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M50 Mark II First Impressions

Started Oct 12, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: M50 Mark II First Impressions
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MAC wrote:

RLight wrote:

MAC wrote:

Alexis wrote:

23speaker23 wrote:

nnowak wrote:

23speaker23 wrote:

Thanks for a very thorough write-up.

One thing I certainly find odd is your opinion on the fully articulating screen. I personally find the tilting screen of the m6 is the way to go for my use cases. That being child/people photography.

That is exactly the use case where I hate a standard tilt screen. They are utterly worthless when shooting in portrait orientation.

I find it way faster and easier to adjust the tilting screen than the fully articulating screen.

While the fully articulating screen is slow to deploy, I would usually just leave it flipped out and then could easily switch between landscape and portrait orientation. However, my favorite, and the fastest option, is the dual axis tilt used on some Fuji, Panasonic, and Nikon bodies.

I guess we are all different

Exactly. The tilting screen is the 2nd reason I have not bought the M6ii - the first is the missing EVF. The articulating screen is a godsend for me.....

sounds like m50II is in your future vs m6II

RLight finally has a light carry that is worthy to start. His photos to start look good from this new tool. Even that 15-45 looks pretty good on this camera with EFCS.

now he should get the portrait primes in the portrait sweet spots since this is a theme of much of his shooting with the light carry

he needs to get the 32, 56 -- the portrait combo -- in the portrait sweet spots -- for the portrait theme of his 70% shooting

I think I convinced him to take action on his 70 % light carry shooting with the M50II versus 30% R and 28-70 shooting. Now the 70% shooting needs to use the right lenses for the theme that he is shooting - the 32 and 56 which are in the portrait sweet spot range and have the dreamy bokeh

heck, if I were him, I'd sell the R and 28-70 and go all in with the light carry, even getting a second body. The 32 and 56, with two bodies, combined with dxo, PL4, comes close to his FF but a lot lighter. just my 2 cents

I shoot in landscape orientation 99.9% of the time. I find the tilting screen so much faster and easier to extend and fold back even with one hand.

I might have a different opinion if I did commercial photography.

I’m thinking 15-45, 55-200, 11-22.

I’ve got the 22 right now, it’s actually not impressive.

Thinking R for DOF/low light, M for reach in both directions.

I just evaluated shutter shock for some of my lenses on the m6II

Shutter shock is real on the m6II for cheap light weight IS lenses

My 55-250 IS STM showed shutter shock at ss 1/60 and 1/80 at 250 mm

My 100L, heavier and much better IS system, showed no such shutter shock throughout 1/60, 1/80, etc

So as I advised you before, I think you were wise to go with the M50II that has EFCS (the M6II doesn't have EFCS) for these light weight zooms with IS for a great price!

And now that I think about it, in the sunlight I love my m6II since I can shoot e-shutter ss 1/16,000 without ND filters and that would be a problem for the M50II without e-shutter.

Also, it is not surprising on the 22 -- I've thought about it but will end up not doing it.

So I think you are on the right track. That said -- the m32 is amazing. Some like me buy the m for this one lens to shoot f1.4.

in my case, I think I'm not going to buy many more lenses for the m. The 28 is short and have to get too close. The 11-22 might get my purchase, but again shutter shock for my m6II at 22 mm would likely be an issue for me. Well -- it comes down to maybe the laowa 9 mm might get a buy from me although it is $500. Anyway -- I think you made the right purchase and are now on the right track. Congrats!

For the car show my 22MM beats my 32MM.

My 22MM stopped down to f5.6 will get the whole car in focus and be very sharp.

The performance for that tiny lens is very impressive to me.

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