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M50 Mark II First Impressions

Started Oct 12, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: One small step for the M50 (Mark II)

RLight wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

RLight wrote:

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.

Very nice. Looks like you have a decent copy of the 15-45. I find it's a very useful lens when you want to go minimal. Too bad about that 22 though. Maybe see about an exchange?

I really like carrying my (M6ii) + 15-45, with hood in ready position, in the little LowePro Adventura SH 100 II on my hip, with the 22 in the handy little pocket on one side, and a couple of batts on the other side. Very minimal, but very powerful.

Regarding the (so-so) colors, what Picture Style do you have set? And I've got to tell you I REALLY love DxO's colors over DPP's. Just a nudge there.

Enjoy your M50ii. I've always said the "software upgrade" was worth it!

R2

I personally don’t care for DXOs colors; better than Adobe color, but less than native colors. Just personal taste talking.

In just about any image editing program, you can set up any custom tone curve preset you want, and apply it automatically as the images are loaded.  What Picture Style did you have set for these?

R2

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