Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D Review 2020

Canon Cameras
11 min readJun 17, 2020

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Introductions

The Canon replaces the EOS 750D (Rebel T6i, like its brand Stateside) introduced in 2013 with the EOS 700D / Rebel T5i.

The camera is equipped with a 24.2-megapixel APS-CMOS sensor with an ISO 100–12800 range (expanded to ISO 25600), and continuous shooting 5fps.

Canon has also implemented the DIGIC6 image processor to replace the DIGIC5 unit found on 700D, and the new model also adopts a 19-point autofocus system that was pulled from the EOS 70D.

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The 750D exposure measurement system is also new, with the addition of Wi-Fi connectivity with the NFC installation.

Externally, the 750D is almost like its predecessor, with a touch-sensitive and capable 1040K-dot 3-inch LCD screen. The physical control layout of the camera is the same as the 700D.

However, if you like the top panel LCD screen display and rear control wheels on the EOS 70D, the new 760D that was introduced with the 750D includes these features, but in all other respects, it Similar to the Canon EOS 750d.

I hope to pay around £600/$750 for a Canon 750D body or £690 / $ 850 for an 18–55mm lens kit.

Ease of use

In the first management of the Canon EOS 750D, you will have a hard time telling this from the old 700D. Both cameras have a case design and almost identical control layout, and their size and weight are reasonable.

The 750D is slightly shorter at 131.9mm and slightly shorter at 77.8mm, although the height of 100.7mm is 0.9mm on all 700Ds. Despite this similarity, Canon has succeeded in reducing the bodyweight of 750D — 25 grams lighter than the 700D and 10 grams lighter than 760D.

The quality of the building is as high as you would expect at this price point. The structure of the chassis is made of plastic, not alloy of magnesium, but it feels extreme without any flakes or twitches.

Rubberized panels on both sides and the back thumb provide excellent grip, but there is no weather sealing, so you should be careful in dusty or humid environments.

Weather sealing is a feature that most manufacturers order from their enthusiastic DSLRs, so you need to upgrade to 70D or 7D Mark II to get this protection.

The difference between the EOS 750D and the 760D is subtle, but the lack of display of the 750D secondary top panel settings is one of the most surprising. It is somewhat inherited from the age of film cameras but is still useful for clearly displaying current shooting settings using minimal battery power.

The top panel of the 750D uses the same control layout instead of the 700D and its rival Nikon D500, with the mode player located on your right hand.

Dial mode options feature entry-level DSLRs, including standard automatic programming, shutter priority (Tv), aperture priority (AV), and full manual control.

Canon divides these four uses into groups known as ‘creative zones,’ separating them from options such as pre-set scene modes.

However, there are no confusing options from this present, as Canon reviews options available for children, food, candlelight, night portraits, handheld night scenes, Handheld Night Scene, and HDR Backlight Control.

The latter is very useful for capturing three consecutive shots of the same scene to significantly increase the camera’s dynamic range for more realistic images in high contrast environments.

Front of the Canon EOS 750D

Besides, Mode Dial has four different modes for shooting sports, close-ups, landscape, and portrait images.

Each mode prefers appropriate shooting settings to flatter your subject, such as using a wide aperture and soft color tones to enhance portrait shooting. Once you become familiar with the concept of things like aperture and how it affects your photos, these tricks can be easily manipulated.

But if you jump from one point to another DSLR, an Automatic special present is still useful. -Shoot or burn the camera.

The same is valid for auto creative shooting modes that combine blur options in the background, color tone settings that enhance the environment, drive mode, and flash controls in one lap.

The other two dial mode options are fully-automatic Scene Intelligent Auto mode, as well as a useful Flash-off mode.

With 750D in automatic mode, the flash is free to explode and flash if the camera detects low light environments, which will allow you to get out of the museum or gallery quickly. Can. Switch to flash off mode, and the camera stays fully automatic, but enough to prevent the flash from turning on.

You can get the same results by switching to automatic program mode, but you need to make sure that the white balance and ISO sensitivity items are set correctly.

The top panel of the Canon 750D also has a single control wheel to adjust settings such as aperture and shutter speed when aperture mode or shutter priority is available.

In full manual mode, the rotation controls the shutter speed but adjusts the control wheel aperture By pressing and holding the Exposure payment button on the back panel.

One advantage of the 760D is that it receives a clicking ring that rotates around the D-pad, allowing you to adjust the aperture and shutter speed at the same time.

Returning to the top panel of the 750D and we found two new buttons that were not present on the 700D.

On both cameras, there is an ISO button between the mode dial and the control wheel (the Nikon button refuses to join the anti-D5X600 series camera), but the 750D surrounds it with a button to the LCD screen. With automatic focus point selection button on and off as well.

The latter is useful when you need to quickly switch from standard autofocus to enable single point or zone configs. It should also be noted that the 750D automatic focus system itself is a significant improvement over the 700D used, increasing the AF’s score from nine to 19.

It is still 39-point Auto Focus on the Nikon D5500. The F may look a bit murky compared to the system, but it only represents nine more sensitive cross-type focus points, the 750D AF. All of the points are the same cross-type.

The rear of the Canon EOS 750D

Go to the Canon EOS 750D and Business Rear Control Panel as you are familiar with the 700D layout. The back-thumb grips are large and programmatic and have a live V button, and the thumb grip has a zoom control for image playback.

Below the camera, but within reach of the thumb, is the exposure compensation button that works with the top panel control wheel, and below it is the quick control button. It displays a menu screen with button shooting settings available for adjustment to the current shooting mode.

The menu layout is similar to the readings of the current settings, as seen during the shoot, so there is no doubt where you need to adjust the settings. What’s more, the instant control menu is large enough to get every shooting parameter touched.

Like its predecessor, the 700D, the 3-inch 750D, the 1040K-dot LCD screen is sensitive to touch. The installation of the technology by Canon is seamless as if you are from a traditional DSLR.

You don’t need to use touch controls, and the 750D will work because you use the simple D-Pad direction control and SET buttons on the back panel.

However, once you try to select different shooting options on the quick control menu and adjust them to the touch screen, it doesn’t take big to appreciate the ease of direct control. The ability to go directly to the display and touch the screen to select focus points is also beneficial.

It’s also good to switch between shooting and pinch-zooming during playback, and although zooming isn’t as good as high-end smartphones, it’s more convenient than using the 750D physical zoom button.

In addition to the Canon EOS 750D’s touch-sensitive screen, it also has a front-facing flip-out unit to help take selfies, plus it rotates up to 270 degrees for high and low angle shots.

But even without this extra trick, using the 750D screen is a pleasure. Its high 1040 k-dot resolution makes it easy to check the exact focus, and other image reviews are aided by exceptional color and contrast accuracy.

The viewing angle of the screen is also extensive, so you can comfortably take a shot while holding the camera above or below the head’s height.

The top part of the Canon EOS 750D

The 750D viewfinder is almost identical to the 700D used, although the expansion has been reduced from 0.85x to 0.82x. The Viewfinder coverage does not change, showing 95% of the picture frames.

Although suitable for the Nikon D500, the Pentax KS2 Viewer offers 100% frame coverage, making it easy to take photos accurately.

While the Canon EOS 750D’s screen and viewfinder can change from around 700D, this new camera thanks to the high connectivity thanks to the built-in Wi-Fi with NFC installation.

However, the first impression of this feature is not right, as the camera does not have a physical button to directly activate the Wi-Fi access point.

Instead, you’ll have to navigate to the 750D main menu to activate Wi-Fi, and here you can also choose whether you want to switch images between the cameras, connect to a smartphone, or Wi-Fi. Want to print from a Fi printer, upload to web services, or view images.

The Wi-Fi process can be a bit confusing when pairing with a traditional smartphone. Which requires you to first connect to a 750D wireless hotspot and then open the Canon Camera Connect application.

This method is much easier if you have an NFC-enabled smart device, as you can easily tap it on the camera to make a connection.

After connecting to the smartphone, you will be able to view images remotely and download downloads with full resolution, high-quality JPEG images converted in about eight seconds.

This application will allow you to remote control the 750D and adjust settings such as aperture, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity, although you will, of course, have to adjust the zoom manually.

The Wi-Fi 750D maintains a stable signal and performs well in addition to reasonably advanced setup and connection process.

Canon EOS 750D on hand

The Canon EOS 750d is fast and easy to operate, thanks to an intuitive touch screen and button layout, but it also has clear menu layouts and tabs that eliminate all forms of scrolling.

There are 11 tabs scattered at the top of the screen, displayed in three pages of shooting options, one tab of display settings, two tabs for playback settings, and four pages of camera adjustment options.

The final tab is the custom ‘My Menu,’ where you can add multiple settings to create your menu tabs from the most frequently used options. The menu design is also touch-friendly, although you can just open and hide the menu using the physical menu button at the top of the LCD screen.

The camera is fast and accurate for focusing, but you sometimes feel the need to select the desired focus point manually. Naturally, the speed and performance of the autofocus will partly depend on the choice of your lens.

Still, the EF-S is equipped with 17–85mm f / 4–5.6 ISM optics, focusing speed 0.1 seconds in good light Is less than Due to the moderate position, the camera shuts off in about 0.5–1 second, but focus hunting is never difficult.

The autofocus faster, but the 750DV also benefits from the new DIGIC6 image processor for faster continuous shooting.

It’s not really faster than 5DPS and 700D, but with more than 30% pixels to run 750D, it’s a respectable performance, especially since the 750D will maintain this speed for 940 JPEG shots where 700 D can only manage 22.

Battery mounting is less effective than rib. The Nikon D5300 has already been unveiled is a 440-shot 700D battered lifetime.

But the Canon EOS 750D still has the same capabilities, while the Nikon has extended the D5500’s battery life to 820 big shots. ; Almost twice as much as the 750D.

Picture quality

All sample pictures in this review were taken using the 24-megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives the image a breast size of approximately 7 MB.

The Canon 18.0-megapixel sensor features the new 24.2MP CMOS on the 700D. Switching from device to device not only enhances the 750D’s much-needed specifications but also translates to unparalleled image quality.

You’ll have a hard time seeing the difference between an ISO 100 and a 400 shot, and at ISO 800, there’s only a slight reduction in detail. There is a slight increase in grain at ISO 1600, and a few small examples of color spots can be seen in neutral tones if you examine very carefully.

The ISO 3200 figure shows some more grain and a little more detail, but again, the loss of quality is minimal. It is a similar story between ISO 6400 and ISO 12800, as each setting produces very little noise, as well as a slight increase in leveling details and color border colors.

There are also some stains in the stable tone area at ISO 12800, but only to a limited extent, as you would typically expect from an ISO 3200 shot.

Even without monitoring, the images from the Canon EOS 750D are impressive. With the image control option set to ‘Standard,’ the colors are bright without appearing too saturated or natural.

The camera’s exposure assessment measures are also very reliable. Despite sharing the same 63-zone system as the 700D, it now has a 7560-pixel RGB sensor that reaches the infrared spectrum to account for color and light.

You’re rewarded with images that almost always come out right and show the perfect balance between highlight and shadow details.

Some highlight details may explode, but this can be avoided by exploiting the camera’s HDR mode very little and efficiently.

While our EF-S 17–85mm f / 4–5.6 ISM test lens is not the fastest Canon optics, it is good enough to demonstrate the Canon EOS 750D to solve a lot of great details.

Sharpness can be combined with parameters such as contrast, saturation, and color tone in the camera’s picture style options. Images respond well to sharpening in Photoshop, thanks to the low grain noise level.

Noise

The Canon EOS 750D has eight responsiveness settings ranging from International Organization for Standardization 100 to 12800. It can be extended to a ceiling to add high sensitivity (ISO 25600) by activating ‘ISO Expansion’ through the main menu.

he camera’s automatic ISO upper limit can also be configured with the maximum sensitivity of ISO 6400. However, the 750D sensitivity scale only changes in 1EV steps, and there is no option to increase the 1 / 3EV.

It should be noted that our first ISO test was performed with a high ISO noise reduction standard. As the system shuts down, the noise from ISO 3200 and above becomes more pronounced, although the fine details are less noticeable.

Whether you shoot with an active system and add some sharpening to the post-production, or disable the in-camera noise reduction and later apply it to yourself, very similar results will probably come.

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