How to Set Up the Canon R6 II for Wildlife Photography (Tutorial)

In this video I want to show you how I configured the Canon R6 II camera. It's all about menu settings (especially autofocus), button assignments and more. These settings have worked well for me in bird photography (and wildlife photography) in general.
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[@FabianFoppNaturephotography]

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[@craigcarlson4022]

Setting up my new R6ii. I too am NOT a fan of back button focus. I like the way you set up your buttons. Thanks for taking the time to talk us through all these settings!

[@FabianFoppNaturephotography]

Happy to hear that

[@charlotterogers8733]

Ok watching this video again because I gave up on the other TH-camrs because I cannot do BBf because of my thumb can’t continuously hold down a button while I stretch my small hand to reach the shutter button. I’ll try your setup, thanks !

[@cindyoneil6305]

I would love to be able to switch from taking a stationary bird to one that instantly goes into flight with a touch of a button. In your tutorial, under customize buttons, AE Lock, you choose a camera with two arrows next to the star. My R6 11, does not have the camera with two arrows. What would you suggest?

[@FabianFoppNaturephotography]

I think you misunderstood. The camera with the arrows is the function that you assign to the AE Lock button. It’s not a button itself

[@alexkaze9561]

Hi Fabian
Thank you so much for this video. I tried many settings including the back button focus and seriously think your settings makes the most sense. One thing I notice was the manual focus override. With other setting I was able to turn my manual focus ring when not pressing any button and it will fine tune the focus in and out as I turn it. This is very helpful if both the subject detection and single point are failing. However I don't know in your settings where I can turn that on? When I turn the manual focusing ring nothing is happening. Did I miss anything?

[@FabianFoppNaturephotography]

With which lens is this? With some lenses it unfortunately only works with back button focus (no idea why though)

[@alexkaze9561]

​@@FabianFoppNaturephotographyboth the rf 70-200 f2.8 and rf 600mm f11

[@davidbarr9475]

Great job Fabian. I shoot the r6mk2 with ef 100mm to 400mm version 2 adapted. I find that when shooting birds in flight and the trees and brush along the shoreline is just behind the predator bird eye tracking is a freaking nightmare. And sometimes just trying to use regular spot focus even staying on subject results in soft images. Alot of the time. Frustrating!!

[@FabianFoppNaturephotography]

I never had these issues. But in most scenarios I shoot, there is a lot of distance between the bird and the background