Canon EOS 6D

Preface

The Canon EOS (Electro-Optical System) camera was introduced in 1987 with the film-based Canon EOS 650, Canon’s first auto-focus camera. Though today’s Canon SLR cameras are digital, Canon’s current DSLR system still uses the EOS technology. The acronym EOS was chosen to honor Eos, Greek mythology’s Titan goddess of dawn, and is often pronounced as a word, although some spell out the letters, reading it as an initialism.

The Canon EOS 6D is, as of this writing, the smallest, lightest, and least expensive full-frame DSLR that Canon provides. Nonetheless, the 6D comes with a robust set of menus with which you can fine-tune the camera’s default settings, customize numerous operational parameters, perform several in-camera editing steps, ...