Fastest EOS-M compatible lens with IS?

c_man wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

c_man wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

What are you planning to shoot? How, and with which body?

R2

Body: M6ii

I bought the body new and paired it with the 22mm lens. Having shot family indoors (although whilst getting used to i) Canon ii) the body itself, and so there is a large chance of user error) it's become apparent it may not be so sharp in these conditions.

Thanks for posting back with more info.

I think the first thing to do is make sure we're barking up the right tree. Let's do some detective work...

Is your lens sharp? Is it sharp wide open? Take it out in the sunlight and test for lens sharpness (at a high shutter speed).

If it doesn't look sharp, is the issue your in-camera image settings? Sharpening, contrast, noise reduction, picture style?

I really appreciate you taking the time out to reply at such length. Especially because I'm sure most of what you've typed, can be seen as 'boring 101 of shooting' topics for most contributors here. Thank you.

It’s really just a guide for a process of elimination.  

R2D2 wrote:

Take it out in the sunlight and test for lens sharpness (at a high shutter speed).

In the UK, the notion of sunlight translates at best to an grey overcast day ; dry if lucky :-P.

Ugh!

It was clear blue skies here… but the temp was below zero degrees (F) all day!  I may trade you!  

R2D2 wrote:

Analyze your "not so sharp" photos that you've taken before.

So, after your reply, I went outside and took some sample shots. Please ignore subject, composition, etc. - this was impromptu and between downpours...

• All shot handheld, in FV mode, my favoured mode for now, where I tend to control aperture and shutter speed, and let ISO resolve automatically accordingly. I am happy to re-do the test with specific ISO if you deem necessary.
• Shot in RAW - CR3 exported in Lightroom to JEPG without any corrections/processing to avoid giving one shot an advantage over another!
• Spot-AF used and always set to the 'OGU' of the word 'VOGUE'.

Hopefully the EXIF data shows up.

Thanks for doing the test.  We can rule out the lens being bad.

R2D2 wrote:

Shutter shock?

* Use electronic shutter.

This page indicates lenses without IS do not really suffer from shutter shock...?

https://www.canonnews.com/canon-eos-m6-mark-ii-analysis-of-shutter-shock

If you’re shots had indicated shutter shock, then we would have had to address that.  Personally I haven’t had an issue with shutter shock no matter what lens I’ve had mounted (zoom or prime).  Here are links to previous discussions…

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64549959

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65471534

I'll pause there to invite yours (and others') thoughts around the sharpness of the word 'VOGUE' in the images above.

Your lens is performing right in the middle of the bell curve.  We can rule that out as the (direct) source of the problem.

Next if you want to evaluate your problematic images for clues, and then run through the “checklist” of possibilities, we can narrow things down further.  In fact, if you’d care to post some of those photos, that’d help even more.  

R2