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How solid is the build quality?

Started Mar 24, 2017 | Questions thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: How solid is the build quality?

basis unus wrote:

I'm currently using a 1DX and would like to have a lighter APS body for telephoto lenses. I feel hesitant about the M6 because it is said to have a polycarbonate body. I'm wondering if I could use it confidently with an EF 300mm F/2.8 lens (plus adapter). I understand that I should always support the lens with such a setup. But I think one accustomed to bigger cameras may still accidentally raise the combination by only holding the camera, since the 300mm is very handholdable. Any comments and suggestions from users of other EOSM cameras are also welcomed. Thanks!

I regularly use EOS M cameras with a 300mm f/4 or a 100mm f/2, but ever since the days of film I've always held a camera with my left hand under the lens.  My 300mm kens has a broad neckstrap attached to a long Arca-Swiss tripod adapter (for better balance on a tripod head) for added security.  I hold the adapter in my left hand when it's not on a tripod and use the touchscreen release with my right as that chooses my point of focus too.

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