question on whether or not the Canon 60d is still a good choice for shooting landscape photography in today’s mirrorless world.  The short answer to this question is yes it will work and you will get some stellar images with it.  After you decide to upgrade from your Rebel t6 you will be wanting more features to help you in getting your images.  One feature that you are going to notice is the fully articulating screen that the 60d has over the t6.  This feature allows you get different perspectives that you would have missed when shooting with a fixed screen.   

Gone will be the days of you trying to see the screen when you have the camera at a very low angle or over your head.  I am not going to go over the spec differences between the t6 and the 60d because they use the same sensor so it would be a moot point to go over.  I am going to go over the features that set the two apart like the flip screen that was a game changer for me and I wish that I would have bought the 60d first and never went down the road of shooting the t6.  The sad part is the t6 taught me so much in the way of being able to actually get a good image.  The 60d allowed me more freedom while out shooting to get better images because I was free to shoot different perspectives.  

The next feature that the 60d had over the t6 was a built in level to make sure that my horizon was perfectly level.  This allowed me to truly get better images while out shooting.  Gone were the days of using the grid to ensure that I was level only to get it on the computer at home to see that I was still off just a little bit.  The 60d offered me the ability to get more things right in camera while out shooting.  The level really allows you to step out of the comfort level that you are at when shooting with a entry level camera.  The semipro features that you get with the 60d really do level up your game.  

The top LCD is something that I never thought that I needed when out shooting with the t6.  You can see all the settings on the screen when in live view and you can see all the settings in the view finder why would you need that top LCD screen right.  Well let me tell you that when you are out shooting and you are in the middle of taking a long exposure being able to see what your settings were and the timer that shows you how long the shot has been going for really helps.  I still use that top LCD on my 80d and the other pro level cameras that I have shot with.  The fact of being able to see the setting without having them on the back screen really helps.  Then you have the fact that when you are out shooting the stars at night you don’t want the back LCD on as it will mess with your vision being able to turn on the light for the top LCD and quickly change the setting to try something different it is right there to help you.  

The aperture wheel on the back the body is one thing that I also didn’t think that I needed until I did.  Being able to change your aperture with a quick spin of the wheel was a game changer for me and it sped up my ability to get the exposure that I wanted with ease.  That wheel is also used for moving around the menus on the camera which is so much faster than a D pad that you have on the t6.  You see it is the little features that you will find make shooting with the 60d so much better.  Are they actually needed no they are not needed but they sure do help a lot while you are in the field shooting.  

The one feature that was the one that really made me want the 60d was the battery life.  Oh man that is something that I never thought that was a bad thing when I shooting the t6 because getting around 500 images off one charge was good enough for me but the 60d doubled that.  Now that I was able to shoot longer I was in seventh heaven and there was just something about knowing that you could shoot double the amount of time was a game changer for me.  The 60d battery will last weeks when shooting with the view finder over live view that is just a fact that is something that will keep you shooting so much longer.  When you are using live view the amount of time out shooting is still around 800 images or about five hours from my test which is still double to what you will get with the t6.  So the upgrade from the t6 was worth it and it took me a year of research to find out what would be the best camera to get that I could afford.  

I was getting the same sensor but the features out weighed the fact that I was still shooting on a 18MP sensor.  It is not all about the sensors when you are looking at a camera it is more about the features that you will get that you will be using.  My images were still the same as if I was shooting on the t6 or the 60d but the fact was I was able to get them faster with the 60d and at the end of the day that is what matter to me.  Now for price of the 60d today is only $239 dollars and when you get the Sigma 17-50 f2.8 to go with it for $350 bucks you cannot go wrong with that setup.  The point of these articles is to show you that you don’t need the latests and greatest gear to be out shooting.  The total cost of upgrading if you already have that sigma lens is only $239 bucks so you will get so much more feature wise and you won’t be sorry.  I could go on and on about this camera because it was one of my all time favorite cameras to shoot with.