Great results with the M200, even with the kit 15-45mm lens
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I've put the M200 through its paces now, taking it out on many shoots.
I have to say I'm quite impressed with this tiny camera. For most shots the results aren't much different than my M6ii results. I have a little less latitude with cropping and perspective correction with the 24 MP sensor, but that's to be expected.
The second copy of the kit lens I got is actually fairly good, The first was badly decentered and I sent it in under warranty service to be replaced. It's very sharp across most of the frame wide open, except the leftmost 10% or so of the frame is a little soft, but this can be mostly corrected in DxO PL5 with some additional 'Edge'-only unsharp mask sharpening.
Here are some examples with the m200 with the kit lens at 15mm. Some of them have had some DxO Viewpoint perspective correction.
M200, EF-M 15-45 at 15mm, f7.1, ISO 100, 1/320s
M200, EF-M 15-45 at 15mm, f3.5, ISO 640, i/60s
M200, EF-M 15-45 at 15mm, f4, ISO 6400, 1/60s
One of the reasons I got the m200 was for the 4k cropped video --- so I could do extreme close-up planetary photography through a telescope.
It does not disappoint! I took several minutes of video of the planet Jupiter with a Meade ETX-125 1900mm focal length f15 telescope, using the m200 at prime focus with a Meade camera adapter, Canon EF T-ring, Canon EF to EOS M adapter, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter stacked with a Kiron 2x MC7 teleconverter, using the 4k cropped 24 fps cropped video.
I then ran the video through PIPP pre-processor software to convert to 'steady' cropped AVI video format, AutoStakkert to choose the highest quality 400 frames and stack them, and Registax software to deconvolute the image back to a sharp image using its wavelets. Final processing in DxO PL5. The result is approximately 900x magnification, shooting and cropping through a 5,700mm focal length f45 telescope configuration!
The image shows Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede to the left, and Ganymede's shadow cast on the planet. Jupiter was low in the East so the Earth's atmosphere caused some chromatic aberration, one side of the planet is bluish and one reddish.
Jupiter with Meade ETX-125, prime focus, Canon M200 at prime focus with Kenko 1.5x SHQ TC, Kiron 2x MC7 TC, 4k cropped video, best 400 frames stacked and processed