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Canon Refurb M200 - on sale

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OP Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
A 'draw' in the kit EF-M 15-45 lens lottery

Larry Rexley wrote:

B_Gardner wrote:

Larry Rexley wrote:

Canon M200 has been on sale at Canon refurbished web site for at least a few days at $350 - includes an EF-M 15-45mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM lens and free shipping. Both black and white sets appear to be in stock refurbished.

https://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/catalog/refurbished-eos-m200-ef-m-15-45mm-kit-black

Just bought one to supplement my M6ii. Thanks for the heads up!

Bob

Great! Hope you get a good 15-45 kit lens.

I sent the lens only back to Canon yesterday under the warranty service as it's decentered with a soft left edge even at f5.6. Playing the lottery again... They will likely just replace it.

I got my replacement EF-M 15-45mm kit lens yesterday, and took it on a long walk last night to put it through its paces on the M200. This is the fifth copy of this lens for me (all the others sold on eBay, some with a body).

Although this copy is not perfect, it's the best copy I have owned so far. it is very slightly de-centered, the left 15% of the frame starts to 'blur out' progressively worse towards the edge of the frame at 15mm. It's not horrible and as you zoom it gets better, almost going away by 24mm or so. There's also a slight lack of sharpness in the right side's edge and corner at 15mm wide open, but that is normal for this grade of lens and it's better than the left side.

It's about the same level of 'minor' de-centering I've seen on many EF-S and EF-M kit zooms, including the EF-S 10-18mm IS STM, EF-S 18-135mm IS STM, and EF-M 18-150mm IS STM. The only zooms I have which are perfect is the EF-M 11-22mm IS STM and the EF-S 55-250 IS STM.

Oddly, at 15mm, stopping down from f3.5 to f5.6 does not really improve the image. The right side improves a little, but the left edge and upper left corner seem to degrade. I may get 'as good' results at 15mm wide open as stopped down, this is a new one on me and perhaps a welcome change? See results below. I shot many locations and this happened in all the sets, it wasn't a one-off.

Other than that, the rendering across the frame is not bad with good micro-contrast at all focal lengths, surprisingly even at the maximum aperture at all focal lengths.

Here are some samples at full M200 24 MP resolution:

15mm, f3.5

15mm, f5.6

24mm f4.5

45mm f6.3

 Larry Rexley's gear list:Larry Rexley's gear list
Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS M200 Canon EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM +21 more
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