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Parting Ways with the M6ii

Started Oct 15, 2021 | Discussions thread
Larawanista
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Re: Parting Ways with the M6ii

R2D2 wrote:

Larawanista wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

Larawanista wrote:

I am in general parting ways with my M6 Mark II and all lenses...

It sounds like you've made a well-reasoned decision.

Nearly all of my paid gigs (a passive but lucrative source of income for me) is now leaning towards corporate portrait and product photography, for which the RF system again is superior.

It's a natural move for any photographer shooting more and more paid gigs, IMHO.

FF mirrorless can definitely give you more options and more capabilities.

On the personal fr

ont, my priority is family travel photography as we are now able to resume some degree of domestic travel and likely some foreign travel by the next quarter of next year. This means mirrorless FF assures me of “no-hassle” photography under any lighting condition (as we love visiting night markets to feast on street food).

Here is where the vast majority of experienced travelers prefer a much more compact (and less expensive/intrusive) system. I really don't see anything that the M6ii + DxO couldn't deliver on (hey, now I'm sounding a lot like MAC! )

The grass is much, much greener with my R6 and the just ordered 50mm 1.2 😁

A great pairing! Before you posted this I was going to advise you to not rely too heavily on the (cheapo) RF 50 f/1.8 for serious stuff... I have one.

Good luck with your new roadmap, and be sure to stop back whenever you can!

R2

Thank you.

It’s all a matter of “different strokes.” You’ve got your faves, and everyone else has theirs. Getting the evaluation process right is important.

It's part of the reason I liked and eventually disliked the images from M6ii. I did the math on amount of resources, including time, consumed on running raw files on DxO PureRaw. While it does not freeze my desktop (far from), it still is responsible for higher power consumption. And it still means working on the DNG files later.

That’s why I think you should have gone with DxO’s (full suite) Photolab 4. It’s an excellent image editor in its own right, and you wouldn’t have to output to an intermediate DNG if you didn’t want.

More and more I’ve been able to skip the (follow-up) Photoshop “step,” and just use the jpegs right out of PL4. It’s been a game changer for me. Not to mention the benefits of Deep Prime.

Plus I’m baffled why it takes overnight for your computer to convert the files. Maybe you’re just starting a batch and then going to bed (that way it doesn’t waste your time).

Portability is of course still slightly to the M series camp. But the RP with 50mm 1.8 isn't that bad in terms of portability as well,

“Not that bad” (RP), and “Excellent” (M6ii) are on 2 different levels.

https://camerasize.com/compare/#815,829

I can shoot up to ISO6400 without having to run the file on DxO PureRaw afterwards. That is not doable with the M6ii, not even with the 1.4 lenses.

With Deep Prime you can!

I would HIGHLY recommend finding a way to fit DxO Photolab 4 into your workflow, no matter what camera you’re shooting. If you think Deep Prime is amazing with the M6ii, just wait until you see what it does with those big beautiful FF files!! Just saying…

And BTW, beautiful photo of the wind turbines. Those gotta be bringing your cost per KWH down!

R2

I've been using Deep Prime for about three months now. And yes, it's amazing. I've run my RP raw files through it and the results are also good. Deep Prime does more wonder on M6ii raw files.

You're right about my overnight comment - that I just prefer to batch process all raw files in the memory card as soon as I transfer them to my SSD storage.

See you around R2!

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