nnowak
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Re: M50 Mark II First Impressions
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 I shoot in landscape orientation 99.9% of the time.
Is that a personal choice, or possibly a limitation imposed by your current hardware? Personally, I have found myself shooting portrait orientation more often on some cameras versus others because of hardware/ergonomic differences.
I find the tilting screen so much faster and easier to extend and fold back even with one hand.
That is the beauty of the dual axis tilt screens from Fuji, Panasonic, and Nikon. In landscape orientation, they tilt up exactly the same as your M6. However, there is a second hinge that allows the screen to also tilt sideways towards your right hand for use when shooting in portrait orientation. It works great when you are photographing young kids and want to get the camera lower to the ground.
I might have a different opinion if I did commercial photography.
I think Canon's traditional tilt-swivel design is probably the best option for shooting video, but I agree it can be cumbersome for photos.