EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM is a Five Star-lens!

dave_bass5 wrote:

Alan Sh wrote:

Good report. I may have to spend money....

But 7000+ pictures in 24 hours? What were you doing? Assuming you actaully had the camera in your hand for 12 hours out of the 24, that's nearly 10 pictures a minute. Every minute. All day.

He's keen, ill give him that lol.

Hang on there Matey, Earlier this year I shot 2,934 shots over 3.5 hours when using the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS II USM lens on the EOS M6 (when photographing surfers on the beach) before I needed to change batteries to shoot the Moon from the side of the freeway on the way home. Try the math on that set. (Thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/60674296 ).  What was that?  13.971 shots per minute?  That's merely the press of a button for a few seconds.  If I CHIMP the shot once in a while to ensure key images were captures before moving on, I get a pretty high rate of success. My M6 is always set to High Burst Mode and I vary the number of shots each time i take a picture based on need.
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I don't shoot in RAW.  This gives me better bursts with less powerdrain, faster write times and more memory card to cram. With my city shots I then stayed up to edit images, grabbed 3.5 hours sleep and then returned to shooting again with fresh batteries.  I had my wife drive so i could shoot through the side window of my car (and just in case I fell asleep on the way back to the city).
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When testing the EF 32mm f/1.4 STM lens I took around 2200 shots in the Chinese Friendship Garden alone (mostly shooting in burst mode ). I changed tact at brunch to shoot seagulls and tried to nail their eyes with the Magnify Feature while eating a hotdog with my free hand and wave off other hungry birds. I started out with a spray-and-pray approach early in the day and ended up running through 1800+ shots in the museum due to the complexity and randomness with the plasma discharge display. Only some shots of a raven in a tree were out of focus.  I even took time to take pictures of tourists with their own cameras and I spent an hour on the phone avoiding the heat outside whilst inside the air-conditioned museum.... where I shot another 1300 shots of the Plasma Ball in action.... and then shot bursts throughout the harbor and on the freeway. I shot people walking into frame from around corners using AF tracking.  I shot people walking towards me.  Birds near boats.  Ice cream being sold and afternoon light playing on buildings reflected in the water.  I shot fountains in daylight and then shot them again when they lit up at dusk.  I shot under bridges, in hotel foyers and around the opera house. I shot people exiting a convention, walking with us back to the car, costumes, our parked car and then food over dinner. I then returned to the city and shot in the arcades, the wharf, the old part of the town and then on the quay. I shot through lunch and then into the following evening with people in costume.
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I held back to rest.  I'm pretty sure I could have racked up more if the opportunity was there.  The inside of my right palm had a slight bruise from gripping the Peak Design clip on the bottom of the camera for the entirety of the day.  And I had to cut and file the nails on my right hand right back to the skin to prevent them from cutting into the rubber on the inside of the M6 grip. Otherwise, it's 'easy peasy' to nail a few thousand shots in just a few of hours when shooting in burst mode  Even easier on a beach with a larger lens and a monopod.  I don't need to use Burst Mode but I was busy and wanted to nail as many ideal 'samples' as I could bag so that I could post up some samples right here for others to pick over when the lens was first released.