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Excellent, but...

Started Jun 21, 2020 | User reviews thread
thunder storm Forum Pro • Posts: 10,139
Re: Excellent, but...
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Michael Leek wrote:

Camera was bought specifically for travel. It has all the customisable features I require, including resolution, but is seriously let down by the poor quality of lenses by Canon, particularly the zoom range.

11-22 is fine, sigma 16mm is excellent, 22mm is fine, 32mm is excellent, sigma 30mm is very good,  sigma 56mm is excellent.

So, that is quite i nice lens selection, however, to your point, an as good as the M6mkII standard zoom (that is: better than the 15-45 and 18-150mm) is missing. And there are reasons it's missing:

- a good standard zoom is going to be bigger than the typical ef-m size

- if it's going to be big anyway, what not adapt ef or ef-s glass

If you want great zooms IQ on your M6mkII you should accept the weight and go with the adapted sigma f/1.8 zooms (18-35 and 50-100mm). The 32mm and 56mm primes are a tad better, but on crop cameras these zooms are beating all the other lenses in their focal range (maybe save the fulll frame sigma 85mm Art).

Canon’s hype for this camera is therefore misleading, if not downright false. This means I’m unable to write anything too positive about the camera ‘cause I’ve yet to discover its real potential for taking high quality photographs!

You can't blame a manufacturer they don't break the laws of physics. Good zooms aren't small, so there's no reason to make one specifically for the ef-m mount. Good zooms are big. If you accept big you can adapt.

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EF glass = bang for my buck

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