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M5 vs. M50?

Started May 21, 2018 | Questions thread
Wayne Larmon Forum Pro • Posts: 10,694
M50 and CR3 support
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ex human wrote:

I'm considering one of these due to the compactness and recent price drops. I'm not really clear on what differentiates these two. They seem very similar in design, features, and pricing. If anyone has a quick answer I'd be much obliged.

The M50 uses the new CR3 format for raw files. Adobe supports it, but not much else does at this point. If you live in Lightroom this is probably a moot point.

But I don't use Lightroom. I use CC 2018 ACR/Photoshop and depend on Windows Explorer and other image viewers to navigate/cull images so this is a Big Deal for me. Right now I'm punting by shooting raw+JPEG and using the JPEG to identify the CR3 file I want to edit. But this is clumsy.

Otherwise, the M50 is great. I'm planning on eBaying my M6. (I have an original M that I'm keeping.) The M50 has about a stop better low light AF performance. The 15-45mm kit lens can't autofocus at all in dim light on my M6 in the 35-45mm range where it goes from f/5.6 to f6.3. (I think the M5 is the same as the M6 for this.) The M50 can. I love the M50's twistable LCD (the M6's LCD only tilts. The M50 supports tethered shooting with EOS Utility (even though I am having glitches with it right now on Win 10). The M6 and M5 don't support tethering.

Wayne

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