Together these two aspects make shooting with the 6D II heaps of fun, by far the easiest landscape shooting I can remember.

One other positive change is the shift of the cable release socket to the front. This makes it easier to get to and use, though any L plates will likely have to be adjusted for the cable coming out at an angle.

Another big change is the autofocus system has had a total rework bringing it into the 21st century. It now has 45 autofocus points, every one a cross type, though these are all in the centre third of the viewfinder. The spread is (as far as I could tell) identical to the 6D but there are many more of them so the corners of that area are far better covered. The outer points are far more usable than the 6D's, doing an A/B comparison the 6D II snapped focus with any point where the 6D would hunt significantly for some. There is also a new AF button for focus point and group selection near the shutter release making it easy to switch.

Auto focus is not an area I tend to overly use but it felt like a very solid system, more so than my original 7D and something I would rely on. I didn’t get chance to track any moving subjects though (apart from the cat).

Overall performance was quite zippy, 6.5 frames a second and the buffer is much larger. I don’t often machine gun subjects but I fired at least 18 frames with my slow SD card, and it's supposed to go up to 21 frames. The 6D's buffer struggled with 6 frames, my 7 shot brackets always had the last frame taken substantially later than the preceding 6!