Canon 70D vs Canon 6D - Quick Comparison

So I've been getting a lot of questions and this one in particular is not going away. What is the difference or the main differences between the Canon 70D and the Canon 60? I think if you're a beginning photographer or if this is your first DSLR it can be a little confusing in terms of what you're getting. This is going to be a really quick review between these two cameras. If you want to see how they match up against their Nikon competitors I'll put the links here for some extensive tests I've done in my epic shootouts. The Canon 70D right now you can get it for about $1,200. The Canon 60 prices come down significantly it's about $1,600. The short answer is that if if this is your first camera or beginning if you're a beginning photographer 90% of you are just going to want to get the 70D. Before you all run out and buy it let me point out the functional differences between the two and why they're important. The first and major important difference between the two is the sensor size. When we're looking at the Canon 60 it features a full frame 35 millimeter digital sensor. Now a full frame is going to have some very key important functionality differences over a crop sensor which is found in the Canon 70D. Crop sensors are smaller and they have some differences that I'm going to point out three important key differences. The first important key difference is your field of view is what you're seeing through the viewfinder. On a full frame camera you can expect that a 50 millimeter lens is going to behave like a 50 millimeter lens. It's going to give you the equivalent focal length of a 50 millimeter field of view. If you were to take that same exact lens and put it on a crop sensor camera in this case the 70D you're going to experience a 1.6 multiplication factor on that focal length which means it's going to behave like an 80 millimeter lens and you're not going to get as wide field of views. It's a very important difference especially if you're a landscape photographer or maybe you're shooting indoor architecture or if you're shooting video inside buildings. It's going to make a really huge difference if you have that 60 and you get that wider field of view. The second huge difference when we're talking about a larger sensor size is that the overall image quality is going to be better on the 60. The actual sensors which is what generates a pixel is physically larger because they're both you got about 21 megapixels on the 60, 20 megapixels on the 70D, and so the 70D is packing more of these sensors into a tighter space and when this happens it's not able to sample as cleanly as a full frame sensor that has larger sensors. The result of this is that you would see better image quality in terms of color, dynamic range, when you start bumping up the ISO you're going to have a lot cleaner images in the 60. It's real impressive for its ISO performance so image quality is going to be better on a full frame camera. That said it's important for me to to really emphasize the image quality coming out of the 70D is still pretty dang good it's just better in the 60. Third really important key difference with a full frame sensor is that your depth of field is going to be more shallow. Essentially your recording media size comes into play when in regards to depth of field so if you have a very very large recording media you get more and more shallow depths of field. This is great if you're a portrait photographer and you like these buttery backgrounds. So sensor size with a full frame sensor you're going to get wider field of views, better image sampling, and a more shallow depth of field. Now the second huge functional difference between the two cameras is in the focusing systems themselves. The Canon 70D features an outstanding focusing system for sports shooting. 19 cross type focusing squares and in the test that I've done it was one of the highest rated sports shooting cameras I've ever used. It's that good. So if you're doing any sports shooting if you have small children that run around if you do like bird photography or animal and wildlife photography you're definitely going to want to go with the Canon 70D. Now having said that I have to recognize that the 60 has an outstanding focusing system for low light particularly its central focusing square. I was a wedding and portrait photographer for years and if I was still shooting weddings as often as I would that would be the camera I'd want simply because it can focus really well in low light. 70D is not a good low light focusing camera so these are very important differences between the focusing systems. Can the 60 shoot sports? Yeah but it's not that great it struggles a little bit. Now the third key difference between these two cameras is that you're getting a lot more bells and whistles on the 70D. The 60 has built-in GPS which is nice if that's your thing. They both have wi-fi but when we look at all the other bells and whistles the 70D has things like the articulating touchscreen monitor which is really nice. You have a built-in flash and wireless transmitter for the flash systems also really nice. You have the dual pixel focusing for live view video recording really nice if you do a lot of video shooting. Wow it's just it's a beautiful camera. So in summary who is the Canon 70D for? Pretty much if you're a first-time shooter, if you have kids, if you're a sports photographer, if you do wildlife shooting, if you do any kind of photography where you need extra reach or you're interested in a really good general purpose camera like if I was going on a vacation that's probably the camera I would grab. If you do anything that has to do with wide-angle field of views such as landscape type shots, HDR, if you're doing portrait work, if you shoot weddings, events, street photographers, underwater photographers are you're all going to want to go with the 60 it's better because you get that wider field of view and higher image quality. Again if you want to see the extensive tests that I did on both of these cameras I'll put the link in here. Whichever camera you decide to get just know that I have excellent crash courses on both cameras. I take 11 years of experience and cram it in to about a four hour lesson specifically on how to use your camera. I'm going to show you how to shoot like a pro in no time and you can order them from the following links.