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M50 Mark II First Impressions

Started Oct 12, 2021 | Discussions thread
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One small step for the M50 (Mark II)
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It ended up in the wife's diaper bag... The last time a camera ended up in the wife's diaper bag that wasn't an iPhone, was the Nikon J series.

In other news, the M50 Mark II + 15-45 did Charleston, charming place (again; last time was with Golaith aka EOS R + RF 28-70 f/2L) Battery life held up fine.

The 22 pancake didn't see much action. I think I may have a bad copy, I haven't been posting shots of it due to it's poor performance, even with DLO application. I was quite impressed with the 22 on my former M6 Mark II. Dunno if it's the M6 Mark II is a better platform for it (it is IMO), or what if it's a poor copy or what the deal is. It's probably going back but I'm not in any rush.

For as much as I harped on Canon when they did the firmware-only upgrade of the M50 Mark II, I'm beginning to agree with them; having excellent autofocus (and advanced metering) is important. And the form factor of the M50 is just right. And for the target audience's budget etc, it's a win all around. Sometimes it's easy to overlook the obvious that the original M50 is a solid camera and anything added to it is icing on the cake.

Apologies for lack of samples from Charleston, I just opened DPP4 on my older MacBook that I'm typing it on, it's just no match unless I have patience which I don't have the time this morning. My newer MacBook is bricked; courtesy of Apple's EFI/OS concurrence. That's a VERY technical discussion regarding how Apple protects things with Netboot / signature trusts / EFI. It peeves me though as Apple essentially locked the door and threw away the key as they don't want you running older OSes (Mojave). Anyhow, more samples later I guess.

SOOC, Small JPEG. These could use some love when my main computer is back online; default NR, really can wash out colors at non-base ISO. Post-processing is always better in terms of ultimate image quality.

 RLight's gear list:RLight's gear list
Canon EOS R3 Canon EOS R50 Canon RF 28-70mm F2L USM Canon RF-S 18-45mm Canon RF-S 55-210mm F5.0-7.1 IS STM
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