Re: M5 owners, (and 18-150 ones) please chime in.
PhotoKhan wrote:
So, after pondering for some weeks about the M6 and the M5 I finally went with the M5 and bought the kit with the 18-150.
I am struggling with some problems here and would like to know if you guys had to adapt to similar performance.
1. My M5 clearly and consistently underexposes by about 0.5EV in Evaluative Metering. Anyone else with this problem?
Have you tried using the Histogram and shoot according to that? Don't base mine on the meter, only histogram...
2. The camera keeps waking up from sleep mode with the slightest move. I brought it along for some tests in a work day and when I finally got it out of my flight case, the battery was completely depleted on account of this. Is there any way to switch this “auto-awake” off?
Some people like this, some don't. If the camera didn't do that, you'd have people complaining about the wake up time from sleep..
3. The M3 had a limitation in which an EF lens featuring IS and used with the adapter wouldn’t turn the IS OFF, once it had been activated, just keep it running indefinitely. It had to be switched-off for the IS to stop working. The M5 seems even more problematic in this regard since the IS fires on as soon has the camera is turned on, so there’s not even the work-around of using the “ON/OFF” camera switching to, at least, spare the battery until the IS is first used. This in an big battery draining problem.
I always have IS turned off on EF lenses and never had a problem...
4. The 18-150 is proving to be much more limited, optically-wise, than the reviews would indicate. Going in, I already knew it wouldn’t be anything to write home about but it seems even more limited. For instance, not even the profile correction in LR seems able to fully correct the vignetting at the long end. After the correction it is still pretty obvious. How do yours perform?
I shoot mainly primes, except for my f4 FF zooms.
I am now considering several options:
1. Return the camera + the lens.
Could exchange it instead of returning.
2. Just return the lens and have the camera tweaked in what regards to EV by Canon, with whom I have a great, almost personal, support relation.
If it's part of the kit, I can't see how you can just return the lens..
3. Pending on concurring reports from you guys, keep everything and just assume the 18-150 is extremely limited and have always in mind that metering need EC.
Would love to hear some inputs about this from fellow owners of both the camera and the lens.
Thanks.
PK
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