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EOS M5 officially discontinued

Started Aug 26, 2020 | Discussions thread
nnowak Veteran Member • Posts: 9,075
Re: M50? M50 II?

quiquae wrote:

nnowak wrote:

justmeMN wrote:

RLight wrote:

What the rumors don't say is what sensor will be in it. I'd bet my lunch the M6 II sensor is...

(M50 II) I'm not placing any bets on that one. The T8i/850D only got the 24MP sensor.

Agreed. Aside from the crazy high USA launch price, the M50 has been targeted at a much lower tier than the T8i/850D/X10i. The M50 appears to be positioned much closer to the cheaper SL3/250D/Kiss X10. Basically, the M50 targets the entry level consumer that wants an EVF.

I don’t believe this is the case. The Japanese marketing name “EOS Kiss M” is a pretty good indication that Canon considers this body the rightful heir to the mainline Kiss (Rebel) series. (To date, the M50 is the first and only mirrorless camera to bear the Kiss name.) The ultracompact Rebel SL series seems to be more akin to the M100-M200 series, which is clearly aimed below the M50.

Guess what they call the Rebel SL3 in Japan.... The Kiss X10.  The Rebel 8Ti is the Kiss X10i.  The use of the "Kiss" moniker is not a defining difference.

It would be nice if the rumored M50 mark II gets the 32MP sensor from M6 mark II, but it would not surprise me if they use the old 24MP sensor again. Looking at history, it took the Rebel line until 2017 to get a DPAF sensor, a full four years after it first appeared on the 70D.

And the M series got its first DPAF sensor only a year earlier in 2016, a few months after debuting the sensor in the 80D.  The difference in timing appears to mostly due to different upgrade cycles.  The TXi Rebel series got an upgrade in 2015, skipped 2016, and was upgraded again in 2017.

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