Ali
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Re: New M6 Mark II with some questions
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Badlagar wrote:
Hello,
this is my first post in this forum. I have been reading for a while and it is time to start sharing with you
Welcome!
I bought a second hand M6 Mark II with 15-45mm + viewfinder + Canon EF-EOS M + 3 batteries, perfect condition (with boxes, plastics...) for 680USD.
Do you think was a good price?
Seems like a good price! If you still have the budget you may want a few more lenses, another thread going on right here.
I am loving the camera and a little overwhelmed with all the settings and configurations. I have some questions regarding the camera.
I have seen there is electronic and mechanical shutter. Is there any difference shooting with electronic mode for street photography? (not high speed).
Electronic shutter will be more susceptible to camera or subject motion, and you may end up with distortions you didn't expect, beyond the blurs you may get from "normal" shake or motion. (Something I encountered some months back, for instance.)
However you do have the benefit of silent shutter... Give it a try under the conditions you want to use it with and see if it's working for you.
In terms of lifetime of the camera, is better to shoot in electronic? I think every time I use the mechanical shutter there is a degradation and can be broken after 100k shots.
I don't think it's worth worrying over unless you are really taking thousands of shots every week. I personally haven't heard of anyone's mechanical shutter breaking on their M cameras.
I don't have answers to these:
If the mechanical shutter breaks, can I continue using the camera only with electronic shutter and for video recording?
And finally, I would like to set the gps location in the photos, I was installing CameraConnect in my iPhone but I think I have to enable wifi to do this, not possible to do it with Bluetooth. Any one is doing this or can give me some tricks to have reliable GPS data?
Thank you in advance for your responses!
Enjoy the camera!